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Yearender 2020: Clampdown in Hong Kong, treatment of Uyghurs wors
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New Delhi [India], December 31 (ANI): It was a year that worsened China's global image. While COVID-19, which emerged in its city of Wuhan, was a factor, China's coercive tactics with countries in its neighbourhood and beyond, its clampdown on people in Hong Kong in breach of "one governme
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Yearender 2020: After halt and go, 2021 will be a year of high hop
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New Delhi [India], December 31 (ANI): After a gloomy year that put the world to a standstill with sporting events getting postponed or cancelled due to the coronavirus, 2021 has a lot to offer for sports lovers with the Tokyo Olympics topping the list.
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Yearender 2020: It has been a challenging year, but we dealt with
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New Delhi [India], December 31 (ANI): As the coronavirus pandemic ravaged 2020, Kiren Rijiju, Union Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs, feels the dreaded year was "challenging" with athletes being deprived of international competitions going into the Tokyo Olympics.
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Yearender 2020: Celebration of festivals affected adversely amid C
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New Delhi [India], December 30 (ANI): As coronavirus continues to wreak havoc across the world, people around the globe restricted their enthusiasm to celebrate festivals this year.
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Yearender 2020: Sports a welcome relief in difficult year with 'ta
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New Delhi [India], December 30 (ANI): The coronavirus pandemic has ravaged 2020 and while efforts to contain the spread of the virus are still on, people across the globe are looking at taking baby steps towards normalcy with an eye on safety protocols.
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Yearender 2020: Biggest shutdown of entertainment industry due to
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New Delhi [India], December 30 (ANI): The year 2020 saw one of the biggest global shutdown of the entertainment industry. The impact of this worldwide film and TV production shutdown was perhaps felt nowhere more than in India, where the world's most prolific film industry was forced to go o
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Yearender 2020: Sporting legends we lost
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New Delhi [India], December 30 (ANI): The dreaded 2020 is finally coming to an end. If the global effect of the coronavirus pandemic wasn't bad enough, the sporting world also lost some of its favourite pupil this year.
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Yearender 2020: Health diplomacy dominates India's foreign policy
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New Delhi [India], December 29 (ANI): When 2020 began, no one might have envisaged that it will be marred by unprecedented health crises that will bring the world to a standstill, overwhelm the health care systems, and lead to the suspension of cross-border travel for several months.
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Yearender 2020: The year NATO realised the China threat
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New Delhi [India], December 29 (ANI): The year 2020 saw the world struggling with the 'new normal' and responding to the economic damage induced by the Wuhan-originated coronavirus. It also witnessed the world leaders acknowledging the rise of China as an "imminent threat" to all countries i
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Yearender 2020: Amid the dark clouds of pandemic, IPL was just the
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New Delhi [India], December 29 (ANI): Before the world could even warm up to 2020, the novel coronavirus brought everything to a standstill. Sporting events were no anomaly. With India struggling to latch onto any ray of hope, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the
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Yearender 2020: The rise of Pakistan Democratic Movement
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Islamabad [Pakistan], December 29 (ANI): The year 2020 has been a tumultuous period for Pakistan. From raging opposition protests, international criticism, severe human rights violations, and the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging through the country, Prime Minister Imran Khan's government has faced
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Yearender 2020: When the Trump Card didn't work in US
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Washington (DC) [US], December 29 (ANI): The year 2020 had a fair share of twists when it came to the case of the now soon-to-be outgoing US President Donald Trump as this year, was one of the, if not, the roughest year in his four year term, courtesy the coronavirus pandemic.
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