Anger at Turkish government spills over at earthquake anniversary vigil

[ad_1] More than 10,000 people gathered early on Tuesday to hold a vigil for the first anniversary of the devastating earthquakes that hit southeastern Turkey, as some protested against what they called government negligence in the aftermath. The magnitude 7.8 tremor, the deadliest disaster in Turkey’s modern history, levelled towns and parts of cities in…

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How a U.S. embassy post about giraffes became an outlet for despair about China’s tumbling stock markets

[ad_1] HONG KONG — The post by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing was about protecting wild giraffes in Africa. But social media users in China wanted to talk about something else: the state of the Chinese economy, especially its faltering stock markets. Tens of thousands of users on Weibo, a popular Chinese social media platform,…

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