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Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech Thursday during the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

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China Celebrates Its Communist Party's Centennial With Spectacle, Saber Rattling

8:05am July 01, 2021

by Emily Feng

In a fiery speech at Tiananmen Square, Communist Party Chairman Xi Jinping vowed to keep an iron grip on Hong Kong and to conquer Tiawan, and warned foreign forces against trying to bully China.

The airfield has a long runway which is believed to have been used to land China's space plane in 2020.

Satellite Photos Show China Expanding Its Mysterious Desert Airfield

6:28am July 01, 2021

by Geoff Brumfiel

Satellite imagery shared exclusively with NPR shows new buildings going up at a huge, remote airfield near an old nuclear test range.

Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, pictured in February 2011, has died, his family announced on Wednesday.

Donald Rumsfeld, The Controversial Architect Of The Iraq War, Has Died

8:36pm June 30, 2021

by Alana Wise

Rumsfeld, a longtime military thinker and Washington powerbroker, served twice as secretary of defense. He was 88.

Lots Of Goals, Upsets And A Penalty Shootout: Euro 2020 Is Just Heating Up

8:05pm June 30, 2021

NPR's Ari Shapiro checks in with Luis Miguel Echegaray of CBS Sports about the upcoming quarter finals of the European Soccer Tournament.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks Tuesday during a Politburo meeting of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang.

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Kim Jong Un Says A Lapse In COVID Protocols Caused A 'Grave Incident'

7:18pm June 30, 2021

by Anthony Kuhn

The North Korean leader didn't say exactly what the incident was, nor did he contradict the country's official line, which is that it has not had a single COVID-19 infection so far.

Moises Soffer, a volunteer member of Cadena International's search-and-rescue team working at the site of the condo building collapse, holds a trained search dog named Oreo in Surfside, Fla., on Sunday.

Rescue Teams Hold Out Hope Of Finding Survivors In Florida Condo Collapse

6:54pm June 30, 2021

It's been nearly a week since part of the building in Surfside, Fla., collapsed. "We still remain hopeful because that's who we are," says Leon Roy Hausmann, a representative of one rescue group.

A display at an Olympia Federal Savings branch shows a temperature of 107 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday in the early evening in Olympia, Wash.

The West Coast Heat Has Killed Dozens And Hospitalized More In Canada And The U.S.

6:41pm June 30, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

Heat-related illnesses have sent hundreds of people to the ER across the region as temperatures hit unprecedented highs. British Columbia reported about 100 excess deaths from Friday to Monday.

Opinion: I'm Nigerian. I'm Vaccinated. Europe Won't Let Me In

6:26pm June 30, 2021

by Ifeanyi Nsofor

Europe lists four approved vaccines for travelers. There's an omission that makes Nigerian physician Ifeanyi Nsofor feel invisible — and disappointed.

Hong Kong police show their new goose step marching style on National Security Education Day at a police school in Hong Kong on April 15.

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China's Tough Hong Kong Law Turns 1 Year Old — And It's Already Grown Teeth

4:44pm June 30, 2021

by Emily Feng

Apple Daily was closed, universities were muzzled and prominent activists were either jailed or exiled. The national security law has surely made an impact in Hong Kong in its first year in force.

Moderna says recently completed studies have found its vaccine to have a neutralizing effect against all COVID-19 variants tested, including the delta variant.

Moderna Says Studies Show Its Vaccine Is Effective Against The Delta Variant

1:37pm June 30, 2021

by Laurel Wamsley

The delta variant is the fast-moving strain of the coronavirus now found in 96 countries. It's expected to be the dominant variant in the U.S. within weeks.