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US set to ban TikTok and WeChat from app stores
As of this Sunday, those in the US will no longer be able to download the Chinese owned social media applications TikTok and WeChat. President Donald Trump is making good on his promise to ban the platforms over...
COVID-19: London restrictions ‘increasingly likely’
London looks likely to be hit with Covid restrictions – the capital’s mayor Sadiq Khan is calling for measures sooner rather than later. More than 10m people are already facing up to tough new restrictions...
Heat turns Siberian lake bubblegum pink
This Siberian lake blushes a delicious crimson pink when the temperature rises and the rain stays away. Every summer, tourists travel to the Altai Region to witness these fantasy-like images, caught by a drone first...
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Madrid orders partial lockdown after surge in Covid-19 infections
The regional government of the Spanish capital Madrid ordered a lockdown from Monday in some of the poorer areas of the city and its outskirts that are home to about 850,000 people, after a surge in coronavirus...
Hundreds gather outside US Supreme Court to mourn ‘RBG’
Hundreds of people gathered Friday night outside the Supreme Court, singing in a candlelight vigil and weeping together as they mourned the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.