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Old Xi Jinping speech resurfaces amid US trade war
China has urged the United States to meet it "halfway" as President Donald Trump continued to escalate his trade war against ...
Posts falsely claim sodium fluoride is the leading cause of cancer
A video circulating on Instagram claims sodium fluoride is the leading cause of cancer. The post pegs its evidence on similar ...
Old footage of mud volcano in Malaysia falsely linked to Myanmar earthquake
An old video of a mud volcano erupting in Malaysia has circulated online, falsely linked to a devastating 7.7-magnitude quake ...
Experts refute posts likening AirPods to microwave ovens
Using AirPods is not akin to "wearing a mini microwave" next to the brain, engineering professors told AFP, branding such ...
Photos show cat rescued after 2024 earthquake in Taiwan, not in Thailand
After a 7.7-magnitude quake that struck Myanmar in late March killed thousands of people and toppled a building in ...
AI image of wildlife damage surfaces as students protest India forest clearing
Indian media reported in late March that the government in the southern Hyderabad city began clearing an urban forest, sparking protests from students in an adjacent university. But a widely shared ...
No evidence for Musk's $1 billion National Parks survey claim
In a March interview, Elon Musk claimed that the US National Parks Service spent nearly $1 billion on a survey polling visitors about their experiences at the federally operated public spaces. Since ...