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Will Chinese auto investment jump Joe Biden’s tariff walls?
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中新社阿斯塔纳5月20日电 (记者 单璐 张硕)5月20日，中共中央政治局委员、外交部长王毅在阿斯塔纳出席上海合作组织外长会议期间，就台湾地区“5·20就职仪式”阐明了中方严正立场，强调一个中国原则是维护台海和平的定海神针。
Read more王毅：中方对伊朗总统和外长不幸罹难深表哀悼
中新社阿斯塔纳5月20日电 (记者 单璐 张硕)当地时间5月20日，中共中央政治局委员、外交部长王毅在阿斯塔纳同哈萨克斯坦副总理兼外长努尔特列乌共同会见记者时，对伊朗总统和外长不幸罹难深表哀悼。
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中新社北京5月20日电 (记者 赵建华)中国—沙特高级别联合委员会财金分委会第三次会议20日在北京举行。
Read more1-4月中国财政收入80926亿元
中新社北京5月20日电 (记者 赵建华)中国财政部20日公布的数据显示，今年1-4月，全国一般公共预算收入80926亿元(人民币，下同)，同比下降2.7%，扣除去年同期中小微企业缓税入库抬高基数、去年年中出台的减税政策翘尾减收等特殊因素影响后，可比增长2%左右，继续保持恢复性增长态势。
Read more五天打三“虎” 中国反腐力度不减
中新社北京5月20日电 (张素 谢雁冰)中国官方在5月16日至20日通报三“虎”分别被查，显示反腐败工作力度不减、尺度不松。
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Read moreTaiwan’s new president takes office and calls on China to cease hostile actions
Lai Ching-te uses inauguration speech to push for peace in the region and says future of Taiwan important to future of the world
Lai Ching-te has been sworn in as Taiwan’s new president, urging China to “cease their political and military intimidation against Taiwan” and to keep the world free from the fear of more war.
Lai was inaugurated on Monday morning at the Japanese colonial-era presidential office in central Taipei, taking over from Tsai Ing-wen, whose eight years in power saw a deterioration in relations with Beijing.
Continue reading...Read moreTaiwan's new president calls on China to stop making threats – video
In his first address since being inaugurated as president, Lai Ching-te said peace was the 'only option' and called on China to stop making political and military threats towards Taiwan.
Lai said the new government would make no concessions on democracy and freedom and called for cooperation between China and Taiwan, starting with tourism and student links. He continued: 'Let us together pursue peace and mutual prosperity'
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Read more'Stop threatening us', Taiwan's new president tells China
He urged Beijing to replace confrontation with dialogue, shortly after being sworn in on Monday.
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中新社北京5月20日电 (记者 郭超凯)5月20日上午，中国第十支赴联合国南苏丹任务区维和警队出征仪式在公安部常备维和警队训练基地举行。22日凌晨，12名中国维和警察将乘机赴南苏丹执行维和任务。
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中新网长沙5月20日电(向一鹏)湖南省自然资源厅20日称，为科学、有效应对2024年地质灾害的发生，最大程度减少因灾人员伤亡和财产损失，湖南省地质灾害防治工作领导小组办公室编制了《湖南省2024年度地质灾害防治方案》(下称《方案》)，现已印发实施。
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中新网南宁5月20日电(黄姿娜)广西壮族自治区应急管理厅20日发布消息，鉴于影响广西的降雨系统已减弱，广西气象台于19日17时解除暴雨黄色预警，目前广西全区主要江河水势平稳，依据《广西壮族自治区防汛抗旱应急预案》规定，经广西壮族自治区防汛抗旱指挥部领导批准，决定于20日12时终止广西区内防汛四级应急响应。
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中新社北京5月20日电 (记者 孙自法)国际超级双极光雷达网(SuperDARN)2024年研讨会5月20日在北京开幕。作为中国首个高频相干散射雷达探测网络，国家重大科技基础设施“空间环境地基综合监测网”(子午工程二期)重大设备之一的北方中纬高频雷达网，当日在该国际会议上向全球发布首批科学探测结果。
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中新网北京5月20日电 (记者 张素)“2023年是贯彻落实党的二十大精神开局之年，更是国家治理发生深刻革新、全面依法治国取得显著成效的一年。”20日发布的法治蓝皮书有此论述。
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中新网天津5月20日电 (记者 王君妍)记者20日从天津市教委获悉，20日，《市教委市民族宗教委关于印发天津市关于进一步规范高中阶段学校招生政策照顾的实施方案的通知》(以下简称《通知》)及《政策解读》正式公布，明确自2027年中考起，天津取消市、区级优秀学生及优秀学生干部政策照顾并调整少数民族考生政策照顾范围。
