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The rules aim at "protecting the legitimate rights and interests" of Chinese people and companies, and safeguarding the country's interests, said the commerce ministry.

Mainland China reported 33 new COVID19 cases on Jan. 8, down from 53 reported a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Saturday.

Deutsche Bank is expected to agree to pay more than $100 million to settle charges related to allegedly violating antibribery laws as it tried to win business in places like China, the New York Times reported on Friday.

Last year tied with 2016 as the world's warmest on record, rounding off the hottest decade globally as the impacts of climate change intensified, the European Union's Earth observation service said on Friday.

Spain's capital Madrid and much of the neighbouring region of CastillaLa Mancha were on high alert on Friday for what meteorologists expect to be the heaviest snowfall in decades, brought by the Storm Philomena.

Germany reported a record 1,188 daily COVID19 deaths on Friday, only days after further tightening a national lockdown amid fears that a more transmissible variant of the coronavirus may put additional strain on struggling hospitals.

The United Arab Emirates will reopen all its land, sea and air entry points with Qatar starting Saturday, state news agency WAM reported on Friday.

Swedish lawmakers on Friday passed a bill that gives the government the temporary power to shut shopping centres and public transport and to fine people who break social distancing rules as it struggles to slow the COVID19 pandemic.

The Norwegian government on Friday proposed to raise a national levy on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions more than threefold to 2,000 Norwegian crowns ($237) per tonne by 2030 to help reach the country's climate goals.

Indonesian Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the suspected mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, walked free from prison on Friday after serving 10 years for setting up a militant training camp.

The violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is intensifying scrutiny over security at an inauguration ceremony for Presidentelect Joe Biden already reshaped by a pandemic and the prospect that his predecessor may not attend.

Chinese authorities shut down some entry and exit ramps of a highway connecting Beijing and Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital of Hebei province, which is fighting a cluster of coronavirus infections.

Biden alleged Trump has unleashed an all-out assault on institutions of US democracy from the outset and the Capitol Hill violence was "the culmination of that unrelenting attack"

Hall of Fame golfers Annika Sorenstam and Gary Player, along with the late Olympian Babe Didrikson Zaharias, have been presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced Thursday.

COVID19 vaccine deliveries under the COVAX facility coordinated by the World Health Organization to support lowerincome countries could start this month, WHO immunization director Kate O'Brien said on Thursday.

Soldiers entered Ghana's parliament to break up a scuffle between rival lawmakers at odds over last month's elections, hours before President Nana AkufoAddo was due to be sworn in on Thursday.