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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines protested on Thursday China’s designation of a disputed South China Sea reef, which it has turned into a heavily fortified island base, as a Chinese “administrative center.”The Department of Foreign Affairs issued a statement objecting to what it called China’s “illegal designation” of Fiery…

Former national security adviser Susan Rice tore into Jared Kushner on Wednesday for claiming the federal government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak has been a “great success story.” Kushner made his comments after the U.S. topped 1 million cases of the virus and more than 59,000 deaths. President Donald Trump’s…

Insider polled 1,099 people about how they've been affected by the novel coronavirus.Of the Americans surveyed, 12%, or one in eight, said they know someone who has died from COVID-19.Another 33% know someone who had been diagnosed, and 8% said someone "very close to me" had been diagnosed.Visit Business Insider's…

MIAMI (Reuters) - The governor of Florida, among the last to lock down his state against the U.S. coronavirus outbreak, announced on Wednesday he would permit a limited economic reopening next week while leaving restraints intact for the dense greater-Miami area. Florida became the latest, and one of the two…

April 29, 2020 6:45am by Barry Ritholtz My mid-week morning train WFH reads: • Some Countries Are Squashing the Coronavirus Curve. Vietnam Is One. (Wall Street Journal) • The II Fear Index: Investors Expect Long Lockdown (Institutional Investor) • Conferences pivot to streaming channels: ‘We look at this as having…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Vietnam features extensive ethnolinguistic diversity and occupies a key position in Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA). Vietnam, with its borders to China, Laos and Cambodia, has a rich geographical diversity, and ample access to human migration with the Red River and Mekong deltas, and a long coastline.…

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LAGOS (Reuters) - In Nigeria’s Benue state, the food basket of the country, Mercy Yialase sits in front of her idle rice mill. Demand is high across the nation, but she already has mounds of paddy rice that are going nowhere amid the COVID-19 lockdown. “I can’t mill because the…

By A. Ananthalakshmi and Rozanna LatiffKUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Two U.S. warships are operating in the South China Sea, the Navy said on Tuesday, with three regional security sources saying they were near an area of a standoff between China and Malaysia.The Haiyang Dizhi 8, a Chinese government research ship,…

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns has a reputation for presenting audiences with incredibly comprehensive, detail-oriented portraits of American history, covering everything from baseball to the Brooklyn Bridge. His documentaries are just as informative as they are engrossing, and you might walk away considering yourself an unofficial expert on whatever topic…