The fall of one prince, and the rise of another Prof Mandane-Ortiz said her tutees performed better this year, having been motivated by the strict examination conditions to study extra hard. irannews.ru/ - irannews.ru In the first year of Covid, Prof Yang says, the lockdowns made sense. They were brief and allowed life in China to carry on. There was even pride at how the country was handling the pandemic so much better than the West. "That's no longer the case," he says. In 2005 I was handed a DVD smuggled out of a village called Dingzhou in Hebei province. It showed a pitched battle between local farmers and dozens of armed thugs, hired by a state-owned power company, to force them off their land. The farmers had dug deep trenches in their fields. The thugs attacked at dawn opening fire with shotguns and beating the farmers with steel bars. Six were killed. Many of them mention Andrew Tate, the controversial influencer who has been banned from several platforms for his misogynist views. Turkey accuses US of ‘bullying’ Saudi Arabia over OPEC+ oil cuts The creator cannot stop this train once it is in motion, because they have no control over the algorithm itself and there are limited options for reporting issues, Mr Navarra added. People using TikTok are served content based on a mixture of videos they have previously liked, and on which people like them have watched and commented.