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Taiwan will not bow to pressure from China and will defend its democratic way of life, President Tsai Ing-wen has said in a defiant speech amid heightened tensions over the island.
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Armed forces personnel will begin delivering petrol to garages across the UK from Monday, the government says.
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The jury has retired in R. Kelly’s sex trafficking trial in New York, after a month of testimony regarding the star’s alleged sexual abuse of men, women, and underage girls.
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China’s central bank has announced that all transactions of cryptocurrencies are illegal, effectively banning digital tokens such as Bitcoin.
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A Chinese technology executive held in Canada on US fraud charges has left the country after a deal with prosecutors, following years of diplomatic tensions over her fate.
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Consumers should throw away their Chinese phones and avoid buying new ones, Lithuania’s Defence Ministry has warned.
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France’s defence minister has cancelled talks with her UK counterpart amid the row prompted by a new security deal between Britain, the US and Australia.
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Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in El Salvador, angry at the introduction of Bitcoin as its legal tender.
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An experiment that hung rhinoceroses upside down to see what effect it had on the animals has been awarded one of this year’s Ig Nobel prizes.
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German footballer Jerome Boateng has been found guilty of assaulting his ex-girlfriend, and has been ordered to pay a 1.8m euro (£1.5m) fine.
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