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中新网宜昌5月20日电 (陈龙 李承志 苏文睿)一趟满载磷矿石的货运专列，20日上午10时许从湖北当阳至远安支线铁路(以下简称“当远铁路”)嫘祖站缓缓驶出，开往国铁焦柳线岩屋庙站，这标志着当远铁路正式开通运营。
Read more王毅：中方对伊朗总统和外长不幸罹难深表哀悼
当地时间2024年5月20日，中共中央政治局委员、外交部长王毅在阿斯塔纳同哈萨克斯坦副总理兼外长努尔特列乌共同会见记者时，对伊朗总统和外长不幸罹难深表哀悼。
Read more王毅：一个中国原则是维护台海和平的定海神针
当地时间2024年5月20日，中共中央政治局委员、外交部长王毅在阿斯塔纳出席上海合作组织外长会议期间，就台湾地区“5·20就职仪式”阐明了中方严正立场，强调一个中国原则是维护台海和平的定海神针。
Read more国务院台办发言人就台湾地区领导人“5·20”讲话表态
中新社北京5月20日电 国务院台办发言人陈斌华20日就台湾地区领导人“5·20”讲话中有关两岸关系内容表示，当前，台海形势复杂严峻，根源在于民进党顽固坚持“台独”分裂立场，拒不承认体现一个中国原则的“九二共识”，勾连外部势力不断进行谋“独”挑衅。今天台湾地区领导人的讲话，顽固坚持“台独”立场，大肆宣扬分裂谬论，煽动两岸对立对抗，妄图“倚外谋独”、“以武谋独”。要和平不要战争、要发展不要衰退、要交流不要分离、要合作不要对抗，是岛内的主流民意。台湾地区领导人罔顾民意、逆流而动，释放了谋“独”挑衅、破坏台海和平稳定的危险信号，充分暴露了其“台独工作者”的本性。
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Read moreLai Ching-te takes office as Taiwan's new president in swearing-in ceremony – video
Lai was sworn in at Taiwan's presidential office in central Taipei, taking over from Tsai Ing-wen, having served as her vice president for the past four years. His role as Taiwan's new president puts him at the helm of the self-ruled island as China ramps up military and political pressure on Taiwan.
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5月20日下午，国防部长董军在北京八一大楼会见南非海军司令洛贝斯。
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The Guardian’s Helen Davidson and Chi Hui Lin are at the inauguration in Taipei. They have this report:
It is a sea of bucket hats outside the Presidential Office.
Continue reading...Read more习近平就伊朗总统莱希在直升机事故中遇难向伊朗第一副总统穆赫贝尔致唁电
新华社北京5月20日电 5月20日，国家主席习近平就伊朗伊斯兰共和国总统莱希在直升机事故中不幸遇难向伊朗第一副总统穆赫贝尔致唁电。习近平代表中国政府和中国人民表示深切哀悼，向穆赫贝尔第一副总统、莱希总统亲属以及伊朗政府和人民表示诚挚慰问。
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中新网北京5月20日电 (郭超凯 谢雁冰)中国外交部发言人汪文斌20日主持例行记者会。
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中新网5月20日电 据水利部微信公众号消息，近日，水利部印发《水预算管理试点方案》(以下简称《试点方案》)，在全国探索开展水预算管理试点。
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中新网北京5月20日电 (记者 郭超凯 黄钰钦)中国外交部发言人汪文斌20日主持例行记者会。
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中新网北京5月20日电 (郭超凯 谢雁冰)中国外交部发言人汪文斌20日主持例行记者会。
Read more看图学习·博物致知丨守护好中华文脉 跟着总书记打卡博物馆
“一座博物馆就是一所大学校”“博物馆很重要，我从小就爱看博物馆，小时候北京的博物馆我差不多都看过了”“博物馆建设要更完善、更成体系，同时发挥好博物馆的教育功能”……在国内考察中，习近平总书记曾经多次走进当地博物馆，了解馆藏文物的收藏、保护、研究情况，对博物馆建设和利用作出重要指示。一起来学习！
Read more外交部驳斥赖清德言论：推行“台独”分裂注定失败
中新网北京5月20日电 (记者 郭超凯)中国外交部发言人汪文斌5月20日主持例行记者会。
Read more图文故事｜总书记这样指导旅游强国建设
“着力完善现代旅游业体系，加快建设旅游强国，让旅游业更好服务美好生活、促进经济发展、构筑精神家园、展示中国形象、增进文明互鉴。”
Read more国务院台办发言人就台湾地区领导人“5·20”讲话表态
国务院台办发言人陈斌华20日就台湾地区领导人“5·20”讲话中有关两岸关系内容表示，当前，台海形势复杂严峻，根源在于民进党顽固坚持“台独”分裂立场，拒不承认体现一个中国原则的“九二共识”，勾连外部势力不断进行谋“独”挑衅。今天台湾地区领导人的讲话，顽固坚持“台独”立场，大肆宣扬分裂谬论，煽动两岸对立对抗，妄图“倚外谋独”、“以武谋独”。要和平不要战争、要发展不要衰退、要交流不要分离、要合作不要对抗，是岛内的主流民意。台湾地区领导人罔顾民意、逆流而动，释放了谋“独”挑衅、破坏台海和平稳定的危险信号，充分暴露了其“台独工作者”的本性。
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Read moreTsai Ing-wen, the leader who brought Taiwan closer to the US, bows out
Taiwan’s first female president has presided over big social changes, but her main legacy is the cultivation of the island’s rising prominence on the world stage
In a riot of yellow braids, glitter and spandex, garnished with a huge yellow water lily, Taiwan’s latest global celebrity danced her heart out for the island’s diminutive, softly spoken president, whose mild manners belie her outsized legacy.
