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  Last update: 08:40 GMT 04.08.2020

  08:40 GMT 04.08.2020

  Tech

  US' Goal Was Not to Force Sale of TikTok US, but Ban App, China's ByteDance Says in Internal Letter

  President Donald Trump has reportedly approved a 45-day time frame for the Chinese firm ByteDance to agree to sell its now popular app TikTok to Microsoft Corp.

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  Last update: 05:16 GMT 04.08.2020

  05:16 GMT 04.08.2020

  World

  Trump Expects Only 4,000 US Troops to Remain in Afghanistan in November

  MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The US will reduce its military presence in Afghanistan to about 4,000 troops "very soon", US President Donald Trump said.

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  Last update: 07:38 GMT 04.08.2020

  07:38 GMT 04.08.2020

  Middle East

  Massive Fire Reported in Industrial Area Near Tehran

  Over the last few months, several blasts and fires have hit various industrial areas and facilities across the Islamic Republic, leaving several people dead and dozens injured.

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  Last update: 07:00 GMT 04.08.2020

  07:00 GMT 04.08.2020

  Opinion

  Test and Trace Programme 'Undermined' by UK Government Not Following the Law, Data Expert Says

  Trust between public and government is under threat as a result of how the state is managing patient data amid attempts to tackle the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, according to rights based organisations such as the Open Rights Group and medConfidential.

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  Last update: 06:23 GMT 04.08.2020

  06:23 GMT 04.08.2020

  Asia & Pacific

  Beijing Ready to Retaliate If All Chinese Journalists Forced to Leave US - Global Times

  MOSCOW (Sputnik) - China has prepared for a worst-case scenario, in which all Chinese journalists will have to leave the United States amid an ongoing row, and is ready to take retaliatory measures concerning US journalists based in Hong Kong, Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the country's official newspaper the Global Times, said on Tuesday.

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  Last update: 07:35 GMT 04.08.2020

  07:35 GMT 04.08.2020

  Europe

  Swedish Government Party Wants to Force Imams, Rabbis to Wed Homosexuals

  According to the proposal by the Green Party of Sweden, part of the ruling "red-green" coalition, imams, rabbis, pastors, and other priests who refuse to marry homosexuals will no longer be allowed to perform weddings at all.

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  Last update: 05:52 GMT 04.08.2020

  05:52 GMT 04.08.2020

  World

  COVID-19 Updates: Number of Infected in Latin America Surpasses 5 Million

  As new COVID-19 outbreaks are being confirmed in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia, countries across the world are reintroducing quarantine measures and imposing mandatory coronavirus test on arrivals from high-risk areas in order to curb the pandemic.

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  Last update: 06:12 GMT 04.08.2020

  06:12 GMT 04.08.2020

  India

  Indian Army Defuses IED Bomb Ahead of Anniversary of Revocation of Kashmir’s Special Status - Video

  New Delhi (Sputnik): India's security agencies issued a high alert in Delhi following information about the infiltration of terrorists into the country in groups of three to five to carry out a major attack.