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Gareth Bale declares he is interested in joining the MLS as he continues to be frozen out at Madrid

Real Madrid attacker Gareth Bale has declared his interest in moving to the MLS and questions continue to be asked about his future in Spain.




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Billie Eilish looks stylish in edgy Burberry ensemble as Vogue China's latest cover girl

The Bad Guy singer, 18, looked captivating while clad in an almost Handmaid's Tale looking hat and plaid Burberry coat in the portrait, which was shot by fashion photographer Nick Knight.




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Doctors say Chinese ventilators sent to British hospitals would harm patients

Doctors from the Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust have warned against the 250 ventilators purchased from the Chinese company Beijing Aeonmed Co. Ltd., in a five-page letter.




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Katarina Johnson-Thompson suggests she will forego defence of world indoor pentathlon title

There are three significant events in the 2021 athletics calendar, with the European Indoors on March 5-7 joined by the rescheduled World Indoors on March 19-21 and the Tokyo Olympics.




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China censorship deleted critical coronavirus articles and social media posts written in Morse code

One deleted article about the situation in Wuhan (pictured) that caused particular outcry was typed out again and re-posted by dozens of social media users in 10 languages to test out censorship levels.




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'Once upon a virus': China mocks the US response to the coronavirus crisis with Lego-like animation

In the animation posted online by China's official Xinhua news agency, a warrior Lego figure wearing a face mask warns a Statue of Liberty figure of the dangers of the virus.




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China academic accuses Australia of 'stabbing Beijing in the back' over coronavirus inquiry calls

An influential academic who writes for a Chinese Communist Party newspaper has accused Australia of 'stabbing China in the back' over its calls for an international coronavirus inquiry.




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Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest and Kerry Stokes back China in diplomatic row

What do mining magnate Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest and media mogul Kerry Stokes have in common? Both stand boost fortunes thanks to China, and both have done Beijing's bidding on COVID-19.




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Fears China will create coronavirus vaccine first and try to extort world for access

The United States and China are locked in a race to develop a coronavirus vaccine as fears mount that the latter country would use its success as economic and diplomatic leverage.




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Chinese investors are preparing to buy up cheap Australian property once restrictions are lifted

Chinese property investors are lying in wait to snap up cheap real estate deals in Australia when coronavirus travel restrictions are lifted.




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Australian billionaires have been 'groomed' by China to be 'megaphones' of Communist Party policy

Mining magnate Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest and media mogul Kerry Stokes drew widespread outrage for calling on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to dump an inquiry into the origin of coronavirus.




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Two Chinese boys drop dead as they run in PE lessons while wearing face masks

Li, 15, collapsed and died on April 24 after jogging in PE class while wearing a face mask. The other Chinese schoolboy, 14, reportedly died during a running exam whilst donning a mask.




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Ben Wallace warns China it has questions to answer over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak

The Defence Secretary reignited a war of words over whether China suppressed information about the virus which prevented other countries from taking steps to save more lives.




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China reports the lowest number of active coronavirus cases since Wuhan was put under lockdown

Mi Feng, a spokesperson from China's National Health Commission, said Monday that the number of active infections in China dropped to 481, the lowest number recorded since January 23.




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3.5million confirmed coronavirus cases have now been recorded around the world

At least 3,506,729 people have been sickened by the virus since it emerged in China late last year, according to Johns Hopkins University figures.




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Chinese man steals a black swan from a park before making it into a soup

The Chinese resident, known by his surname Wu, claimed that he attacked the black swan after the animal 'pecked him when he was teasing it with a club', according to the press.




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Boris Johnson's Downing Street press conference is met with criticism on Gogglebox

Contributors on the Channel 4 show mocked Boris Johnson's description of COVID-19 as 'an unexpected mugger', with several pointing out it was 'no surprise'.




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Billionaire Kerry Stokes puts Chinese numbers on jet after the COVID-19 pandemic

Kerry Stokes transferred the registration to his new his new Bombardier Global Express 6000 jet.Stokes was criticised after recently he used the front page of The West Australian to call for Canberra to back down.




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Dr Fauci says there's 'NO evidence' coronavirus leaked from Chinese lab - contradicting Trump claims

Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, panned the conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was accidentally leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology on Monday.




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China 'harasses, threatens and silences' Wuhan COVID-19 survivors who plan to sue the government

Multiple activists, journalists and ordinary internet users have already vanished after criticising Beijing's approach to the crisis as the country tries to control the COVID-19 narrative.




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The Sage Files: UK scientists believe coronavirus cases in China are TEN TIMES higher than claimed

Documents released today from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) show that UK scientists believed that the number of cases was vastly higher than admitted by Beijing.




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Starbucks to reopen 85% of its US stores by the end of the week

The Seattle-based coffee chain is aiming to have 90 percent of its cafes opened by June. It temporarily shuttered half of its 8,000 US stores in late March after the COVID outbreak.




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Video shows middle-aged woman racially abusing Chinese woman in Melbourne

A middle-aged woman has been filmed telling a Chinese cafe worker to 'go back to China and keep your disease over there', in a vile racist attack in Melbourne.




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Children CAN spread coronavirus, studies claim as NIH launches trial to track pediatric infections 

One Chinese study found school closures can lower a peak in coronavirus cases by 40% to 60% and a Germany study found children carry as high levels of the virus as adults can.




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Disneyland Shanghai to reopen on Monday with social distancing measures remaining in place

Walt Disney CEO Bob Chapek revealed Disneyland Shanghai (left) will reopen its gates on Monday, becoming the first Disney theme park to start operating again after COVID-19.




