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Hong Kong’s zero-tolerance approach to Covid-19 could keep the Asian financial hub cut off from most of the world until 2024 and fuel a large-scale exodus of international workers and executives, according to a draft report by the European Chamber

Guterres says he’s deeply disturbed by ‘oldest form of hate and prejudice’ rising again; Schneier against anti-vaxxers: Wearing yellow star after 1945 ‘is sign of vicious hatred’

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(BANGKOK) — Thailand on Tuesday became the first country in Asia to approve the de facto decriminalization of marijuana, though authorities have left a grey area around its recreational use. Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul announced that the Narcotics Control Board

Washington and allies worry potential economic and political sanctions over military buildup could lead to Moscow stopping deliveries to continent at height of winter

Navalny and eight of his allies — including top aides Lyubov Sobol and Georgy Alburov — were on Tuesday added to the registry by Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service. (Image credit: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)

As the first day of the new year dawned in New Delhi, I woke to find that I had been put up for auction on the Internet. There it was: a photograph of me with the words “Your Bulli Bai

After adopting bitcoin as national currency, the Central American country plans to issue bonds backed by bitcoin as negotiations with the IMF stall.

Mariupol, a port city near the front line with a breakaway region, preserves some scars of earlier fighting but has added parks and restaurants.

American forces are fighting the Islamic State for control of a prison in northeastern Syria, in the most substantial military engagement with ISIS since it lost the last of its territory in 2019.