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Two beluga whales are transported from captivity in China to a new ocean refuge 6,000 miles away 

Beluga whales Little Grey and Little White, have been freed from captivity in China to swim in the sea for the first time in nearly a decade. The Sea Life Trust took the whales to a sanctuary in Iceland.

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Who will stop the torturers of Beijing wiping Tibet from the face of the Earth?  

NORMAN BAKER: At last the world is waking up to the horrors inflicted by the Chinese Communist party upon the people it has colonised. Recently, we have seen chained and blindfolded Uighurs.

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Australia has no intention of sharing Chinese app TikTok 

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has distanced himself from US President Donald Trump’s threat to ban the Chinese-owned app.

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Wilford Brimley, actor who appeared in Cocoon before becoming Quaker Oats pitch man, dies at 85 

Wilford Brimley, the character actor who appeared in such hit films as Cocoon and The Firm but is best known as the pitch man for Quaker Oats food products, has died. He was 85.

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Lobbying firm with close links to Beijing gained access to influential UK figures 

Hampton Group, which has its HQ near St Paul’s Cathedral in Central London, was founded by a former Chinese government official.

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SEAN RAYMENT recalls that his jovial Chinese friend was a ruthless SPY  

We always met in a Chinese restaurant and we laughed a lot. Mainly silly things due to misunderstandings caused by language. His English was poor but somehow we muddled along.

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Scott Morrison to launch TikTok investigation amid data fears 

Prime Minister Scott Morrion suspects Chinese social media apps are sending Australian users’ personal information back to Beijing and sharing it with the Chinese government.

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Best place to see the night sky is the coldest place on Earth where the stars ‘twinkle’ the least 

Dome A, or ‘Argus’ – located in the centre of East Antarctica at an elevation of 13,428 feet above sea – experiences temperatures as low as -144°F and the clearest view of the stars.

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Tony Abbott fears China could source iron ore from west Africa and not need Australian exports 

Former prime minister Tony Abbott fears China could cripple Australia in the longer term by sourcing iron ore, used to make steel, from west Africa instead of Western Australia.

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Woman slaps granddaughter for ‘refusing to wear a face mask’ 

The Shanghai grandmother was caught on camera savagely hitting her young granddaughter in the face at least three times after the girl allegedly refused to put on a face mask.

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Downing Street distances itself from ‘Mike Pompeo’s WHO claim’ 

Downing Street today appeared to try to distance itself from Mike Pompeo’s alleged claim that the boss of the World Health Organisation had been ‘bought’ by China.

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China warns UK firms ‘retaliation is coming’ over Huawei 5G ban 

China has warned British businesses ‘retaliation is coming’ and they could be ‘in the firing line’ after the UK banned Huawei from the nation’s 5G network.

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Chinese owned TikTok’s plans to establish a global HQ in Britain are now in doubt after Huawei row 

A controversial Chinese social-media firm’s plans to establish its global headquarters in the UK have been thrown into doubt amid growing concern about Beijing’s influence in Britain.

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Pentagon is working to develop detection system for EMP blast 

The Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency is working on sensors to detect and analyze EMP attacks under its Conventional Nuclear Integration/Battlefield Nuclear Warfare program.

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Petition demands Trader Joe’s change its ‘racist’ food packaging that uses ‘harmful stereotypes’  

An online petition is calling on Trader Joe’s to end its ‘racist’ branding of food products which uses alternate names such as ‘Trader Ming’s’ and ‘Trader José’s’ for products from other countries.

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