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Foreign embassies in Beijing have been asked by the Chinese government to avoid displaying propaganda in an apparent response to shows of support for Ukraine.Chinese leader Xi Jinping's government says it is neutral in Moscow's 15-month-old invasion of Ukraine but has repeated Russian justifications for the attack, accusing the U.S. and NATO of provoking Moscow.

From a young age, the activist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was known to embrace an agenda that espoused workers' and women's rights.Ms. Flynn gave her first political speech in 1906, when she was 15, and went on to become a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, an organizer at the International Workers of the World union and, eventually, a leader of the Communist Party of the United States.

TAIPEI, Taiwan Taiwan's former president, Ma Ying-jeou, will be setting off on Monday for the first visit to China by any sitting or former Taiwanese leader since China's civil war ended with the Nationalist government retreating to the island from the mainland in 1949.Though the 12-day visit by Mr. Ma, who was president from 2008 to 2016, is unofficial, it is likely to be watched closely at home and abroad for clues on how Beijing might seek to influence Taiwan, its democratic neighbor, ahead of a presidential election in January.

Is TikTok's time up?That's the question coursing through the halls of Congress, Wall Street, and the public writ large after the social media company's chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, waffled for hours before US lawmakers on Thursday.TikTok's fate in the US is on shakier ground than ever following lawmakers' grueling questioning of Chew, Insider Intelligence principal analyst Jasmine Enberg said.

French President Emmanuel Macron is looking to "calm things down" after his government barely survived a no-confidence motion over an unpopular pension reform.Mr Macron does not plan any reshuffle or snap elections and has ruled out withdrawing the pension law, which will raise the retirement age by two years to 64, according to a source who took part in meetings between Mr Macron and key allies on Tuesday.

CBC projects NDP candidate Sarah Jama, 28, to be the next MPP for Hamilton Centre.Jama, a disability and housing activist, maintained a strong lead over the Liberals's Deirdre Pike, with 38 out of 53 polls counted.The byelection was held to replace former Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath, who stepped down as MPP in the summer to run for mayor.

A Twitter page of Chinese exiled businessman Guo Wengui is seen on a computer screen in Beijing on Aug. 30, 2017.The self-exiled Chinese businessman was arrested Wednesday in New York on charges that he oversaw a billion-dollar fraud conspiracy.Andy Wong/AP NEW YORK A business tycoon long sought by the government of China and known for cultivating ties to Trump administration figures including Steve Bannon was arrested Wednesday in New York on charges that he oversaw a $1 billion fraud conspiracy.

Former prime minister Liz Truss has made a personal plea for Rishi Sunak to brand China as a "threat" to UK security during a visit to Taiwan.The ex-prime minister challenged Mr Sunak to deliver on pledges he made last summer to clamp down on China.Ms Truss made the speech in Taipei City on Wednesday, making her the first former prime minister to visit Taiwan since Margaret Thatcher.

Liz Truss's trip to Taiwan this week is a dangerous political stunt, the Chinese embassy in London has said, as the former prime minister prepares to call on Rishi Sunak to declare Beijing a threat to UK security.She is expected to use a speech in Taipei City on Wednesday to challenge the prime minister to deliver on his rhetoric during last summer's Conservative party leadership contest, when he declared China the biggest-long term threat to Britain.

Czech labor unions on Wednesday joined with opposition parties to protest the government's proposed bid to raise the retirement age by four years to 68.Some 2,000 protesters gathered Wednesday in front of government offices in the capital Prague to voice their opposition to the plan.We definitely don't agree, read a letter ratified at the gathering.

Downing Street said the decision to ban TikTok from Government phones was a prudent and proportionate step after China criticised the app abolition.Cabinet Office minister Oliver Dowden on Thursday announced the ban citing fears over the protection of sensitive UK Government data.It means users of Government-issued devices, bar officials given specific exemptions, will be prohibited from using the popular video-sharing application.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails TikTok could be fully banned in the UK, the security minister has suggested.The app has faced a range of bans in countries across the world, including the US and Europe, where it has been banned from official devices.

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The security minister has not ruled out imposing a ban on TikTok in the UK over security fears about the Chinese-owned app.Tom Tugendhat said on Tuesday he is awaiting a review from the National Cyber Security Centre before deciding on the hugely important question.

Former prime minister Liz Truss will visit Taiwan next week to give a speech to show solidarity with the self-governed island in the face of increasingly aggressive behaviour from China.Ms Truss is also expected to meet Taiwanese government officials during the trip.During her time as prime minister Ms Truss was widely expected to move the UK Government on to a more hawkish footing when it came to dealings with Beijing, wanting to declare China under Communist Party rule a threat to national security.

The Foreign Secretary said he broached areas of deep disagreement during a meeting with the Chinese vice-president in London.James Cleverly said he made plain the UK's position on Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Taiwan during talks on Friday with Han Zheng ahead of the coronation.The Chinese politician, who has been blamed for overseeing a crackdown on freedom in Hong Kong, was recently appointed as President Xi Jinping's deputy and is set to represent China at the royal event on Saturday.