Tsai Ing-wen, 67, stepped down as Taiwan’s president on Monday. Before handing over the keys, on Wednesday she welcomed Taiwan’s most famous drag queen, Nymphia Wind, for a live performance in the presidential office. After sashaying to Lady Gaga’s Marry the Night, Nymphia Wind, who recently won the 16th season of the US reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race, thanked Tsai for “all these years of making Taiwan the first in so many things”.
Continue reading...Read moreChina hits back at US and EU as trade rows deepen
Last week, Washington announce new tariffs on Chinese imports including electric cars and solar panels.
Read moreProtectionism will ‘haunt’ renewable energy industry, says China solar executive
Chinese companies and officials hit back against US and European trade barriers
Read moreThe battlegrounds that could decide a US-China war over Taiwan
Five key military contests are likely to determine the outcome of a conflict
Read moreWuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control; Wuhan: A Documentary Novel – reviews
Dali L Yang’s critique of China’s response in the early days of the Covid pandemic is thoroughgoing if academic, while poet Liao Yiwu’s account mixes fact and fiction to extraordinary effect
Cast your mind back, if you will, to the beginning of the pandemic, before the World Health Organization had coined the term Covid-19. Back then, it was the “Wuhan virus”, a mysterious pathogen from a city that few people outside China had visited.
On 12 January 2020, China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published the virus’s genome on an international database, permitting scientists anywhere in the world to see that it was a coronavirus closely related to Sars – the pathogen that had caused a mini-pandemic in 2002-2004.
Continue reading...Read moreAmerica’s approach to China’s rapid growth has lessons for us all | Larry Elliott
Protectionism in the form of tariffs is justified but the focus will be on whether Beijing retaliates
The global economy is fragmenting and a new era of protectionism has dawned. Dreams by free marketeers of a frictionless world in which goods and services moved seamlessly from country to country are dead.
That was the clear message from Joe Biden’s decision last week to target China with a range of new, much higher tariffs on electric vehicles and a range of other products crucial to sectors seen by the White House as vital to the future health of the US economy and to national security.
Continue reading...Read moreChina retaliates against the US and EU with anti-dumping probe
Tit-for-tat investigation into thermoplastics follows a pattern established during the Trump presidency
Read moreAre the US and Chinese economies really about to start ‘decoupling’?
Experts say Biden’s tariffs on Chinese clean tech goods are not the trade-war move some fear
Read moreChina’s ‘AI-in-a-box’ products threaten Big Tech’s cloud growth strategies
Huawei leads trend of providing companies with means to power their own artificial intelligence apps rather than through public cloud
Read moreLai Ching-te, the political brawler who went from a Taiwan mining village to the presidency
Friends and analysts say Lai’s tough upbringing in a working-class family has prepared him well for his next opponent: China
The house itself is a modest, two-storey dwelling on a larger parcel of picturesque land. Mist floats down from the jungled hills behind, settling in the narrow lane that winds towards the rundown remnants of a mine.
The only people there on the day the Guardian visits are curious tourists. They are there for one thing: to see the family home of Lai Ching-te, Taiwan’s next president.
