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1 in 3 adolescent girls from poorest households illiterate: UNICEF report

Nearly one in three adolescent girls from the poorest households around the world has never been to school, according to a paper released Monday by United Nations Chil

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Australian PM rules out net-zero emissions target if jobs put at risk

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has ruled out pursuing a net-zero emissions target if doing so would jeopardize jobs. Morrison on Monday announced that the government will undertake a revie

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Moscow Warns Iran Against Reckless Steps as Tehran Threatens to Quit Non-Proliferation Treaty

Earlier, Iranian Foreign Ministry's spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi said that Tehran continues to adhere to the 2015 nuclear deal, adding that the European powers' claim

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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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All-women astronaut crew changes space station batteries

Accomplished astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch perform what was only the third ever all-woman spacewalk.

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Russian scientists to have SNAP test for novel coronavirus within month: media

Russian scientists will have a SNAP test within a month to quickly detect the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that caused cases of pneumonia, Russian newspaper Izvestia reported Monday. "We started wor

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China's industrial economy to expand steadily in 2020

China's industrial economy will continue to expand steadily in 2020 despite downward pressures, a senior official said Monday. China boasts a complete industrial syste

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Interview: U.S. business leader says phase-one trade deal beneficial for both countries

The China-U.S. phase-one economic and trade agreement will not only benefit the U.S. business community but also support China's economic growth in the next decade, U.S.-China Business Council Presi

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Berlin Conference participants agree to respect arms embargo in Libya

Participants in the Germany-called Libya Conference on Sunday have agreed to respect the arms embargo and truce in the war-torn north African country, pledging to esta

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China's GDP per capita over $10,000 mark, huge potential remains

Editor's note: Chen Jiahe is chief investment officer at Novem Arcae Technologies. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.China's National Bureau of Stat

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China prosecutes over 1.81 mln criminal suspects in 2019

Procuratorates across China approved the arrests of over 1.08 million criminal suspects and prosecuted more than 1.81 million in 2019, according to a meeting of chief

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What next after the phase one trade deal?

China and the U.S. signed a phase one trade deal on January 15 in Washington, DC. The deal is much more than just increasing China's imports of U.S. goods and services by 200 billion U.S. dollars

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SpaceX launches, destroys rocket in astronaut escape test

SpaceX completed the last big test of its crew capsule before launching astronauts in the next few months, mimicking an emergency escape shortly after liftoff last Sunday.No one was aboard for the

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Boris Johnson Will Reportedly Threaten to Sack Ministers Who Sparkle on TV for PR

The reported move is believed to be part of a plan that adviser Dominic Cummings approved to promote hard work in the government and a fast track to make good on Whiteh

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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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Watch SpaceX launch its Crew Dragon astronaut spacecraft for a key safety test

SpaceX is looking to launch its Crew Dragon spacecraft using a Falcon 9 rocket today, in a crucial test of the human-rated spacecraft’s In-Flight Abort (IFA) system. This safety feature will sep

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China's Yunnan to reward major foreign investors

Southwest China's Yunnan Province will encourage foreign companies to invest in the province, offering a maximum reward of 50 million yuan (7.3 million U.S. dollars). The reward method said the prov