BEIJING – Chinese regulators have fined giant e-commerce giant Alibaba 18.3 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) on charges of violating anti-monopoly rules.

The ruling Communist Party is tightening control over China's biggest e-commerce and other internet companies and has warned them not to use their industry dominance to stifle competition.

The State Administration for Market Regulation announced Saturday that Alibaba was fined for “abusing its dominant position” to limit competition in online retailing.

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Kerry heads to China for climate talk between top 2 emitters

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry is heading to China for talks between the world's two biggest carbon emitters ahead of President Joe Biden's climate summit of world leaders.

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National retail chain remains open to in-person shopping

Ontario’s state of emergency is tough on everyone, including businesses large and small that can’t open to customers or have to sell curbside. Some, however, are claiming an exemption to open their whole store: including one national chain that sells everything from tools, to lawnmowers, to farm equipment.

Community rallies around Revelstoke yoga studio owner fined for holding indoor class

Revelstoke business owner Rebecca Marchildon says she has become wary of health officials, those enforcing pandemic orders and journalists who carry their messages.Marchildon, like many frustrated business owners across B.C.

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Delhi Metro fines 515 passengers in a day due to violations of Covid-19 norms

Delhi Metro Railway Corporation (DMRC) is doing its part in trying to control the rapid spread of Covid-19 in the nation. The authorities went on to penalise 515 passengers aboard the Delhi Metro for violating coronavirus safety norms.DMRC has also requested people in Delhi to strictly follow the new safety norms put in place to deal with the worsening situation of the capital.

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COMMENTARY: COVID-19 pandemic could be a tipping point in ending stigma around mental health care

My two teenage daughters were born in China. In December 2019, my youngest and I were in the thick of plans to return to her birthplace for March break.But rumblings of illness in Wuhan began.

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Asian shares mostly gain as China exports rise

TOKYO – Asian shares were mostly higher on Tuesday with hopes growing for a global economic rebound despite surging coronavirus cases in many places.

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Orlando man still experiencing COVID-19 symptoms 1 year after waking from coma

ORLANDO, Fla. – One year ago, an Orlando man woke up from a COVID-19 coma after receiving convalescent plasma.

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Father of 2-year-old beating victim wants harsher charges for suspect

LAKELAND, Fla. - Jayden Hines, 2, was pronounced dead at Lakeland Regional Medical Center early Friday morning after suffering blunt-force trauma to multiple areas of his body, according to police. "My son was tortured -- tortured and murdered -- and aggravated manslaughter is not enough; I will not settle for that," said Rashawd Holsey Hines, the boy’s father. Hines says the suspect's charge, aggravated manslaughter of a child, isn't harsh enough. "It explains in the autopsy that my son suffered a laceration to the liver, brain bleeding, and bruises all over his body," he continued.

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Ex-Chiefs assistant Britt Reid charged with DWI after crash

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid was charged Monday with driving while intoxicated resulting in serious physical injury after a crash that left a 5-year-old girl critically injured.

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Volusia investigators waiting on Uber’s cooperation as more fraud victims come forward

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – The Volusia County sheriff said his office is now investigating five cases in what they’re calling a bizarre scam. The sheriff said schemers are using Uber drivers to collect money from victims and bring it to them.

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Weinstein challenges extradition to face California charges

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A lawyer for convicted movie producer Harvey Weinstein on Monday challenged Weinstein's extradition to California to face charges of assaulting five women, citing a paperwork technicality after his requests for a “humanitarian” delay to attend to Weinstein's medical needs were rejected.

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Harvey Weinstein secretly indicted on rape charges by grand jury in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES - Harvey Weinstein was secretly indicted on rape charges by a grand jury in Los Angeles a couple weeks ago, Fox News has learned. The move by LA District Attorney George Gascón should facilitate the extradition of the Hollywood producer from New York so that he can be tried.

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Biden tells execs US needs to invest, lead in computer chips

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden used a virtual meeting with corporate leaders about a global shortage of semiconductors to push Monday for his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, telling them that the U.S. should be the world's computer chip leader.

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Tamil Nadu reports over 6,700 new Covid-19 cases, CM assures adequate vaccines

Chennai: Tamil Nadu on Monday reported 6,711 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the tally to 9,40,145 while Chief Minister K Palaniswami said the state has adequate vaccine doses and urged industries and others to get their employees vaccinated. While 19 fatalities pushed the toll to 12,927, 2,339 patients were discharged following treatment.

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Huawei, HSBC agree on document deal for extradition case

HONG KONG – Chinese telecommunications equipment firm Huawei said Monday that it has reached an agreement with HSBC in Hong Kong to obtain documents that its chief financial office Meng Wanzhou hopes will help prevent her extradition to the U.S.

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Small but quick: Bhutan vaccinates 93% of adults in 16 days

THIMPU – When plotted on a graph, the curve of Bhutan’s COVID-19 vaccination drive shoots upwards from the very first day, crossing Israel, United States, Bahrain and other countries known for vaccinating people rapidly.

