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France Withdraws Controversial Police Bill After Protests

7:53am December 05, 2020

by Eleanor Beardsley

France's interior minister thought his security-minded nation would support a bill to restrict filming of police but citizens across the political spectrum objected and the government dropped it.

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A simulated image of the Chang'e-5 spacecraft blasting off from the moon. The Chinese National Space Administration placed China's first real flag on the lunar surface Thursday.

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Chinese Chang'e-5 Is Returning From Moon With Rocks, Left A Flag To Celebrate

6:27pm December 04, 2020

by Dustin Jones

The craft has been collecting rock and soil samples. China is only the second country to plant its national banner on the lunar surface.

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China-Australia Relations Are Quickly Worsening. How Did They Get Bad?

4:35pm December 04, 2020

by John Ruwitch

Relations between Australia and its biggest trading partner, China, are quickly deteriorating as it pushes back against Beijing's increasingly assertive foreign policies.

Farmers protest Thursday on a highway at the Delhi-Haryana state border in India. They have descended upon the borders of New Delhi to protest new farming laws that they say will open them to corporate exploitation.

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Crowds Of Indian Farmers Gather For Days To Protest New Agriculture Laws

4:35pm December 04, 2020

Tens of thousands of Indian farmers are protesting for a ninth straight day. They accuse the government of using the coronavirus crisis to push through market-based changes without consulting them.

Will Biden Be Able To Reopen The Door To Negotiations With Iran?

3:54pm December 04, 2020

by Peter Kenyon

One of the key foreign policy areas facing President-elect Joe Biden is Iran. He wants to reach out to Iran after taking office, but recent attacks and sanctions could be driving the country away.

Zsolt Jeszenszky, creative director of Hungary's Pesti TV, hosts his talk show, Political Hobbyist. In Trump's refusal to concede, he hears a message for European nationalists: "If there is a system that's against you, you should fight, and you should not

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Pro-Populist Media In Eastern Europe Promote Trump's Baseless Voter Fraud Claims

3:39pm December 04, 2020

by Joanna Kakissis

Media that are supportive of leaders in Hungary, Poland and Slovenia either repeat the false claims or suggest President-elect Joe Biden is part of a vast liberal conspiracy to stifle conservatives.

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The U.K. will begin a mass vaccination against COVID-19 on Tuesday, as hundreds of thousands of doses of Pfizer's vaccine reach the public. Here, a temperature-controlled cold storage truck leaves a Pfizer facility in Belgium Thursday.

U.K. Will Start Immunizing People Against COVID-19 On Tuesday, Officials Say

1:57pm December 04, 2020

by Bill Chappell

Mass vaccinations will start less than a week after the U.K. approved the new drug. Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford says it could start "a long path back to normality."

South Koreans pray for their children taking the College Scholastic Ability Test at Chogey temple in Seoul on Thursday. New coronavirus infections in the country have spiked in recent days.

South Korea Considers Tighter Coronavirus Restrictions As Cases Spike

1:07pm December 04, 2020

by Anthony Kuhn

Amid criticism of the government's recent handling of the pandemic, the country is seeing more cases than at any other time in the past nine months.

The Arecibo Observatory's mammoth telescope collapsed overnight. It's seen here in November, after a cable damaged its dish.

Video: Arecibo Observatory Telescope Collapses, Ending Era Of World-Class Research

11:34am December 04, 2020

by Bill Chappell

Astronomers compare losing the observatory in Puerto Rico to losing a big brother. It was once the world's largest single-dish radio telescope.

Marines of the 5th and 7th regiments who hurled back a surprise onslaught by three Chinese communist divisions wait to withdraw from the Chosin Reservoir area circa December 1950.

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'God ... Let Us Survive': Remembering Korean War's Chosin Battle And Evacuation

11:15am December 04, 2020

by Anthony Kuhn

Seventy years on, war participants are drawing starkly differing conclusions from the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. The decisive conflict's lasting legacy is still visible on the Korean Peninsula.

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