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August 1834, The Guardian: Negro emancipation(theguardian.com)
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Throughout the British dominions the sun no longer rises on a slave. Yesterday was the day from which the emancipation of all our slave population commences; and we trust the great change by which they are elevated to the rank of freemen wi
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Who to blame for the Covid-19 pandemic (Journal of Global Health)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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... That is why I predict that in the coming decades we will continue to be exposed to the dangers of pandemics and that in time something even more dangerous and devastating than the seventh coronavirus could hit us. Thus, even when scienc
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by abbassi 5y ago
It is ridiculous to make up a story about sterilization with no evidence. It reminds me of anti-Semitic campaign by Nazis.
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I am not a Chinese or a Chinese asset! Stop smear campaigns! You are fed with thousands of propaganda each day from US or EU side. Don't talk about Human Rights, or even transparency, I know Julian Assange!
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Why Fort Detrick lab should be investigated for global Covid-19 origins tracing(globaltimes.cn)
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The lab-leak theory, that COVID-19 was leaked from a laboratory, has once again caused a clamor since the beginning of this year, months after the argument was thrown into the trash can of conspiracy theories by an overwhelming number of sc
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China is deeply concerned about Australia's serious human rights violations, a Chinese diplomat has said at the ongoing 47th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
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Chinese diplomat voices concern over Australia's human rights violations(youtube.com)
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Kishore Mahbubani: What Happens When China Becomes Number One? [video](youtube.com)
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Kishore Mahbubani (born 24 October 1948) is a Singaporean civil servant, a career diplomat and an academic. During his stint at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1971 to 2004, he served as Singapore's Permanent Representative to the
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New vaccine blocks Covid-19 and variants, plus other Coronaviruses(medschool.duke.edu)
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A potential new vaccine developed by members of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute has proven effective in protecting monkeys and mice from a variety of coronavirus infections -- including SARS-CoV-2 as well as the original SARS-CoV-1 and rel
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Mỹ Lai Massacre(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Mỹ Lai massacre (/ˌmiːˈlaɪ/; Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tʰâːm ʂǎːt mǐˀ lāːj]) was the mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in Sơn Tịnh District, South Vietnam, on March 16, 1968 during the Vietnam
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The World Wildlife Fund for Nature’s Poaching War Is Killing Innocent People(youtube.com)
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The World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) works directly with paramilitary forces to fight poaching across Africa and Asia.
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A Chinese cartoonist’s political satire, which mocked the Group of Seven (G7) members that attempt to suppress China, went viral on Chinese social media on Sunday, when the G7 summit was underway in Cornwall, the UK. Titled The Last G7, the
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China is a democracy by Lincoln's definition: former Singaporean FM(globaltimes.cn)
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As tensions between China and the West continue to heat up, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has become the target of myriad attacks of the US-led Western countries. George Yeo, former Singaporean minister of foreign affairs, thinks this
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Scientists close to Wuhan virus lab break silence, push away latest conspiracies(globaltimes.cn)
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As the debate surrounding the origins of the COVID-19 virus has long branched out as Western politicians and media's muzzle of China-bashing, and individuals' tool to gain personal fame, Chinese and foreign scientists who buried t
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But you are comparing an old empire like French with a nation that just gain its independence less than a century ago. If you update your statistics 20 years from now, you will be surprised.
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The Unstoppable Growth of China's High-Speed Rail Network [VIDEO](youtube.com)
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China: 37,900 km USA: 301 km UK: 1,814 km Germany: 1,885 km Japan: 2,764 km
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The 590k lives lost are not just numbers- What happened to US Covid response?(globaltimes.cn)
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In the global fight against COVID-19, the US, the world's largest economy with strong capabilities in scientific research and industrial production, and a self-proclaimed "beacon of democracy," has shocked the world with its
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An apparent global outage has hit major websites like Amazon, Target, CNN, Reddit, Twitch and a host of the internet’s other most popular sites Tuesday morning.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9 To the Editor — Since the first reports of novel pneumonia (COVID-19) in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, there has been considerable discussion on the origin of the causa

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