Continue reading...Read moreCaught by the Tides review – two-decade relationship tells story of China’s epic transformation
Cannes film festival
The 20-year failed romance between a singer and a dodgy music promoter becomes the vehicle for director Jia Zhangke’s latest exploration of China’s momentous recent history
As so often in the past, Chinese film-maker Jia Zhangke swims down into an ocean of sadness and strangeness; his new film is a mysterious quest narrative with a dynamic, westernised musical score. It tells a human story of a failed romance spanning 20 years, and brings this into parallel with a larger panorama: the awe-inspiring scale of millennial change that has transformed China in the same period, a futurist fervour for quasi-capitalist innovation that has turned out to co-exist with some very old-fashioned state coercion.
Caught by the Tides reflects with a kind of numb astonishment at all the novelties that the country has been required to welcome, all the vast upheavals for which the people have had to make sacrifices. The film shows us the mobster-businessmen who have done well in modern China, the patriotic ecstasy of Beijing getting picked to host the 2008 Olympic Games, the creation of the Three Gorges hydroelectric dam which meant so much unacknowledged pain for the displaced communities. (This latter was the subject of Jia’s Venice Golden Lion winner Still Life in 2006.) And finally of course there is the misery of the Covid lockdown.
Continue reading...Read moreHow China is using AI news anchors to deliver its propaganda
News avatars are proliferating on social media and experts say they will spread as the technology becomes more accessible
The news presenter has a deeply uncanny air as he delivers a partisan and pejorative message in Mandarin: Taiwan’s outgoing president, Tsai Ing-wen, is as effective as limp spinach, her period in office beset by economic under performance, social problems and protests.
“Water spinach looks at water spinach. Turns out that water spinach isn’t just a name,” says the presenter, in an extended metaphor about Tsai being “Hollow Tsai” – a pun related to the Mandarin word for water spinach.
Continue reading...Read moreThe quiet Japanese island paradise on the frontline of growing Taiwan-China tensions
Yonaguni is a tourist hotspot – but its location just 100km from Taiwan means residents must wrestle with the creeping militarisation of their home
In the minds of many Japanese people, Yonaguni is a sleepy paradise of crystal-clear sea and pristine beaches, where miniature horses graze on clifftops and empty roads dissect fields of sugar cane; where tourists dive with hammerhead sharks and marvel at the Ayamihabiru – the world’s largest Atlas moth.
But this tiny island, located far closer to Taipei than Tokyo, now finds itself at the centre of regional tensions triggered by a new round of Chinese aggression towards Taiwan.
Continue reading...Read moreA misguided move on Chinese tariffs
New Biden levies on Beijing undermine the global economy and the climate transition
Read morePutin and Xi no longer have a partnership of equals
Vladimir Putin’s visit to China was a show of strength, but in reality he needs Beijing's support for his war in Ukraine.
Read moreChina to cut mortgage rates as part of plan to prop up property market
Local authorities will be allowed to turn unsold homes from developers into affordable housing
China will cut mortgage rates and allow local authorities to turn unsold homes from developers into affordable housing, in a series of drastic measures by Beijing aimed at propping up the country’s faltering property market.
The People’s Bank of China said it would scrap the minimum rate of interest and reduce down-payment ratios to 15% for first-time buyers and 25% for second homes. It will also create a 300bn yuan (£32.8bn) facility to support local state-owned companies to buy homes at reasonable prices, it said in a series of statements on Friday.
Continue reading...Read moreInside Britain’s Chinese student boom
Universities are increasingly reliant on a growing cohort. What does it mean on campus and off?
Read moreThe age of green protectionism
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Read morePutin visits China’s ‘Little Moscow’ as allies seek to cement economic ties – as it happened
This live blog is now closed, you can read more on this story here: Putin and Xi announce plans to strengthen military ties in Beijing
While Putin’s visit to China continues, back in Russia his deputy foreign minister has said Moscow will respond in kind to any ambiguous nuclear behaviour from the West.
According to Ryabkov, the West has adopted a stance of strategic uncertainty and ambiguity towards Russia, trying to make it difficult for Moscow to predict how NATO will react in various situations, including with nuclear weapons.
Continue reading...Read moreChinese social media companies remove posts ‘showing off wealth and worshipping money’
Targeting posts boasting of personal wealth appears to be part of campaign to ‘purify the internet cultural environment’
Chinese social media companies have launched a new crackdown on user content, targeting posts that show off personal wealth and financial extravagance.
In a statement posted online on Wednesday, Weibo said it had spent this month carrying out special management work on “undesirable value-orientated content”, including content “showing off wealth and worshipping money”.
