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US sanctions Chinese companies over Uighur Muslim abuse complaints

China's ruling Communist Party is accused of mass detentions, forced labor, forced birth control and other abuses against Muslim minorities in the country's Xinjiang region. China denies the allegations.

Hong Kong protesters get creative with signs, slogans to cheat security law

Anti-government protesters have adapted new methods to protest without violating the new security law legislation.

EU, China discuss Hong Kong law, trade concerns

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel had video calls with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and President Xi Jinping, where they discussed ties, as well as China's security law for Hong Kong.

Trump issues warning as judge allows release of Bolton's book

US President Trump says his former national security advisor John Bolton would pay a "big price" for what he described as an illegal tell-all memoir.

Timeline: the Line of Actual Control between China and India

Stand-off between Indian and Chinese border troops is the culmination of festering tensions between the two sides over territory that has been contested for more than a century.

India reports 20 soldiers killed in border clash with China

Brawls and face-offs flare up on a fairly regular basis between the two nuclear-armed giants over their 3,500-kilometre frontier, which has never been properly demarcated, but no one has been killed in decades.

France tells China it still backs 'one country, two systems' for Hong Kong

President Emmanuel Macron says "he was monitoring the (Hong Kong) situation closely and reiterated France's support for the principle of "one country, two systems".

Trump offers 'to mediate' in India-China showdown in Kashmir

"United States is ready, willing and able to mediate or arbitrate their now raging border dispute," US President Trump tweets, as troops of both countries remain locked in a standoff in India-administered Kashmir's Ladakh region.

Kashmir construction sparks China-India border standoff

Indian observers say thousands of troops from both sides face each other in Galwan Valley following controversial Indian construction in high-altitude Ladakh area of India-administered Kashmir, scene of a brief but bloody war in 1962 that India lost.

Is American Big Tech using China to increase its influence in Washington?

Feeling the pinch of rising Chinese tech, the Silicon Valley giants become political to stay in the game.

UK has second highest number of Covid-19 deaths globally – latest updates

The global coronavirus pandemic has affected almost 5 million people, with around 320,000 deaths. Here are more coronavirus-related updates for May 19:

Trump calls WHO 'puppet of China'

US President Donald Trump says World Health Organization had "done a very sad job" in its handling of coronavirus and he would soon make a decision about US funding to it.