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Typhoon Haishen is poised to make landfall in southwestern Japan Sunday, bringing with it heavy rains and lashing winds. Forecasters predict it will then head toward the Korean peninsula.

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  • Weather

Southwestern Japan Braces For Powerful Typhoon Haishen

The storm expected to bring heavy rainfall and high-speed winds on Sunday. Authorities are urging residents of islands of Kyushu and Okinawa to exercise caution.

September 05, 2020
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By:
  • Jason Slotkin
People wait in a queue to register their names before giving their nasal swab samples to test for COVID-19 at a government health center in Hyderabad, India on Saturday. India's coronavirus cases have crossed 4 million.

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  • Health

India Coronavirus Cases Surpass 4 Million

India has the third-highest number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the world. It's been reporting new cases faster than any other country.

September 05, 2020
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By:
  • Matthew S. Schwartz
Left: Xi Lu had traveled to Wuhan in January to spend the Lunar New Year with his parents, having not been with his them for the holiday in over seven years. Lin Yang, an epidemiologist at Hong Kong Polytechnic University also traveled to Wuhan to visit her parents for the Lunar New Year. Each person found themselves stuck there with the enforcement of lockdown in the city.

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  • Asia

Whatever Happened To ... 2 Of The Visitors Who Got Stuck In Wuhan During The Pandemic

An epidemiologist and a grad school graduate who'd gone to see family reflect on how tough it was to be cut off — and what they learned from their months-long quarantine.

September 04, 2020
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By:
  • Pien Huang
GPB News NPR

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  • World

Global Conversation: British And Indian Teachers Discuss Teaching During The Pandemic

As they compare notes on the new school year, a teacher in India nearing retirement talks with a younger teacher in Britain about the obstacles and surprising revelations of teaching in the pandemic.

September 04, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
An unoccupied lifeboat drifts near Kodakarajima island. Japanese authorities are racing to find dozens of missing sailors from a cargo ship that sank in a typhoon.

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  • Asia

2nd Crew Member Found Alive From Cattle-Carrying Ship That Sank Off Japan

Another typhoon is bearing down on the search area as rescuers rush to find more survivors from the Gulf Livestock 1, which went down Wednesday with 43 crew and some 5,800 head of cattle aboard.

September 04, 2020
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
The view outside the Chinese technology company ByteDance in Beijing in August 2020. Trump's executive order outlaws transactions between U.S. citizens and ByteDance. American instructors who work for ByteDance subsidiary GOGOKID said they feel like their jobs are under threat.

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  • Technology

They Teach Chinese Kids English Online. Now They're Caught In Trump's War On TikTok

ByteDance-owned tutoring app GOGOKID employes about 4,000 American teachers. Trump's crack down on TikTok could mean those instructors will lose their jobs.

September 04, 2020
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
The cast of the Beijing People's Art Theatre production of <em>A Raisin in the Sun</em> rehearse onstage this past August.

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  • Theater

First Chinese-Language Production Of 'A Raisin In The Sun' Is Staged In Beijing

Lorraine Hansberry's play is about a Black family's struggle against racism in 1950s Chicago. At the Beijing People's Art Theatre, director Ying Da is working to bring that story to Chinese audiences.

September 04, 2020
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  • Emily Feng
The Gulf Livestock 1 cargo vessel sails through Port Phillip heading into Bass Strait in Australia in April 2019. Japanese rescuers were searching Thursday for the livestock ship carrying more than 40 crew members and thousands of animals.

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  • Asia

42 Crew, Nearly 6,000 Cows Missing After Ship Sinks In Storm-Tossed Seas Off Japan

The Gulf Livestock 1 reportedly capsized in heavy seas near the island of Amami Oshima just as a typhoon was passing through the area. Only one crew member is known to have survived.

September 03, 2020
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  • Scott Neuman
V Unbeatable, the dance troup from Mumbia that won the top prize on <em>America's Got Talent: The Champions</em> this year, are pictured with (left to right) Alesha Dixon, Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel, Terry Crews and Simon Cowell.

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  • Dance

Whatever Happened To ... V Unbeatable, Mumbai Dancers Who Won 'America's Got Talent'

In February, the group of young, acrobatic dancers took the top prize. But the pandemic has put their dreams on hold — and had a disastrous impact on family life.

September 03, 2020
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By:
  • Sushmita Pathak
GPB News NPR

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  • Asia

Hostility Toward China Is Growing In The U.S., Poll Numbers Show

Hostility toward China is growing in the U.S. over China's handling of the coronavirus and human rights abuses. But Chinese support for their government is stronger than ever.

September 02, 2020
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By:
  • Emily Feng
Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav appears in a courtroom of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in 2007.

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  • Asia

'Comrade Duch,' Infamous Commander Of Khmer Rouge Prison, Dies In Cambodia

Kaing Guek Eav oversaw Phnom Penh's notorious S-21 prison, where thousands of people were executed and tortured during the Khmer Rouge's terrifying rule in the 1970s.

September 02, 2020
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
GPB News NPR

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  • Education

How 3 Countries Are Educating Their Kids During The Pandemic

As parents, teachers and children across the globe struggle with how to return to school safely during the pandemic, we look at strategies in Mexico, South Korea and Greece.

September 02, 2020
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn,
  • Anthony Kuhn,
  • and 1 more
GPB News NPR

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  • Politics

News Brief: Trump Trip, NYC Schools, COVID-19 Hot Spot

President Trump travels to Kenosha, Wis., on Tuesday. Teachers in New York City schools move closer to a strike. And, India is emerging as the new global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic.

September 01, 2020
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By:
  • Rachel Martin and
  • Steve Inskeep
Workers and day laborers gather outside shuttered stores Monday in New Delhi. Once the world's fastest-growing major economy, India posted its steepest decline in gross domestic product in 24 years.

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  • World

Indian Economy Shrinks By 24% As The Country Sees Its Highest Coronavirus Numbers

"This year, we are facing an extraordinary situation," Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told a conference last week before GDP figures were released. "We are facing an act of God."

August 31, 2020
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
This Bornean horseshoe bat and other bat species can harbor coronaviruses. The nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance had its NIH research money cut for a project in China on bats and coronaviruses this spring — but just got a new multimillion dollar grant from the agency.

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  • Global Health

Group Whose NIH Grant For Virus Research Was Revoked Just Got A New Grant

EcoHealth Alliance is one of 11 recipients of funds to set up the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases. But the grant won't let them revisit earlier research on bats and coronavirus.

August 29, 2020
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  • Maria Godoy
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