This is Beirut, 19/01 14:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Millions of TikTok users were blocked from accessing the popular app in the United States as a national ban came into effect Sunday, with incoming president Donald Trump unable to intervene until he takes office. TikTok, removed from prominent app stores hours before the ban, said in a message to users attempting to log on that a "law banning ...
This is Beirut, 17/01 21:27 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The US Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that could force TikTok to shut down in the United States, potentially cutting off the app's 170 million users within days. The unanimous ruling, which found the law does not violate free speech rights, dealt a major blow to TikTok and created uncertainty about what will happen when the ban ...
This is Beirut, 17/01 17:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping held phone talks Friday with US president-elect Donald Trump, Chinese state media reported. CCTV said the phone call happened "on the evening of January 17", without providing any immediate further details. Earlier on Friday, China announced Xi would send Vice President Han Zheng to attend Trump's inauguration next ...
This is Beirut, 14/01 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Serenity and calm are not typically the first words that come to mind when describing Donald Trump. Yet, in a Chinese artisan's workshop, the former U.S. president sits cross-legged in a divine meditation pose. This porcelain version of the Republican billionaire, transformed into a Buddha, is the work of designer and sculptor Hong Jinshi. These ...
This is Beirut, 10/01 22:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The US Supreme Court appeared likely on Friday to uphold a law that would force TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to sell the wildly popular online video-sharing platform or shut it down. A majority of the conservative and liberal justices on the nine-member bench appeared skeptical of arguments by a lawyer for TikTok that forcing a sale was a ...
This is Beirut, 07/01 16:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A devastating earthquake in China's remote Tibet region killed at least 126 people and destroyed "many buildings" on Tuesday, state media reported, with tremors also felt in neighboring Nepal's capital Kathmandu and parts of India. Videos published by China's state broadcaster CCTV showed houses destroyed with walls torn ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-31 11:16 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Beijing on Tuesday hit back at accusations that a China state-sponsored actor was behind a cyber breach at the US Treasury Department, calling the claims "groundless". The Treasury said the attack resulted in access to some of its workstations, according to a letter to Congress seen by AFP. According to the Treasury, the incident ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-31 10:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to promote "world peace" in a New Year's message to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, state media reported on Tuesday. "No matter how the international situation changes, China will remain steadfast in further comprehensively deepening reform... and promoting world peace and development," Xi said, ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-28 11:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The top diplomats of China and Iran agreed Saturday that the Middle East is "not a battleground for the big powers" and should not be an arena of geopolitical competition between countries outside the region. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi agreed that "the international community should respect the ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-29 17:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Lithuania announced on Friday that it was expelling three staff members of the Chinese embassy, as relations between the Baltic nation and Beijing deteriorate over Lithuania’s support for Taiwan and the suspected involvement of a Chinese ship in the damage to undersea telecommunications cables. Earlier this month, two Baltic Sea ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-26 12:04 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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US President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he intends to impose sweeping tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada and China, prompting a swift warning from Beijing that "no one will win a trade war." In a series of posts to his Truth Social account, Trump vowed to hit some of the United States' largest trading partners with duties on all goods ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-25 11:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The United States is drawing up contingency plans for military deployments in Japan and the Philippines in case of an emergency over Taiwan, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported. They will be incorporated in a first joint operation plan to be formulated in December, Kyodo reported late Sunday, citing sources familiar with Japan-US relations. A US ...