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China's "group buying" bid opening held in Shanghai

Thirty-two types of medicine won the bid for centralized procurement on Friday in Shanghai, making them available to patients at public hospitals across the country at

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EU trade commissioner dismisses U.S. threat on intelligence sharing regarding Huawei

The European Commissioner for Trade, Phil Hogan, has said that the European Union will treat Chinese tech company Huawei fairly, adding that the related threat from the United States on intelligence

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UN lays wreath to mark 10th anniversary of Haiti earthquake

Rescue workers carried out search and rescue work at the headquarters building of the United Nations peacekeeping mission after Haiti earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010. (Photo courtesy of UN News) The Un

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APD | India to invite Pakistan Prime Minister to New Delhi

By APD writer Rishika ChauhanIndian government, last week decided that they would be inviting Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisa

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Ukraine president gives PM second chance after tape leak

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday allowed Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk to keep his job after the leak of an embarrassing audio recording prompted Ho

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Libya's Gen. Haftar in Greece ahead of Berlin talks

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias welcomes Libya's rogue general and warlord Khalifa Haftar outside a hotel in Athens, Greece, January 16, 2020. (Reuters) Libyan National Army Gen. Khalifa

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The Slovenian paramilitaries on patrol to stop migrants

02:37 Andrej Šiško, the leader of Slovenian paramilitary organization "Styrian Guard" was arrested on 4 January, when he tried to get close to Slovenian President Borut Pahor in the to

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U.S. to begin screening travelers from central China for deadly virus

U.S. health officials will begin immediately screening airline passengers arriving from central China for a new and deadly type of pneumonia-like illness.The virus has been linked to the deaths of tw

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Mexico says it will block migrant caravan en route to US from Honduras

Mexico said it will block hundreds of mostly Honduran migrants hoping to reach the United States as officials there continue to crack down on the number of immigrants a

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Russia’s foreign minister slams ‘aggressive’ US policies

Russia’s foreign policy chief on Friday blamed what he described as “aggressive” U.S. policies for growing global tensions, noting Washington’s reluctance to extend a k

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US service members injured in Iran bombing despite prior claims; 11 airlifted for treatment

U.S. officials confirmed late Thursday that some American troops were injured in Iran's missile attacks on American service members in Iraq despite prior claims no one

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Paris Louvre museum closed amid strikes over pension plans

Paris’ Louvre museum was closed Friday as dozens of protesters blocked the entrance to denounce the French government’s plans to overhaul the pension system.The Leonard

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S.Korea says policy on DPRK belongs to matter of sovereignty

SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's unification ministry said on Friday that the country's policy on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) belonged to a matter of sovereignty. Lee San

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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon astronaut spacecraft has a key launch Saturday – here’s what’s going down

SpaceX and NASA are getting ready for a key test of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon commercial crew spacecraft on Saturday, and this should be the last major milestone that SpaceX has to pass in terms of

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As Alphabet crests the $1T mark, SaaS stocks reach all-time highs of their own

Continuing our irregular surveys of the public markets, two things happened this week that are worth our time. First, a third domestic technology company — Alphabet — passed the $1 trillio

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Cruise calls for a new way to determine commercial readiness of self-driving cars

Cruise co-founder and CTO Kyle Vogt said Friday that disengagement reports released annually by California regulators are not a proxy for the commercial readiness or safety of self-driving cars.Vogt,

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Chinese, Brunei's leaders hail opening of China-Brunei Year of Tourism 2020

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brunei's Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah on Friday exchanged congratulatory letters over the opening of the China-Brunei Year of Tourism