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NASA has become the latest foreign organization to upset China by referring to Taiwan as a country, the latest in a string of quarrels the Asian nation has waded into over wording it deems politically sensitive. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3m4kOGm

A report by WHO and Chinese experts released on Tuesday had judged the lab-leak hypothesis highly unlikely, saying the virus behind Covid-19 had probably jumped from bats to humans via an intermediary animal. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3m73lgh

The Karen National Union, the main political body representing the Karen minority, said the airstrikes were the latest case of Myanmar's military breaking a cease-fire agreement and it would have to respond. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3uce8si

The WHO's chief, long accused of complacency towards Beijing, hardened his tone Tuesday, urging further investigation into a theory Covid-19 sprang from a laboratory leak. The director-general of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also rebuked China for sitting on key data. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/39sAFJN

China has swung back with tit-for-tat sanctions of its own against several European Union and UK lawmakers, while sealing deals with Iran and reaffirming friendships with Russia and North Korea. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3cyvauW

New York will join 14 other US states and the District of Columbia in permitting cannabis use after the bill was backed by both state chambers, where Cuomo's Democratic Party holds strong majorities. "For too long the prohibition of cannabis disproportionately targeted communities of color with harsh prison sentences," Cuomo said in a statement. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sFBshT

Officers James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby said they suffered "physical and emotional injuries" in the riot they said was fomented by Trump, when he was in his final weeks as president and refusing to accept his election defeat. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2O8eOQd