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First Amendment Law Firm Recruiting TikTok Creators To Challenge Possible Ban: Report
TikTok has already announced it is planning legal action against the divestiture bill recently signed by President Joe Biden.
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Vietnam National Assembly head resigns amid graft purge
The head of Vietnam's National Assembly has resigned, the ruling Communist Party said Friday, one of the most senior leaders to fall in a sweeping anti-corruption purge.Hue was one of Vietnam's four most powerful leaders as head of the one-party state's rubber-stamp national assembly.
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Xi tells Blinken US, China should be 'partners, not rivals'
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday told top US diplomat Antony Blinken that the world's biggest economies should be "partners, not rivals" as the two sides pressed for headway on a range of concerns. "The two countries should be partners, not rivals," Xi said.
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VideoBlinken meets with China's Xi in Beijing
STORY: Earlier on Friday, Blinken held talks with China's top diplomat Wang Yi in Beijing, the latest high-level contact between the countries that have reduced the acrimony that pushed ties to historic lows last year.Blinken arrived in Beijing on Thursday (April 25) from Shanghai, where he urged China to provide a level playing field for U.S. businesses.
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VideoTeam from Gaza mediator Egypt heads to Israel: source
A delegation from mediator Egypt is travelling to Israel on Friday, a source close to the Israeli government told AFP, in what local media said is a bid to reignite stalled hostage-release negotiations.The effort comes alongside preparations for a military push against Hamas militants in southern Gaza's Rafah, and with spillover from the Gaza war leading to stepped-up exchanges of fire over Israel's northern border with Lebanon.Israel's army on Friday said missile fire near that border killed an
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VideoCalls for mosque demolition weigh on India's Muslim voters
Muslim teacher Tasleem Qureshi's walk to the polls on Friday took her past the yellow barricades and police cordon guarding her local mosque -- a looming flashpoint in India's religious divide.Her hometown Mathura is the site of the Shahi Idgah, an Islamic house of worship that the Hindu faithful believe was built over the birthplace of the deity Krishna.Hindu activists want to "reclaim" the site in a campaign endorsed by members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (B
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Heatstroke kills 30 in Thailand this year as Southeast Asia bakes
Millions of people across South and Southeast Asia sweltered through unusually hot weather on Thursday, as the Thai government said heatstroke has already killed at least 30 people this year.April is typically the hottest time of the year in Thailand and other countries in Southeast Asia but conditions this year have been exacerbated by the El Nino weather pattern.
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