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Chinese province forces residents to stand back to back in the lift to stop the spread of COVID-19

Local authorities from the north-eastern Chinese province Heilongjiang has issued a new set of guidelines as precautions against the spread of the killer bug in lifts and escalators.




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Paralysed mother, 79, miraculously survives after being 'buried alive by her son'

Police in north-western China's Shaanxi province rescued the paralysed mother, known by her surname Wang, on Tuesday after the woman's daughter-in-law reported her missing.




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Did European athletes catch coronavirus while competing at World Military Games in Wuhan in OCTOBER?

Elodie Clouvel, a world champion modern pentathlete, said she believed she and her partner - another athlete - caught the virus while at the competition in Wuhan from October 18 to 27.




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FTSE 100 opens flat on 5849 as Asian shares continue to climb after China's central bank fixed yuan

London markets opened flat today as Asian shares continued to climb after China's central bank fixed the yuan in a bid to ease US trade-war tensions.




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Mike Pompeo launches new attack on China accusing it of still refusing access to its labs

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched a new round of attacks on China, accusing Beijing of covering up coronavirus outbreak and charging them with providing faulty medical equipment.




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SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: David Beckham's body art proves tattoo much for the Chinese state

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: David Beckham likes to think he is a man of the people. However, the Communist state of China takes a rather different view of his body art.




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Trump says he believes the U.S. coronavirus death count but 'not China's'

President Trump said he believed the American coronavirus death toll was accurate - but not China's - amid reports that he planned to start sowing doubt about the U.S. totals.




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New Zealand's foreign minister smashes the Chinese ambassador

The debate over Taiwan's place within the World Health Organisation has escalated with New Zealand's foreign minister Winston Peters taking aim at the Chinese ambassador.




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How Beijing-backed investment Down Under plummeted by more than $10BILLION in just a year

The Foreign Investment Review Board's annual report shows the value of Chinese investment approvals across all sectors fell from $23.7 billion in 2017/18 to $13.1 billion in 2018/19.




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Man causes a pile-up in an expressway tunnel in China

CCTV footage shows the man stop his car in the overtaking lane of the Qinyuanling tunnel, Zhejiang Province, China, causing a three-car pile up and a near-fatal accident as he tries to escape.




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Chinese girl, seven, has to study UNDER her parents' market counter every day

Touching images showed the little girl taking lessons online with her laptop and naked light bulbs in the confined space under the market stall in the outskirt of Yichang city, Hubei province.




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Chinese school orders students to run two hours every day in 'weight-loss classes'

A video filmed Wednesday showed two rows of students running around the field track during 'weight-loss classes' at the Shuguang Bilingual School in Huai'an, Jiangsu province of eastern China.




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China bans cities from building skyscrapers taller than 1,640 feet

China has forbidden all cities from erecting towers taller than 500 metres (1,640 feet) except in 'special' circumstances. The construction of those taller than 250 metres (820 feet) will be 'strictly limited'.




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Unruly tourist forces a peacock to pose for a picture with her

Social media footage from Monday shows the woman pinning down the peacock for a snap as the distressed animal struggles to get away at Yunnan Safari Park in south-eastern China.




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Coronavirus: Nations hit hardest had most international travel

Brazilian researchers found nations hit hardest by the killer disease were ones accepting the most international flights. It may explain why the US (73,431) and UK (30,150) have the most deaths.




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Manchester City owners buy NINTH club - Belgian second division side Lommel SK

City Football Group, who are majority owned by Abu Dhabi United and have involvement from China Media Capital, CITIC Capital and Silver Lake, will wipe out Lommel's debts of £1.75million.




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Coronavirus: Trump twice ignored aides' advice over China

President Donald Trump turned down suggestions by aides who encouraged him to press Chinese President Xi Jinping on transparency.




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Coronavirus US: Mike Pompeo says China hasn't provided samples

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says China is holding back essential information about the coronavirus, although a whistleblower says a top U.S. official failed to ask for it in January.




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How China 'used Word document to launch potentially devastating cyber-attack' on Western Australia

The report by Israeli cyber-security company Check Point said hackers known as Naikon targeted a worker in the office of the Western Autralian premier.




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China property sales site Juwai predicts Chinese buyers will come back to Australia property

Juwai, Asia's biggest property sales site for overseas investors, has revealed why Chinese buyers are really interested in Australia - and expects their interest to surge in 2020.




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China uses New Jersey Mayor's claim he had COVID-19 in November to blame US for virus

China is honing in on claims made by New Jersey mayor Michael Melham that he contracted COVID-19 as early as November, suggesting the virus could have emerged from the US.




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Chinese scenic spot unveils 'the world's largest swing' which stands 30 storeys tall

A Chinese scenic spot has built a huge swing on the edge of a 2,300-foot-tall cliff and is planning to apply for the world record of the largest swing. The swing is roughly the height of a 30-storey building.




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Odion Ighalo 'desperate to stay at Manchester United' with striker due for return to China on May 31

Odion Ighalo was settling in nicely to his dream Manchester United loan before it was cruelly cut off by coronavirus, leaving the striker desperate to extend his stay with the Premier League club.




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Salomon Rondon 'desperate to return to Newcastle' as he eyes European switch after spell in China

Rondon spent the entirety of the 2018-19 season on loan at Newcastle from West Brom and scored 12 goals in 33 appearances, which saw him crowned the club's player of the year.




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Satellite images reveal fleets of empty cruise ships clustering together in Caribbean & Philippines

At least three groups of cruise ships, with 15 in total, are clustered together off Coco Cay and Great Stirrup Cay in the Bahamas and about 12 are off the coast of Manila, in the Philippines.