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A report Friday showed that US inflation is continuing to cool, raising hopes for a smaller increase that’s less painful than last year’s aggressive hikes

New restrictions are being imposed on travelers with cameras and binoculars as the regime attempts to restrict reporting on the repression

The Treasury and State departments announced the moves in coordinated statements that target dozens of the mercenaries’ affiliates

New research based on seismic waves suggests that the innermost level of the planet is losing speed and may be spinning in the opposite direction to the surface

The relaxation of restrictions let loose a wave of pent-up travel desire, particularly around the country’s most important time for family gatherings

Anatoly Legkodymov, who lives in China, was arrested Tuesday night in Miami

Economic growth fell to 3% last year, not even half 2021’s rate, under pressure from antivirus controls and a real estate slump

The electric car company has lost more than 70% of its value on the stock market and analysts doubt that it can maintain its market share in the long term

The toll included 5,503 fatalities due to respiratory failure caused by Covid-19 and 54,435 from other ailments combined with the disease

The scientific community is aghast at He Jiankui’s return after three years in prison and compares him to Nazi doctors

XBB and XBB1.5 now account for more than 44% of all coronavirus cases in the United States, although no data indicates that these infections are more serious

The IMF warns about concurrent downturns in the US, Europe and China

Next-door nations are preparing for a flood of visitors as cases and hospitalizations surge in the Asian giant

The US, WHO and EU have questioned the reliability of data offered by the Asian giant, which claims to have the latest coronavirus wave sweeping the country ‘under control’

The United States is home to 16 of the 20 largest public businesses by market capitalization, one more than last year

A new ban in the lower house is just the latest chapter of a longstanding dispute over whether the application threatens US national security

A lack of transparency over the scale of the latest outbreak and concerns over the possibility of new variants emerging have led to new restrictions in several countries

Beijing said it would continue to ‘firmly defend its sovereignty and security’ after a collision between a Chinese J-11 and a US RC-135 reconnaissance airplane was narrowly avoided

The Spanish researcher believes that the Asian country has made a mistake in going from a zero-Covid policy to a nearly unrestricted one, as its population has low vaccination coverage

On guidance from the CDC and amid concern over Beijing’s management of a new coronavirus outbreak, negative tests will be required at US airports from January

Beijing’s decision to end its strict zero-Covid policy has led to a spike in cases. Although official national figures remain low, local authorities have reported between 500,000 and a million per day

After three years of iron-fisted containment measures and recent backtracking on its zero-Covid policy, government officials and state media are now downplaying the risk of the virus

An internal investigation by parent company ByteDance confirms that employees obtained personal data from reporters who were probing Beijing’s influence on the app’s activities

EL PAÍS took a look at four major problems the world will have to contend with in the new year: the war in Ukraine, the fragile relationship between the West and China, climate change and economic turmoil

Following intense social protests, the government has lifted several restrictions, which have resulted in mixed feelings of relief among an exhausted population

Beijing has approved easing measures after citizens took to the streets in a rare show of public anger over draconian restrictions to combat the spread of the coronavirus