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Cutting back on what you eat can cut back your carbon footprint

03:00 The food people eat and the places they choose to buy them can have a major impact on the environment and climate change, says Sweta Chakraborty, president of U.S. operations for

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10 killed after two roadside bomb attacks in Kabul

The death toll of two bomb attacks in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan Tuesday evening has risen to 10, with more than 12 injured.The two bomb attacks, both targeting buses, happened in Police District

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Impact of COVID-19 on Brazil’s demographics

02:25 The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant changes to Brazil’s population dynamics.For the first time, there were more deaths than births in the country’s richest southeastern

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Captain fully responsible for grounding of Ever Given in Suez Canal

The captain of the Ever Given was fully responsible for the grounding of the huge cargo vessel that blocked the canal for six days in March, according to Egypt's Suez Canal Authority (SCA) on Sunday.

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China replaces Germany as UK's biggest import market: ONS

China has replaced Germany as the UK's biggest single import market for the first time on record, partly fueled by demand for Chinese textiles used for face masks and PPE, according to the Office for

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Power station fire leaves thousands without electricity in Queensland

An explosion and fire at the Callide Power Station in central Queensland, Australia, left thousands of households and businesses without power on Tuesday, local media ABC News reported.Electricity ha

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Companies plot out office space use in post-pandemic future

02:47 The pandemic caused a profound shift in how we work. For many of us, the pivot to remote work was a success and the idea of going back into the office – full time at least – seems

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Netanyahu says 'will take time' before Gaza fighting ends

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that an end to seven days of hostilities with Gaza militants was not imminent, despite diplomatic moves to restore calm."Our campaign against

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Shooting in New York wounds 5

Police were investigating a shooting in the Bronx neighborhood of New York Saturday night that injured at least five people, U.S. media outlet NBC reported.The shooting happened at around 9 p.m. loca

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Chinese President Xi congratulates team on Mars probe landing

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday congratulated the mission team on the landing of China's probe Tianwen-1 on Mars.The lander carrying China's first Mars rover t

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One woman's experience with rare J&J vaccine blood clot

02:28 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now says ​a total of 28 people ​are known to have developed blood clots after receiving Johnson Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine. Thr

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M6.0 earthquake hits off the coast of Fukushima

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 struck off the coast of Japan's Fukushima Prefecture at 8:58 a.m. local time on Friday, according to Japan Meteorological Agency.The quake hit at a depth of 40 k

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Cyber hack causes chaos on important U.S. pipeline

02:49 The U.S. says a 'Russia-based' group - DarkSide - is behind the hack of the Colonial pipeline. But at the same time, the White House says federal officials can only do so much whe

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A classic Shakespearean play with a Tibetan twist

A new production of Hamlet, which features 22 students from a Tibetan class at the Shanghai Theater Academy, takes to the stage of Shangxi Theater in Shanghai. [Photo by Gao Erqiang/chinadaily.co

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Online orders from China drives Thai fruits exports

02:15 Thanks to a surge in online orders from China, fruits have overtaken rice for the first time to become Thailand's top farm exports.Thailand's Ministry of Commerce said fruit expor

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4 injured in chemical plant blast in Japan

An explosion took place at a chemical factory in northeastern Japan on Tuesday, injuring four people, local media reported.According to local authorities, no toxic gases have been detected.The blast

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Section of Colonial Pipeline resumes operations temporarily: company

U.S. main fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline said on Monday that a section of the system from North Carolina to Maryland has been reopened at least temporarily after all pipeline operations wer