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Odisha: Two cinema halls sealed in Gajapati district for Covid norms violation

₹2,000 for the first and second offence of people not wearing face masks. A fine of ₹5,000 will be levied on people for subsequent violations Two cinema halls in Odisha's Gajapati district were sealed by the police for flouting Covid-19 safety protocols, said officials on Monday.

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Union minister Sanjeev Balyan tests positive for Covid-19

पिछले कुछ दिनों से मेरे संपर्क में आये सभी साथियों से अनुरोध है कि वो भी अपना कोविड टेस्ट करा लें।Balyan requested those who came in contact with him in the last few days to get themselves tested for the virus.Click here to read the Mint ePaperMint is now on Telegram.

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Asian shares decline on vaccine, virus worries

BANGKOK – Asian shares were lower on Monday, as investors grew wary over the recent surge in coronavirus cases in many places while vaccination efforts are making scant headway.

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Chinese health leader admits country's COVID-19 vaccines have low effectiveness

This photo taken on April 10, 2021 shows a man receiving a vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus in Nanjing, in China's eastern Jiangsu province.

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U.S. COVID-19 cases surge, hospitalizations soar in the Midwest

COVID-19 vaccinations are reaching record numbers in the United States, but new variants have caused hospitalizations to surge in America’s Midwest.

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Woman charged in connection to murder of Upper Darby woman found dead in Philadelphia

Dianna Brice (Family photo) PHILADELPHIA - A woman is facing charges in the disappearance and shooting death of a pregnant Upper Darby woman whose body was found in a pile of debris Tuesday in Southwest Philadelphia, police said.According to Upper Darby police, Tylydiah Garnett was taken into custody this weekend and charged with arson, abuse of a corpse, criminal conspiracy and related offenses in connection to the death of 21-year-old Dianna Brice. Brice was reported missing by her mother on March 30 after she and her boyfriend, 23-year-old Justin Smith, were last seen leaving the K Laundromat on Chruch Street in Lansdowne, according to police.Brice's mother said she couldn't reach her daughter and she contacted Smith who told her that

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Montreal man tells of incredible recovery after COVID-19 left him near death and in a coma for months

Toronto COVID-19 survivor says ‘dying alone’ was her greatest fear He was admitted to the Cite de la Sante hospital in Laval, where doctors initially gave him oxygen, then placed him in a coma and on a ventilator. His body started breaking down.“It just happened so quickly and I think it was just the worst day of our lives when he went on the ventilator,” said Elizabeth Scoufaras.Peter developed myriad complications while in the coma, including blood clots and double pneumonia.

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China’s covid-19 vaccination campaign gets off to slow start

education and coercion.While surveys show vaccine acceptance remains high, the motivation to go out and get inoculated is lagging in the world’s second-largest economy given low infection rates.China’s public health officials say the aim is to get 40% of the population vaccinated by summer. With the country administering more than 4.5 million shots a day in the past week, 161 million had been given by the end of Friday, according to the National Health Commission.

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Chinese vaccines’ effectiveness ‘not high’, admits country's top health official

BEIJING : Marking a rare admission from China over the effectiveness of its Covid-19 vaccine, the country's Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said that the efficacy of Chinese coronavirus vaccines is "not high" and they may require improvements, The Washington Post reported.This odd acknowledgement from China CDC director George Gao comes as Beijing has distributed millions of doses to other countries even though Chinese pharmaceutical firms have not released detailed clinical trial data about their efficacy.Addressing a conference in the southwestern city of Chengdu, Gao on Saturday said that China is "formally considering" options to change its vaccines to "solve the problem that the efficacy of the existing vaccines is not high."Soon

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Online grocery Weee's Larry Liu on delivering in a pandemic

Virtual grocery shopping became more popular during the pandemic lockdowns, and Weee, a startup focused on Asian grocery delivery, was no exception.

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Ashley Cain shares The Rock's 'let's go champ' message to baby amid health battle

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson sent a heartfelt message to reality star Ashley Cain on Sunday, as he expressed his sorrow over the news of his baby daughter Azaylia's health battle.Ashley's eight-month-year-old daughter Azaylia has been battling a rare form of leukemia.

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Chinese Covid vaccines' effectiveness low, says China's top official

Beijing: In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the country's top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to get a boost.Chinese vaccines “don't have very high protection rates," said the director of the China Centers for Disease Control, Gao Fu, at a conference Saturday in the southwestern city of Chengdu.Beijing has distributed hundreds of millions of doses abroad while trying to promote doubt about the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine made using the previously experimental messenger RNA, or mRNA, process.“It's now under formal consideration whether we should use different vaccines from different technical lines for the immunization

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Madhya Pradesh: CM Chouhan meets healthcare workers, discusses Covid situation

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday conducted a meeting with nurses and paramedical staff to review the Covid-19 situation in the state. He thanked the healthcare workers for their service to the society during the pandemic and asked everybody to continue to follow all safety protocols.

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Official: Chinese vaccines' effectiveness low

BEIJING – In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the country's top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to give them a boost.

