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Instagram is building a product equity team and hiring a director of diversity and inclusion

Instagram announced some changes it’s making that are geared toward advancing equity within its workplace. The changes come after Instagram in June spoke about elevating, rather than suppressin

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Widespread COVID-19 vaccinations not expected until mid-2021, WHO says

The World Health Organization does not expect widespread vaccinations against COVID-19 until the middle of next year, a spokeswoman said on Friday, stressing the import

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Debunking the disinformation in Pompeo's anti-Chinese diatribe

Editor's note:Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American political analyst. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spe

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Feature: Heartwarming hand-painted certificates inspire COVID-19 patients in Xinjiang

Surrounded by cheering medical staff, four patients who have recovered from the novel coronavirus left a hospital in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

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Singaporean FM urges Int'l cooperation against COVID-19, opposes blame game

Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan has cautioned against resorting to blame game amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and called for international cooperation to

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Indian PM lays foundation of temple at razed mosque site

Despite the coronavirus restricting a large crowd, Hindus rejoiced Wednesday as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke ground on a long-awaited temple of their most

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Feature: Shutterbugs spotlight ancient Great Wall in northwest China

It all happened in a series of clicks. Holding his breath, Li Peng squatted down and pressed the shutter button successively as he focused his camera on a beacon tower at the ancient Great Wall, stan

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India’s top fitness and wellbeing startup Cure.fit expands to the U.S.

Indian fitness and wellbeing startup Cure.fit, which has established a market leading position in the country in four years of its existence, is ready to stretch to a new geography.The Bangalore-headq

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Feature: Medical "vendors" tout life-saving skills at night market

At 7:30 p.m., as lines of residents wait to be served snacks at food stalls at a night market on a bustling square in the city of Weifang, east China's Shandong Provin

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How testing sewage could help the UK predict COVID-19 outbreaks

02:30 As new waves of COVID-19 infections break out across Europe, governments are looking for ways to find where the virus may strike next. And one of the methods that has proved most

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Marietje Schaake is ‘very concerned about the future of democracy’

In the ten years she spent as a member of the European Parliament, Marietje Schaake became one of Brussels’ leading voices on technology policy issues.A Dutch politician from the centrist-liberal Demo

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Across China: Silver-haired ex-fishermen take to Yangtze River conservation

Standing on the bow of the boat, Xiao Lyuying, an ex-fisherman on the Yangtze River, skillfully scooped up a plastic bottle with a fishing net while another boatman st

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12 top cybersecurity VCs discuss investing, valuations and no-go zones

Cybersecurity is by far the most important area in any industry. Without it, we would be in hacker open season.But cybersecurity is difficult to get right. One wrong move and you can leave the door op

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Wuhan spends 900 mln yuan on citywide COVID-19 tests

Wuhan forked out 900 million yuan (126 mln U.S. dollars) on a citywide testing drive to screen novel coronavirus infections, executive deputy mayor Hu Yabo told a pres

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The $2 trillion plan that could change the EU forever

04:10 The huge financial package proposed to blunt the economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus could change the European Union forever.If approved, it would allow the European

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LeverEdge wants to get you and your friends a volume discount on student loans

Student loans are both a trillion-dollar debt category and also one of the most popular mini-verticals out there in fintech startup investing right now. There are dozens if not hundreds of companies i

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Notion drops usage limit on its personal free tier

Notion, a popular note-taking and wiki-creation app, revamped their personal pricing plans today stripping many of the user limitations from the free tier, bringing it on par with the functionality of