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Coronavirus outbreak: Chinese provinces activate highest alert

03:15 Saturday is the first day of the Chinese New Year. But on what's usually a day filled with fun activities and events around the country, many city authorities are asking resident

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Iraqi security forces raid Baghdad's main protest camp, shoot at demonstrators

Iraqi security forces raided Baghdad’s main protest site at Tahrir Square on Saturday, firing live rounds and tear gas at anti-government demonstrators who have camped

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Indian government to end five-month Internet blackout in Kashmir

Internet services will be partly restored in Indian-controlled Kashmir from Saturday, ending a five-and-a half-month government-imposed blackout in the troubled region, though social media w

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An adult sexting site exposed thousands of models’ passports and driver’s licenses

A popular sexting website has exposed thousands of photo IDs belonging to models and sex workers who earn commissions from the site.SextPanther, an Arizona-based adult site, stored more than 11,000 id

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Trump to disclose Middle East peace plan by Tuesday

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would unveil the long-awaited Middle East peace plan before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washin

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Five being tested for coronavirus in Scotland

Five people in Scotland are being tested amid fears of the spreading coronavirus, a Scottish government spokesperson has confirmed."Following travel to Wuhan, China, two people confirmed as diagnosed

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Sleep: The best medicine

In China, a popular saying has it: "Food is a better cure than medicine, while sleep is best of all."Other countries have similar maxims. "Sleep is the best medicine," is something worried English

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Samatta becomes first Tanzanian to sign for PL club

Tanzanian international Mbwana Samatta poses for a photo holding an Aston Villa jersey after completing a move to the English Premier League club for a reported £10 million fee on a four-and-a-ha

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20 Chinese tourists injured in bus crash in New Zealand

A bus crash left 20 Chinese tourists injured, among whom two were under serious conditions, on a scenic road between Glenorchy and Queenstown in New Zealand on Tuesday. The Chinese embassy in New Zea

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Fable Studio founder Edward Saatchi on designing virtual beings

In films, TV shows and books — and even in video games where characters are designed to respond to user behavior — we don’t perceive characters as beings with whom we can establish two-way relationshi

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Shadows’ Dylan Flinn and Kombo’s Kevin Gould on the business of ‘virtual influencers’

In films, TV shows and books — and even in video games where characters are designed to respond to user behavior — we don’t perceive characters as beings with whom we can establish two-way relationshi

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China's Wuhan reports 17 new pneumonia cases

WUHAN, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Central Chinese city of Wuhan reported 17 new coronavirus-related pneumonia cases Friday, local health authorities said Sunday. Among the in

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Compound’s Mike Dempsey on virtual influencers and AI characters

In films, TV shows and books — and even in video games where characters are designed to respond to user behavior — we don’t perceive characters as beings with whom we can establish two-way relat

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Canada says black boxes from Iran crash should be sent to France

The crate containing purportedly the two black boxes recovered from the crashed Ukrainian airliner, Boeing 737-800, is seen in this still image taken from a video, in Tehran, January 10, 2020. /R

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U.S. to begin screening travelers from central China for deadly virus

U.S. health officials will begin immediately screening airline passengers arriving from central China for a new and deadly type of pneumonia-like illness.The virus has been linked to the deaths of tw

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U.S. Chief Justice, senators sworn in for Trump impeachment trial

U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts was sworn in on Thursday afternoon on the Senate floor for the soon-to-begin impeachment trial, making Donald Trump only the third president in U.S. history to face s

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'When' is Pelosi's strategy against Trump

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