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Belarusian opposition politician Maxim Znak was taken from his office by masked people wearing plain clothes, the Interfax news agency cited his allies as saying on Wednesday.

This week New Delhi and Beijing accused each other of firing in the air during renewed confrontation at the unmarked border where opposing troops are positioned in close proximity.

The joint letter is the largest such coordinated effort so far as Beijing faces increased international backlash over policies including its treatment of ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang and new security laws in Hong Kong.

The U.K. and EU are unlikely to reach a trade deal, Jean-Claude Juncker, the former president of the European Commission, said, as both sides start a new round of talks.

Experts have said that while there is no pressing food shortage, farms have been roiled as the coronavirus pandemic upended supply chains and curbed movements.

Some publicly listed companies have disclosed instances of "accidental" stock sales in the last few weeks.

The public offering of a bottled water giant has propelled its founder into the ranks of the three richest people in China, thanks to an ownership structure that reflects some potential risks of investing in Chinese companies.

South Korea has one of the world’s highest proportion of self-employed people, about 25% of the job market, making it very vulnerable to downturns.

Eight years after Japan's Democratic Party was ousted and began unravelling, opposition groups are once again unifying for a general election that could come soon, but they face an uphill battle to dent the current ruling bloc's performance.

The development comes as Taipei distances itself from China ahead of the U.S. presidential election and as China steps up military activity around the island.

The testimony marks the first time members of Myanmar's military have admitted to what the U.N. and international prosecutors call a genocidal campaign against the Rohingya, NBC News reported.

Chinese inflation data for August is expected, with the consumer price index and producer price index for that month set to be out at around 9:30 a.m. HK/SIN on Wednesday.

In a statement, Qiagen CEO Thierry Bernard added that the antigen tests are meant to supplement, not replace, the molecular, or PCR, tests, which are the most accurate tests on the market.

Apple, which hit a $2 trillion market cap on Aug. 19, is down about $325 billion in that time period.

Another massive drop in tech put the Nasdaq Composite in correction territory and led to the S&P 500's worst three-day stretch in months. 

"Although Epic portrays itself as a modern corporate Robin Hood, in reality it is a multi-billion dollar enterprise that simply wants to pay nothing for the tremendous value it derives from the App Store," Apple says in the filing.

Infectious disease experts and scientists have said they worry the vaccine approval process in the U.S. could be polluted by politics, not science.

Microsoft said the new console, called the Xbox Series S, is the "smallest Xbox ever" and will cost $299.

Disney is facing backlash after the final credits for its latest film "Mulan" thanked government entities in Xinjiang, the province where Muslims have faced human rights abuses.

Matthew Robson's father gave him a bottle of 18-year-old Macallan single malt every year since his birth.