Members of far-right group "Comite du 9 Mai" (committee of May 9) gather to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the death of Sebastien Deyzieu of the "Oeuvre Francaise" ultranationist group, during a rally in Paris, on May 6, 2023.Emmanuel Dunand, AFP The Paris police force and France's interior minister faced questions and criticism Monday over why a march of around 600 neo-Nazis through the streets of the capital was authorised at the weekend.

Cities across China also scrambling to install hospital beds and build fever-screening clinics amid a widening COVID-19 outbreak.Crematoriums in cities across China are straining to deal with an influx of bodies amid a widening COVID-19 outbreak, according to media reports, as authorities scrambled to install hospital beds and build fever-screening clinics.

Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington said Sunday that TikTok represents an immediate threat from China and called for the short-form video app to be banned in the US.The chairwoman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee said on CNN's State of the Union that Congress should pass a data privacy law and ban TikTok in the US after the company's CEO Shou Chew testified in front of her committee on Thursday.

Greater London Authority has banned TikTok from all London City Hall devices in the latest ban on Chinese-owned app (Image: PA) Staff at London City Hall will no longer have TikTok on their devices in the latest ban imposed on the Chinese-owned social media app over security concerns.It comes as the Greater London Authority (GLA) said the rule was implemented as it takes information security extremely seriously.

L ondon City Hall staff will no longer have TikTok on their devices in the latest ban imposed on the Chinese-owned social media app over security concerns.The Greater London Authority (GLA) said the rule was implemented as it takes information security extremely seriously.It comes after the UK Government banned ministers from using the video-sharing app on their work phones following a security review.

London City Hall staff will no longer have TikTok on their devices in the latest ban imposed on the Chinese-owned social media app over security concerns.The Greater London authority (GLA) said the rule was implemented as it takes information security extremely seriously.It comes after the UK government banned ministers from using the video-sharing app on their work phones after a security review.

London City Hall staff will no longer have TikTok on their devices in the latest ban imposed on the Chinese-owned social media app over security concerns.The Greater London Authority (GLA) said the rule was implemented as it takes information security extremely seriously.It comes after the UK Government banned ministers from using the video-sharing app on their work phones following a security review.

London City Hall staff will no longer have TikTok on their devices in the latest ban imposed on the Chinese-owned social media app over security concerns.The Greater London Authority (GLA) said the rule was implemented as it takes information security extremely seriously.It comes after the UK Government banned ministers from using the video-sharing app on their work phones following a security review.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is due to meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow in a political boost for the isolated Russian president after the International Criminal Court (ICC) charged him with war crimes in Ukraine.r Xi's government gave no details of what the Chinese leader hoped to accomplish.Mr Xi and Mr Putin declared they had a "no-limits friendship" before the February 2022 attack on Ukraine, but China has tried to portray itself as neutral.

The United Kingdom government has banned use of Chinese social media platform TikTok among ministers and officials on their work devices as a "precautionary" measure over worries the app is used to snoop on Brits.Speaking to Parliament this afternoon, Oliver Dowden, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Secretary of State who oversees Cabinet Office policy, said the ban would have immediate effect and applied to devices issued within ministerial and non-ministerial departments, but not to "personal devices for government employees or ministers or the general public."

Jose Maria Sison, the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its long-running guerrilla insurgency, died on Friday in exile in the Netherlands, where he had lived for decades.He was 83.His death, in a hospital in Utrecht, was announced by a spokesman for the party, Marco Valbuena, who called him a great Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thinker and revolutionary leader.

For a long time during the coronavirus pandemic, China's aggressive approach to stamping out cases worked.It has kept deaths from Covid-19 much lower than the rest of the world, most notably in comparison with the United States.But in recent months, that approach, called zero Covid, seemed increasingly outdated.

FBI Director Chris Wray believes TikTok poses threats to national security as a Chinese-owned app that doesn't share our values and could manipulate content.The popular video-sharing app, owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance, boasted more than 1 billion active global users last year, a majority of which are American.

Cuba and Russia are united by sanctions and historic confrontations with the United States.On Tuesday, the leaders of the two countries  Miguel Diaz-Canel and Vladimir Putin  met in Moscow to strengthen their bond.While Cuba's delegation to the United Nations General Assembly has abstained on resolutions to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Diaz-Canel  the president of Cuba and the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba  has been far less tepid in his support of the Kremlin.

Almost 90% of people in China's third most populous province have now been infected with Covid-19, a top local official has said, as the country battles an unprecedented surge in cases.Kan Quancheng, director of the health commission for central Henan province, told a press conference that as of January 6, 2023, the province's Covid infection rate is 89%.

Donald Trump announced his latest presidential bid on Tuesday night, but the former president isn't our first candidate to file paperwork for the 2024 election.As of November 15, nearly 500 people have already filed with the the Federal Election Commission to run for president, with forms being submitted as early as 2019.