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APD | Over 150 Sri Lankans to be evacuated from China

By APD writer EaswaranOver 150 Sri Lankans are to be evacuated from China as the coronavirus continued to spread with China on Sunday morning announcing 15 more deaths

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APD | Taal Volcano’s status lowered effective Sunday morning

By APD writer Melo M. AcuñaMANILA, Jan. 26 (APD) – The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology has lowered Taal Volcano’s alert level from hazardous eruption

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Int'l experts impressed by China's speed in battling coronavirus

International media and experts spoke highly of China's speed and openness in combatting the novel coronavirus named 2019-nCoV, which has rapidly spread across China an

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Philippines' Taal Volcano alert level lowered to alert level 3

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology downgraded on Sunday the alert level for Taal Volcano from alert level four to alert level three in response to

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Canada confirms first "presumptive" case of coronavirus

Canada confirmed its first "presumptive" case of the deadly coronavirus in Toronto Saturday evening. A man in his 50s, who had traveled to the Chinese city of Wuhan, was found at Toronto's Sunnybrook

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Outrage at whites-only image as Uganda climate activist cropped from photo

Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate has called out racism in media after she was cropped out of a photo featuring prominent climate activists including Greta Thunbe

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This Week in Apps: Apple antitrust issues come to Congress, subscription apps boom, Tencent takes on TikTok

Welcome back to ThisWeek in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all.The app industry is as hot as ever with

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China's Wuhan to build another SARS treatment-model hospital

Wuhan, the center of a coronavirus outbreak in central China, will build a second SARS treatment-model makeshift hospital and put it into use in half a month, local au

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Science Saturday 20200125

02:17 In this week's Science Saturday, we look at science news ranging from robots to the human brain.XenobotScientists have recently created the world's first self-healing robots. Nam

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APD | The Philippines can unilaterally terminate the Visiting Forces Agreement

By APD writer Melo M. AcuñaMANILA – Defense Secretary Delfin N. Lorenzana today said the Philippines may terminate the Visiting Forces Agreement which the Senate of the

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In The Spotlight: Esmail Qaani, new face of Iran's elite Quds Force

"They (U.S.) hit him (Soleimani) in a cowardly way, but with God's grace and through endeavors of freedom-seekers around the world who want vengeance over his blood, we will hit his enemy in a man

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Serbia welcomes Chinese Year of Rat with lights exhibition, fireworks

The countdown to Chinese New Year was staged at the Kalemegdan fortress in Belgrade where citizens gathered to enjoy the second Chinese Festival of Lights together on Friday with Serbian government

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Mosquito-killing fungus wins prestigious award

A genetically engineered fungus is capable of killing mosquitoes using a spider venom that is harmless to humans.

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Facebook’s dodgy defaults face more scrutiny in Europe

Italy’s Competition and Markets Authority has launched proceedings against Facebook for failing to fully inform users about the commercial uses it makes of their data.At the same time a German

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China's athletics body issues coronavirus prevention guidelines

00:46 The Chinese Athletics Association has announced new prevention and control methods to deal with the coronavirus at marathons. Organizing committees should establish a work team,

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China Focus: Wuhan to follow Beijing's SARS treatment model in new coronavirus control

The central China metropolitan of Wuhan will follow Beijing's SARS treatment model to build a special hospital for admitting patients infected in the outbreak of pneum

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China releases 2019 novel coronavirus database

The National Genomics Data Center (NGDC) has released the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) database, according to Beijing Institute of Genomics from the Chinese Acad