Continue reading...Read moreArup lost $25mn in Hong Kong deepfake video conference scam
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Read morePutin and Xi vow to co-operate against ‘destructive and hostile’ US
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Read moreAn Unfinished Film review – moving and mysterious movie about China’s Covid crisis
Cannes film festival
Lou Ye’s docu-realist film starts as sophisticated comedy, morphs from looking like a zombie apocalypse to intimate drama, and evolves into a tribute to how a nation handled trauma
Out of agony and chaos, Chinese film-maker Lou Ye has created something mysterious, moving and even profound – a kind of multilayered docu-realist film, evidently inspired by a real-life situation in film production. As well as everything else, the film meditates on what it means to be “unfinished”. Very few of us will leave this life with a satisfied sense of everything achieved, complete, squared away. To be mortal is to feel that things have ended without being finished. It is possibly his best film since the courageous Tiananmen Square drama Summer Palace from 2006 – and set near Wuhan, the city in which his 2012 film Mystery was set in the days when that place was internationally known – if at all – simply for being almost scarily vast and impersonal.
It is 2019 and a film director and his crew gather in a production studio and excitedly unbox a big 00s-era computer, containing the digitised video and audio files for a film he had had to abandon 10 years before – without even having a title – because he had refused to bow to his producers’ demands to soften the content. It is a story of a gay man’s passion for another man who is involved with someone else. Getting the unfinished film now is clearly the end result of legal wrangling. (Lou has evidently had access to genuine footage from a real production.)
Continue reading...Read moreZelenskiy says situation is ‘difficult’ on visit to Kharkiv; Putin calls China relationship an international ‘stabilising factor’ – as it happened
Ukrainian military says its has forced Russia to reduce tempo of offensive; Russian president thanks Xi Jinping for ‘trying to solve Ukraine crisis’. This live blog is closed
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Vladimir Putin has said that Russia-China cooperation is not directed against any other power and is a stabilising factor for the world, during his meeting with Xi Jinping.
It is of crucial significance that relations between Russia and China are not opportunistic and are not directed against anyone. Our cooperation in world affairs today acts as one of the main stabilising factors in the international arena.”
In our new journey we intend to remain good neighbours, trusted friends and reliable partners, consistently strengthening the relationship between our two nations … defending international equality.”
Continue reading...Read morePutin thanks Xi for input on Ukraine and calls for 'multipolar world order' – video
During his state visit to China, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, told a joint press conference with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, that he was 'grateful to our Chinese friends and colleagues for the initiatives they put forward to solve the Ukrainian problem'. He also said the two countries had 'independent ... foreign policies' and called for a more 'just and democratic multipolar world order'
Continue reading...Read morePutin and Xi announce plans to strengthen military ties in Beijing
Russian leader praises ‘comradely’ talks with Chinese president ahead of concert to mark 75 years of ‘friendship’
Russia and China have announced they will deepen their already close military ties, as Vladimir Putin met Xi Jinping in Beijing on his first foreign trip since being inaugurated for a new term as Russia’s president.
It is the latest in a string of statements and signals that the warm relationship between the two countries is as strong as it has ever been.
Continue reading...Read moreChina must learn from Japan’s ‘lost decades’
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Read moreMicrosoft offers staff to relocate from China
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Read moreXi welcomes Putin in Beijing as state visit gets under way – video
The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, greeted his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, at a welcome ceremony ahead of bilateral talks. Putin is expected to have several meetings with Xi and other officials that will emphasise their commitment to the 'no limits' pact they signed in 2022, just before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine
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Zhang Zhan's condition is unclear several days after her scheduled release from jail.
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Read morePutin arrives in China on mission to deepen partnership with Xi
During the Russian leader’s two-day visit, the war in Ukraine, energy and trade will be on the agenda
President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Beijing for talks with his Chinese counterpart and “old friend” Xi Jinping as he seeks to deepen ties after launching some of Russia’s most significant incursions into Ukraine since its invasion in 2022.
It is Putin’s second visit to Beijing in less than a year, and his first foreign visit since being sworn in for a new term that will keep him in power until at least 2030. The visit will also celebrate 75 years since the Soviet Union recognised the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
Continue reading...Read morePutin arrives in China's 'Little Moscow' as allies aim to deepen trade
It comes a day after the Russian and Chinese leaders pledged a "new era" of partnership between their countries.
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Read moreThe escaped dissident still pursued decades on by China
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Workers harvest potatoes in Akkar, Lebanon, May 9, 2024. Potatoes are considered as a source of livelihood for many families here.Workers harvest potatoes in Akkar, Lebanon, May 9, 2024. Potatoes are considered as a source of livelihood for many families here. (Photo by Khaled Habashiti/Xinhua)
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