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'Tongues Smeared with Threatening': Iran Rebukes Trump's Farsi Tweet Supporting Protests in Tehran

US President Donald Trump has tweeted that he and his administration were monitoring Saturday's protests in Iran and expressed support for participants in rallies spark

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Feature: Ugandans, Chinese enjoy temple fair in Kampala ahead of Spring Festival

Thousands of people including Ugandans, Chinese community members and foreigners living in the east African country on Sunday thronged Kololo ceremonial grounds in Kampala to enjoy the first ever Ch

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Startups Weekly: In a crowded field of unicorns, ClassPass becomes another unicorn

I hope you’ve all had a good week. Normally I’m behind the scenes (where I’m most comfortable), but I’ll be managing the Startups Weekly newsletter until I assign it to someone else. More

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Taking a broader look at the debate on 'human rights' in Xinjiang

Editor's Note: This article is part two of a series titled "See the difference between the two narratives on Xinjiang," which explores the differences between China and the West on China's Xinjian

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Iran agrees de-escalation 'only solution' to solve crisis with US

Iran signalled Sunday it favours a de-escalation after 10 days of heightened tensions with the United States during which both sides fired missiles and Tehran accidenta

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Original Content podcast: Netflix’s ‘6 Underground’ is very fun and very dumb

Netflix’s “6 Underground” feels like a movie that belongs on the big screen.Sure, it isn’t part of a giant franchise (yet), and it doesn’t feature any well-known superhe

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CES was a snoozefest

At a certain point during the last week, I found myself wandering the halls of CES, looking for the gadget that would fix all of my problems. Maybe it’s the modern condition, or just a sign of having

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China Roundup: WeChat’s new focus on monetization

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. At the beginning of each year,

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R.I.P. Goofy Times

A strange new sensation has settled across the tech industry, one so foreign, so alien, it’s almost hard to recognize. A sense that some great expectations are being radically revised downwards;

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Week in Review: The old Vision Fund heave-ho

Hey everyone, welcome back to Week in Review where I dive deep into a bit of news from the week or just share some thoughts and go over some of the more interesting stories of the week.If you’re

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Queen, Prince Harry, senior royals set for crisis meeting

Prince Harry the Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle the Duchess of Sussex attend the Your Commonwealth Youth Challenge reception at Marlborough House, May 7, 2018. /AP Photo Queen Elizabeth II w

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Rallies held in Greece against U.S. "imperialist military operations"

Thousands of protesters marched in the centre of Athens and Thessaloniki in northern Greece on Saturday, chanting slogans against the U.S. airstrike in Iraq which kill

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Privacy gets attention at CES tech show

Once a hidden and under-the-radar topic, privacy got more attention at the CES gadget show in Las Vegas this week. Startups now volunteer information about how they're securing your data and prote

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Olympic champion Zhang Hong: Sports spirit shapes my life

File photo:China's IOC member Zhang Hong (Xinhua/Wang Jingqiang) China's International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Zhang Hong explained on Saturday how sports had shaped her life. "The sports sp

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Andrew Yang won the internet, but can he win a 2020 caucus?

On a recent swing through Iowa, Andrew Yang was moving through his stump speech, a string of stories and statistics that can sound like an economics seminar. There was

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Trump goes out of his way to take a bow, again

It was wonderful news: Researchers reported this past week the largest-ever one-year decline in the U.S. cancer death rate during 2017. And President Donald Trump didn’

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After delays, noise-adapting NuraLoop earbuds are coming soon and sound great

A few buffet mistakes aside, NuraLoop were the biggest disappointment of my 2019 CES. When the headphones showed up at the show as dummy units, it hurt my heart a little. The original Nuraphones made