On Wednesday, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said the US troops stationed in South Korea would not be part of initial negotiations with the DPRK.
On Thursday, the People's Daily's overseas edition also published an article condemning the students' move, stressing that freedom of speech is not a "fig leaf" to cover up separatist notions.
On the other hand, the country's stock of hogs started to rebound in November, increasing by 2 percent compared with the previous month, the first month-on-month rise since November last year. The number of breeding sows in stock expanded by 4 percent over the previous month, a growth for two consecutive months, said Wang Junxun, an official from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, at a news conference on Dec 17.
On Tuesday, Kemp issued a recommendation that residents "commit to wearing a mask", even as he sues Atlanta officials for mandating them. Lawyers for Georgia's attorney general are scheduled to argue that case in court starting Tuesday.
On Wednesday, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reiterated that asking people to stay at home and shutting down population movement is buying time and reducing the pressure on health systems, but the measures on their own will not extinguish epidemics.
On the Democratic side, there are 11 contenders seeking the party's presidential nomination.
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On a quiet night in the dry season, as several stray dogs wander the beach on the Gulf of Guinea, a leatherback sea turtle suddenly sticks its head out from the soft sand and looks around discreetly.
On the ocean bottom, Britt's crew for the second consecutive year found scant evidence of a "cold pool," the east-west barrier of extremely cold, salty water that traditionally concentrates Pacific cod and walleye pollock, the species that make fast-food fish sandwiches, in the southeastern Bering Sea.
On Thursday, the market also traded 165,758 tons of China Certified Emissions Reductions (CCER), which are companies' voluntary reduction of emissions achieved via means such as afforestation or employing clean energy technologies.
On Tuesday, Zhang Wuya and five accomplices were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 20 months to four years for using high-tech equipment to provide answers to 33 students during the exam in December 2016.