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Gender-based rifts spotlight social media role

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INT

The leader of the UK National Education Union has called for an independent inquiry into the rise of sexism and misogyny among boys and young men. Similar concerns have been…

China’s civil society groups put the Party in a bind

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CHINA

Yet research before and after the outbreak suggests Chinese citizens are less optimistic that the state can manage national disasters and emergencies alone. Despite the state’s…

New plan will rebalance China's digital growth

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CHINA

It promises to be the world's most comprehensive and integrated industrial policy for the digital age, and intends not just to develop particular high-tech sectors but to use…

US states step up AI rule-making amid federal lag

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US

One of New York’s two bills will require parental consent for children to access algorithm-driven social media feeds; the other will ban AI-powered creation and use of replicas of…

Religious freedom will slowly expand in Vietnam

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VIETNAM

Catholics are a sizeable minority religious group in the country, numbering roughly 7 million out of a population of nearly 100 million. Vietnam and the Vatican have not had…

Caribbean reconstruction efforts will face obstacles

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CARIBBEAN

Post-hurricane reconstruction efforts.

China and India will tone down differences for now

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CHINA/INDIA

The two leaders had informal talks in Wuhan in April. China and India last year were involved in a 73-day standoff at their tripoint with Bhutan. Delhi opposes Beijing’s Belt and…

Small firms’ survival struggle may hit US GDP and jobs

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UNITED STATES

High-frequency economic data by firm size lag by months, but signs indicate that small businesses have been disproportionately jeopardised by the pandemic, especially those in…

Far-right security threat will persist in Germany

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GERMANY

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) says membership of the group has more than doubled since 2016, to 23,000. The group's rejection of the federal…

Paris climate summit aims to avoid Copenhagen mistakes

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INTERNATIONAL

Climate policy will be of high international attention in the lead up to the UN's climate change summit in Paris in December (COP 21). The political and economic climate makes it…