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How is China getting ready to host the Beijing 2022 Winter Games?

29:16 It’s just one year until the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games. And sports on the ice and snow are a growing lifestyle choice for Chinese people during wintertime. What’s making

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Live: Traffic during the post-Spring Festival travel rush

Chunyun is the annual Spring Festival travel rush when millions of Chinese people typically head home to celebrate the Chinese New Year with their families. But because

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Rare snow blankets Jerusalem as wintry weather hits Israel

A rare snow fell on northern Israel and blanketed the city of Jerusalem, February 17, 2021. /VCG This was the first snow the city has seen since 2019. /VCG The snowfall left seve

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Trump Plaza Casino demolished

01:00 The building that was once the popular Trump Plaza Casino was demolished in Atlantic City Wednesday morning. Former President Trump opened it in 1984 but it began to decline afte

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Myanmar's Suu Kyi to remain detained until Feb. 17: lawyer

Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi will remain detained until February 17, according to Reuters citing her lawyer. Suu Kyi was originally expected to be released Monday.

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Recently retrieved stone Buddha head goes on display in Beijing

A stone Buddha head that was stolen from China almost a century ago and recently retrieved has appeared at an exhibition at Beijing Luxun Museum starting from Friday, which is the Chinese Lunar New Ye

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Camellias blooming for Chinese New Year in central China

01:10 Camellias are blooming on about 10 hectares of land in the national forest park of Huaihua City, central China's Hunan Province. During the Spring Festival holida

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Germany plans to extend lockdown until March 14: draft document

Germany plans to extend restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus until March 14, a draft agreement for talks between Chancellor Angela Merkel and leaders of t

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Parts of Nigeria's Osun State placed under 24-hour curfew

VCG Parts of Nigeria's southwestern Osun State have been placed under a 24-hour curfew indefinitely in efforts to contain raging violence in the areas.Land clashes broke out in Irepodun and Or

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Over 800,000 medics in Indonesia receive Chinese COVID-19 vaccines

A total of 811,000 health workers in Indonesia have received the first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech as of Monday, Health Minister Budi G

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COVID19: Uganda indefinitely suspends pre-primary school amid spike

Janet Museveni, minister of education and sports in a statement said learners in pre-primary school cannot strictly adhere to COVID-19 prevention measures. /VCG Uganda has indefinitely suspend

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One-year countdown of 2022 Winter Olympic Games begins

00:47 February 4 marks one year until the 2022 Winter Olympic Games begins. Beijing is stepping up its preparations.

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UK asks EU for Brexit grace period extension to 2023, BBC reports

Britain has asked for an extension until 2023 of a grace period on checks that would be conducted on trade moving between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Ki

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Chinese chipmaker SMIC removed from U.S. OTCQX Market

China's largest chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) was removed from the OTCQX, a financial market for over-the-counter securities in

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India’s opposition shuns Parliament, backs farmers’ demands

Major Indian opposition parties boycotted the opening day of Parliament’s budget session on Friday in solidarity with protesting farmers engaged in a 2-month standoff o

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Canada airlines agree to cancel all flights to warm destinations

A plane prepares to land at Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Canada, on Aug. 3, 2020. /Xinhua Canada's major airlines have agreed to suspend all flights to Mexico and the Caribbean un

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Portugal suspends flights from Brazil until mid-February over COVID-19

FILE PHOTO: A TAP Air Portugal Airbus 340-300 seen on the runway at Lisbon Humberto Delgado airport. /VCG Image Portugal will suspend all flights to and from Brazil until the middle of Februar