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Qatar has repeatedly rejected the accusations as baseless while highlighting its readiness for dialogue [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]

Qatar FM signals progress on resolving Gulf crisis

Qatari official says he could not predict whether a breakthrough was imminent or would fully resolve the dispute.

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The Netherlands faces tough questions over its yearly festival amid a global anti-racist movement.

An April 2020 report said that the Xinjiang government has signed a deal to open a hog farm for local consumption in Kashgar, an area that is 90-percent Muslim Uighur [File: How Hwee Young/EPA]

Uighurs forced to eat pork as China expands Xinjiang pig farms

The Brexit transition period, sometimes called the implementation period, will end on December 31 [Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Bloomberg]

Brexit talks falter: Prospect of deal breakthrough ‘receding’

Rohingyas are seen on a ship as they are moved to Bhasan Char island [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

Bangladesh ships Rohingya to remote island despite outcry

Nearly 65 million people globally have been infected by COVID-19 [Remo Casilli/Reuters]

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The sale includes products from privately held General Atomics, Lockheed Martin Corp F-35s and missiles made by Raytheon [Valda Kalnina/EPA]

Senate vote likely next week on blocking Trump’s UAE arms sale

The four companies plan to carry out the collection during already scheduled unmanned missions to the Moon in 2022 and 2023 [Michael Probst/AP Photo]

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Former pro-democracy politician Ted Hui Chi-fung has gone into exile after travelling to Denmark [File: Lam Yik/Reuters]

Hong Kong’s prominent democracy activists face agonising choice

Relations between the world's two largest economies have sunk to their lowest point in decades over issues such as trade, technology, security, human rights and COVID-19 [File: Susan Walsh/AP]

Trump spy chief says China biggest threat to freedom since WWII


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Black Pete, or Zwarte Piet as he is known in the Netherlands, is a holiday tradition dating back to the 19th century [File:Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters]

Black Pete: Is time up for the Netherlands’ blackface tradition?

An April 2020 report said that the Xinjiang government has signed a deal to open a hog farm for local consumption in Kashgar, an area that is 90-percent Muslim Uighur [File: How Hwee Young/EPA]

Uighurs forced to eat pork as China expands Xinjiang pig farms

The Brexit transition period, sometimes called the implementation period, will end on December 31 [Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Bloomberg]

Brexit talks falter: Prospect of deal breakthrough ‘receding’

Rohingyas are seen on a ship as they are moved to Bhasan Char island [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

Bangladesh ships Rohingya to remote island despite outcry

Nearly 65 million people globally have been infected by COVID-19 [Remo Casilli/Reuters]

Restrictions, lockdowns return as COVID-19 deaths go past 1.5m

The sale includes products from privately held General Atomics, Lockheed Martin Corp F-35s and missiles made by Raytheon [Valda Kalnina/EPA]

Senate vote likely next week on blocking Trump’s UAE arms sale

The four companies plan to carry out the collection during already scheduled unmanned missions to the Moon in 2022 and 2023 [Michael Probst/AP Photo]

NASA to buy Moon dust for $1

Former pro-democracy politician Ted Hui Chi-fung has gone into exile after travelling to Denmark [File: Lam Yik/Reuters]

Hong Kong’s prominent democracy activists face agonising choice

Relations between the world's two largest economies have sunk to their lowest point in decades over issues such as trade, technology, security, human rights and COVID-19 [File: Susan Walsh/AP]

Trump spy chief says China biggest threat to freedom since WWII

FILE PHOTO: A St John’s Ambulance volunteer holds a syringe during a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccinator training course at the Princess Anne Training Centre in Derby, Britain November 28, 2020. REUTERS/Lee Smith/File Photo

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Nearly 65 million people globally have been infected by COVID-19 [Remo Casilli/Reuters]

COVID-19: Restrictions, lockdowns return as deaths reach 1.5m

US President-elect Joe Biden has set up a COVID-19 task force to try to stem the spread of the deadly virus [File: Leah Millis/Reuters]

Biden asks Fauci to join COVID-19 team, stresses need for masks

More than 180 countries have joined Covax, a global collaboration working with manufacturers to distribute vaccines equitably [File:Susana Vera/Reuters]

COVID-19 fallout for ‘decades to come’: UN chief

Children have a more active immune system and can have a stronger reaction compared with adults [Flavio Lo Scalzo/Reuters]

Moderna plans to test COVID-19 vaccine on children

A student checks the time before the start of a college entrance exam amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic at an exam hall in Seoul on December 3, 2020. (Photo by KIM HONG-JI / POOL / AFP)

Key test: South Koreans sit university exam amid COVID-19 surge

Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing has died of complications from COVID-19. He was 94. [File: Morris Mac Matzen/Reuters]

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Yemen: Eight civilians killed in Hodeidah shelling

Government official blames Houthi fighters for attack on an industrial compound in Yemen’s strategic port city.

There has been an uptick in fighting in and around the lifeline port of the western city [File: Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters]

What do the local elections mean for Kashmiris?

India conducts local elections but analysts say they are an attempt by New Delhi to show normalcy in the region.

The Muslim-majority region is holding its first elections since its special status was removed last year [Tauseef Mustafa/AFP]
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Syed Ali Shah Geelani, one of the most prominent figures in the Kashmiri resistance movement, has been under house arrest in Indian-administered Kashmir for years [Photo courtesy of Ruwa Shah]

India’s winter of discontent: Farmers rise up against Modi

Tens of thousands of protesters camp outside Delhi, accusing PM Modi of working against the interests of farmers.

An elderly farmer shouts slogans as others listen to a speaker as they block a major highway at the Delhi-Haryana state border [Altaf Qadri/AP Photo]

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US discussing ‘deal’ allowing Huawei’s CFO to return to China

Extradition of Meng Wanzhou, who was arrested in Canada two years ago, has strained ties with China.

Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou leaves her home to attend a court hearing in Vancouver where she is fighting extradition to the US [File: Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters]

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