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The UK PM: 'it's too early' for decision over summer holiday plan

The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that: "It is too early to say if people will be allowed to take summer holidays abroad or in the UK."/Getty Images The British Prime

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Uganda names 10,000m record holder Cheptegei as tourism ambassador

FILE PHOTO: Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda celebrates victory in the Men's 5000 metres during the Herculis EBS Monaco 2020 Diamond League meeting at Stade Louis II in Monaco, Monaco. /Getty Images

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What is behind Russia's ambition to launch 'Sputnik V' globally?

Russia's "Sputnik V" vaccine. /Xinhua Editor's note:Danil Bochkov is an expert at the Russian International Affairs Council.He graduated cum laude with a master of economics from MGIMO-Univers

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Chinese exporters struggle with shortage of shipping containers

02:42 Chinese exporters suffer from extreme shortage and rising costs of shipping containers, which strand in America and Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.East China's Yiwu, also kn

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Wang Meng: China's first female champion at Winter Paralympics

Wang Meng (R) during training with her teammate. /CFP Chinese athlete Wang Meng won the first-ever gold medal in Paralympics for China during the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games in South Korea,

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China-U.S. competition enters a stage of strategic stalemate

Crisis prevention is the key to offense and defense for both China and the U.S./ CFP Editor's note: Ju Jiandong is Chang Jiang Scholar of the Chinese Ministry of Education, Unigroup chair prof

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Venmo to gain crypto, budgeting, bill pay, and Honey integrations this year

The Venmo mobile payments app is going to look very different in 2021 as it inches closer to neobank territory with expansions into budgeting, saving, bill pay and cryptocurrency, said Venmo parent co

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Global media professionals call for strengthening in cooperation

Media professionals across the world on Wednesday called for more cooperation to safeguard the objective and fair order of news dissemination and to provide factual and reliable news content to the w

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US billionaire paying for first all-civilian mission to space - which three people will he take?

Jared Isaacman, who will be the spacecraft commander, aims to use the multi-day trip to raise $200m (£146m) for a hospital.

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Daily Crunch: Robinhood raises $1B

Robinhood caps a wild week for new funding, Coinbase is going public and Johnson Johnson reveals new vaccine trial data. This is your Daily Crunch for January 29, 2021.The big story: Robinhood raises

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You can now give Facebook’s Oversight Board feedback on the decision to suspend Trump

Facebook’s “Supreme Court” is now accepting comments on one of its earliest and likely most consequential cases. The Facebook Oversight Board announced Friday that it would begin acc

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GGV Capital just announced $2.52 billion across new funds for ‘entrepreneurs around the world’

GGV Capital, the now 20-year-old venture firm that has long invested primarily in the U.S. and China, just closed on a whopping $2.52 billion in fresh capital commitments across four new funds, it ann

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Xi Jinping sends message of sympathy to Surinamese president

Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a message to Surinamese President Chandrikapersad Santokhi to extend sympathy over his positive COVID-19 test and wish him a speed

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Playvox scores $25M Series A and acquires Australian startup Agyle Time

It’s not every day you see a Latin American startup funded by a U.S. venture capital firm based in the midwest. Playvox, a Colombian startup that wants to bring a positive twist to customer serv

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Calling Swedish VCs: Be featured in The Great TechCrunch Survey of European VC

TechCrunch is embarking on a major project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe, and their cities.Our a href=”https://forms.gle/k4Ji2Ch7zdrn7o2p6”>survey of VCs in Stockholm, and Sw

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The far right’s favorite registrar is building ‘censorship-resistant’ servers

“The digital divide is now a matter of life and death for people who are unable to access essential healthcare information,” said UN Secretary General António Guterres in June 2020. Almost half the gl

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Calling Athens VCs: Be featured in The Great TechCrunch Survey of European VC

TechCrunch is embarking on a major project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe, and their cities.Our a href=”https://forms.gle/k4Ji2Ch7zdrn7o2p6”>survey of VCs in Athens, Greece wi