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APD | Department of Health confirms third 2019-nCOV ARD case in the country

By APD writer Melo M. AcuñaMANILA – The Department of Health confirmed that a sample from a 60-year-old female Chinese patient under investigation (PUI) tested positive

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How has Singapore responded to coronavirus outbreak?

Editor's note: Ji Xianbai, PhD, is a research fellow with the International Political Economy Program of S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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UN chief sees Turkey-Syria clashes as threat to int'l peace, security

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is "very much alarmed" by reports of clashes between Turkish and Syrian troops in northwest Syria seen as a "threat t

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Josh Kopelman on how to start and run an early-stage fund in a hypercompetitive market

Last week at the Upfront Summit in Pasadena, there was no shortage of glitz, from the venue (the Rose Bowl) to the catering (Wolfgang Puck) to the guest list (Ice Cube, Paris Hilton and John Legend, t

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French minister's 'impersonators' on trial for fraud

Gilbert Chikli listens to a translator in Kiev in 2017 during his trial for tricking dozens of French banks and businesses into handing over millions of euros (Credit: Sergei Supinsky/ AFP) A

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Last chance: Only a few tickets left to Winter Party at Galvanize This Friday

This is it, startup fans. It’s your very last chance to scoop up the few remaining tickets to our 3rd Annual Winter Party at Galvanize — the best Silicon startup soiree bar none. If you want to join t

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Spain's Health Ministry Confirms First Case of Coronavirus

Spain's Health Ministry announced late on Friday that the western European country had confirmed its first case of the Wuhan coronavirus.In a press statement Friday, th

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UN chief appoints new deputy head of mission in Lebanon

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed Jack Christofides of South Africa as the deputy head of Mission for the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), his press

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U.S. Senate debate calling witnesses at Trump impeachment trial

A bust of former President Richard Nixon, looks over the hallway outside the Senate chamber as Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., center background, talks to reporters as he and other Republican Senators

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McConnell’s Democratic rival McGrath endorses Biden for 2020

Amy McGrath, a former Marine combat aviator who has raised more than $16 million in her effort to challenge Sen. Mitch McConnell in November’s election, said Friday tha

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Indian airline SpiceJet confirms breach of 1.2 million passenger details

SpiceJet, one of India’s largest privately owned airlines, has confirmed a data breach involving the details of over a million of its passengers.The security researcher, who described their actions as

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Highest resolution pictures show sun's surface in detail

The world's largest solar telescope has taken pictures of the sun's surface in new levels of detail.

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RealityEngines launches its autonomous AI service

RealityEngines.AI, an AI and machine learning startup founded by a number of former Google executives and engineers, is coming out of stealth today and announcing its first set of products.When the co

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Nutanix execs discuss how they built their 2016 IPO roadshow deck

Bringing a startup from idea to IPO isn’t an easy task, but if you can build something successful, one major milestone is to go public. Before your Nasdaq debut, however, there’s a major s

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Pecan.ai launches with $11M Series A to automate machine learning

Pecan.ai, a startup that wants to help business analysts build machine learning models in an automated fashion, emerged from stealth today and announced an $11 million Series A.The round was led by De

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5 cases of new coronavirus confirmed in U.S.

Five people in the United States, all of whom visited the central Chinese city of Wuhan, have been infected with the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), said an official of the U.S. Centers for Disease C

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Beijing confirms use of anti-HIV drugs to treat novel coronavirus

Anti-HIV drugs have been used to treat the patients infected with the novel coronavirus in Beijing, the city's municipal health commission confirmed in a statement on i