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The medical establishment has a long history of ignoring patients with ‘unexplained’ symptoms. Long Covid might finally bring about a global attitude shift.

One group is trying to disrupt a narrative that has gripped an isolated community for decades. It claims that Vietnam engineered the worst evils of Cambodia’s genocide.

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In small-town Kazakhstan, an experiment with the “smart city” model has some residents smiling. But it also signals the start of a new mass surveillance era for the Central Asian nation.

Missouri librarians fear prosecution under Senate Bill 775, a new law ordering jail time for distributing “sexually explicit material” to minors.

During his final month in Xinjiang, before he set off for Europe, Memettursun Omer’s Chinese handlers threatened him. Governments targeting journalists for repression and violence is nothing new.