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China is accusing the U.S. of “monitoring, harassing and willfully detaining" Chinese students and researchers in the country

A German company that specializes in laser communication says it is pulling out of uncompleted transactions in China after the German government barred it from delivering hardware to the country

Asian shares are mixed as investors eyeball surging coronavirus cases in the region

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says President Donald Trump plans to take action on what he sees as a broad array of national security risks presented by software connected to the Chinese Communist Party

German authorities have added Catalonia and two other northern Spanish regions to a long list of risk areas, days after the foreign ministry advised against nonessential travel to the area

A survey shows China’s manufacturing activity edged up in July and export orders strengthened despite weak U.S. and European demand, in fresh signs the world’s second-largest economy is gradually recovering from the coronavirus pandemic

The European Union has imposed its first-ever sanctions over cyberattacks, naming six individuals and three organizations including Russia's military intelligence agency

The spokesman for the government of Cyprus says Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to intercede with Turkey's leader to try to ease rising tensions over oil and gas exploration in Mediterranean Sea waters that Cyprus claims as its own

World Trade Organization members have established a dispute panel to consider and rule on a complaint by South Korea against Japanese export restrictions on key components for items like South Korean semiconductors and mobile phone and television displays

Antagonisms between the U.S. and China are rattling governments around the world, prompting a German official to warn of “Cold War 2.0” and Kenya’s president to appeal for unity to fight the coronavirus pandemic

They have the largest economies in the world

The United Nations has announced that Libyan officials are allowing a much-anticipated external audit of Libya’s Central Bank to go ahead, a breakthrough that could pave the way for an end to the country’s crippling oil blockade

Wall Street is in the throes of a gold rush, as investors drive the price of the precious metal to new heights

Stocks resumed their upward march on Wall Street Monday, while the price of gold rushed to a record high at the start of a week packed with potentially market-moving events

Australia’s hard-hit Victoria state has posted another daily record of 532 new COVID-19 cases

Kosovo’s foreign minister has asked Apple to correct her country’s borders in its maps

The price of gold is at a record high and a stock market rally is stalling as tensions between the U.S. and China rachet higher and coronavirus infections continue to hamper travel and other businesses

Greek authorities say Turkey has reduced the number of navy vessels in an area of the East Mediterranean where it disputes Greek jurisdiction over oil-and-gas drilling rights

The chief of the World Health Organization says the coronavirus pandemic “continues to accelerate”, with a doubling of cases over the last six weeks

The price of gold has surged to a record above $1,930 per ounce and global stock markets are mixed amid U.S.-China tensions and concern a recovery from the coronavirus pandemic might be weakening

Morocco is banning all travel to and from some of its major cities to try to stem a small spike in coronavirus cases, even though the North African country has remained less impacted than its European neighbors to the north

The foreign ministers of South Korea and Hungary have met to discuss maintaining bilateral cooperation amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Hong Kong will ban dining at restaurants completely and mandate masks in all public places as it battles a worsening coronavirus outbreak

Countries are considering putting away their welcome mats to tourists and regional meetings are being put on hold as the pandemic strengthens its grip in many of the worst-affected countries