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China mulls mixing Covid vaccines to improve efficacy of jabs

China is considering the mixing of different Covid-19 vaccines to improve the relatively low efficacy of its existing options, a top health expert has told a conference.Authorities have to "consider ways to solve the issue that efficacy rates of existing vaccines are not high", Chinese media outlet The Paper reported, citing Gao Fu, the head of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.His comments mark the first time a top Chinese expert has publicly alluded to the relatively low efficacy of the country's vaccines, as China forges ahead in its mass vaccination campaign and exports its jabs around the world.China has administered around 161 million doses since vaccinations began last year -- most people will require two shots -- and

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21 Chinese coal miners trapped by underground flood

BEIJING – Rescuers on Sunday were trying to reach 21 coal miners who were trapped by an underground flood in China's northwest, a state news agency reported.

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US-Philippines officials discuss concerns over China's ships

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday discussed with his Philippine counterpart China’s recent positioning of “militia vessels” near the Philippines in the South China Sea.

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Prosecutors defend newer charges against Ghislaine Maxwell

NEW YORK – Prosecutors hope to preserve a July trial date for Ghislaine Maxwell by defending a late-hour expansion of charges against her, saying they developed when a woman spoke after Maxwell’s arrest about her abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein in the early 2000s.

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Jessica Alba's consumer goods Honest Company files for US IPO after strong year fueled by pandemic

Jessica Alba's consumer goods firm the Honesty Company filed for a U.S. initial public offering this Friday.The move comes after a strong year as the COVID-19 pandemic fueled a surge in demand for baby products, lotions and sanitizers.Honest Company said its revenue jumped about 28% to $300 million for the year ended December 31, 2020.

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Toddler out of medical coma after Chicago road rage shooting

CHICAGO – A toddler shot in the head while riding in a car on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive has been removed from a medically induced coma but remains in critical condition, a doctor said Saturday.

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Tamil Nadu logs nearly 6,000 new Covid-19 cases, active tally tops 37,000

Tamil Nadu on Saturday logged 5,989 fresh Covid-19 cases pushing the total number of cases to 9,26,816, while the active cases touched 37,673. The state also recorded 23 deaths taking the toll to 12,886.

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Trump flag violates city ordinance -- but business owner willing to pay fines, 'go to jail'

Minnesota business owner says he is willing to pay a fine or even "go to jail" over a 50-by-30-foot "Trump 2020" flag he has on his property that city officials say is violating a local ordinance."It looks small because it’s 150 feet in the air, but it’s a pretty big flag," Jay Johnson, who is flying the Trump flag on top of a crane at his construction business in Buffalo, Minnesota, near Minneapolis, said, according to WCCO-TV in Minneapolis.LOUISVILLE, KY - OCTOBER 13: A flag showing support of President Donald Trump is seen hanging on a fence on October 13, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. Tuesday marked the first day of early in-person voting in Kentucky, which lasts through November 2.

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Sinopharm’s third covid vaccine approved for clinical trial in China

China has approved the third Covid-19 vaccine from Sinopharm Group Co. to start clinical trials, the company said.The green light to begin testing comes after two inactivated vaccines from Sinopharm were approved and widely used both at home and in developing countries.The latest one is a recombinant vaccine that includes parts of the coronavirus’s spike protein to stimulate immune response, according to a release posted on the company’s official WeChat account on Saturday.Click here to read the Mint ePaperMint is now on Telegram.

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Japan Covid-19 patient receives world's first living donor lung transplant

Covid-19 became the world's first-ever recipient of a lung transplant from living donors this week.According to Kyodo News, The operation, which took around 11 hours to perform, transplanted part of healthy lungs from the patient's husband and son to replace her failing lungs.

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US unveils new rules for government contacts with Taiwan

WASHINGTON – The State Department on Friday unveiled new rules for U.S. government contacts with Taiwan that are likely to anger China but appear to reimpose some restrictions that had been lifted by the Trump administration.

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More contagious COVID-19 variants could be to blame for rise in cases, CDC says

The U.S. is currently seeing an uptick in COVID-19 cases that could be fueled by the spread of more contagious virus variants, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Chinese COVID-19 vaccine maintains protection in variant-plagued Brazil

Sofia MoutinhoScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation.As potentially more dangerous coronavirus variants spread worldwide, scientists and clinicians have raced to discover how well the available COVID-19 vaccines protect against the mutant strains.

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Feds charge 3 more in massive California unemployment fraud

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Federal prosecutors said Friday that they have charged three Southern California women with using prison inmates' names to bilk a state agency out of a combined nearly $1.25 million in coronavirus-related unemployment benefits, the latest allegations in an ongoing scandal that has cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Biden wants $6.5 billion for new health agency to speed treatments

Jocelyn KaiserThe Biden administration today began to flesh out a proposal for a new agency—modeled on the military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—that would seek to speed the development of medical treatments by funding risky, innovative projects. The agency, dubbed ARPA-Health (ARPA-H), would be housed at the U.S.

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Nas, Eve, Lyor Cohen react to death of rapper-actor DMX

LOS ANGELES – Reaction to the death of Grammy-nominated rapper DMX who died Friday at 50.

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Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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