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China says it shut down 128,000 websites in 2017

China shut down nearly 128,000 websites that contained obscene and other “harmful” information in 2017, the official Xinhua news agency reported late on Monday, citing government data. Xinhua said 30.9 million illegal...

Trump on Korea Talks: “If something can come out” of Those “That would be a great thing for all of humanity”

U.S. President Donald Trump says he hopes the newly arranged talks between North and South Korea will go "beyond the Olympics" and promised the United States will take part "at the...

Car bomb in Idlib kills 23

At least 23 people, some of them civilians, were killed by a car bomb in the rebel held Syrian city of Idlib Sunday. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack in...

Koreas’ talks to cover Olympics only

PENTAGON — North Korea has accepted South Korea's offer of high-level talks on Jan. 9 at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone dividing the two Koreas, but only...

Vitamin C might shorten Tuberculosis treatment time, study indicates

A new study has found that anti-tuberculosis drugs killed more bacteria in laboratory mice given a vitamin C supplement than those given drugs alone. If the findings hold up in human studies,...

US suspends security assistance to Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — The United States is suspending security assistance to Pakistan's army until it takes "decisive action" against the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network. "We consider them to be destabilizing the...

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