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Swallow your pride and drop vaccine racism

Editor's note: Timothy Kerswell is a research fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). He lived in Macao for seven years, working as an assistant profe

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Europe’s cookie consent reckoning is coming

Cookie pop-ups getting you down? Complaints that the web is ‘unusable’ in Europe because of frustrating and confusing ‘data choices’ notifications that get in the way of what y

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Carrie Lam signs amendments to HKSAR electoral laws

Carrie Lam, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), on Saturday signed in accordance with the Basic Law the Improving Electoral System (

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Zero-gravity space fridge could keep astronaut food fresh for years

Regular supply launches keep astronauts aboard the ISS supplied with relatively fresh food, but a flight to Mars won’t get deliveries. If we’re going to visit other planets, we’ll ne

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Climate forecast: 40% chance world will temporarily hit 1.5C threshold in next five years

Scientists warn that temperature rises above 1.5C will lead to more heatwaves, extreme rainstorms, water shortages, and drought.

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Yang Jiechi's trip to Moscow – sign of deepening cooperation

Editor's note: Danil Bochkov is an expert with the Russian International Affairs Council. He graduated cum laude with a master's degree in economics from MGIMO-Universi

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Yang Jiechi's trip to Moscow – sign of deepening cooperation

Editor's note: Danil Bochkov is an expert with the Russian International Affairs Council. He graduated cum laude with a master's degree in economics from MGIMO-Universi

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Yang Jiechi's trip to Moscow – sign of deepening cooperation

Editor's note: Danil Bochkov is an expert with the Russian International Affairs Council. He graduated cum laude with a master's degree in economics from MGIMO-Universi

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Extra Crunch roundup: Lordstown Motors’ woes, how co-CEOs work, Brian Chesky interview

Lordstown Motors released its Q1 earnings yesterday, and the electric vehicle manufacturer is facing a few challenges.Expenses were higher than expected, it plans to slash production by about 50%, and

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JD.com, Meituan and Neolix to test autonomous deliveries on Beijing public roads

People in a Beijing suburb will begin to see autonomous delivery mini-vans across their neighborhood, moving cautiously alongside human delivery riders belting down the streets.Beijing has greenlighte

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Interactio, a remote interpretation platform, grabs $30M after seeing 12x growth during COVID-19

Interactio, a remote interpretation platform whose customers include massive institutions like the United Nations, European Commission and Parliament along with corporates like BMW, JP Morgan and Micr

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Lordstown Motors slashes production forecast for its electric pickup

Lordstown Motors’ cash-rich SPAC dreams have turned out to be nothin’ more than wishes. The automaker reported Monday a disappointing first-quarter earnings that was a pile-up of red-ink-s

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Israel May Have Dealt Hamas a Heavy Blow, but Islamist Militants Destined to Recover

The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the Islamic group that controls the Gaza Strip, still holds on Monday.Hamas stopped its indiscriminate rocket fire into Israeli

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Malware caught using a macOS zero-day to secretly take screenshots

Almost exactly a month ago, researchers revealed a notorious malware family was exploiting a never-before-seen vulnerability that let it bypass macOS security defenses and run unimpeded. Now, some of

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Ethiopia is making the wrong choices in its relations with the U.S.

The Jimma Industrial park in Jima, Ethiopia, December 8, 2018. /Xinhua Editor's note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford u

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Emitwise raises an extra $3.2M from ArcTern Ventures for its greenhouse gas emissions platform

Emitwise, a startup that claims its AI platform can measure greenhouse gas emissions from companies and their supply chains, has added to its seed funding round by $3.2 million, bringing its total see

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Germany's EU 'climate club' proposal has vast potential

Editor's note: Hannan Hussain is a foreign affairs commentator and author. He is a Fulbright recipient at the University of Maryland, the U.S., and a former assistant r