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Putin signs decree to increase military personnel to 1.15m

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree according to which the number of Russian military personnel will be increased by 137,000 to 1.15 million, RIA reported

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Crowds party in South London amid loosened COVID-19 restrictions

Click arrows to view gallery Massive crowds were seen in South London Saturday, as revelers gathered for the GALA festival, an independent music festival taking place

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Mexicans vote on Sunday in largest elections ever

02:02 Mexicans head to the pollsthis weekend, ​for elections historic in size with thousands of positions on the line. But they're historic, too, for the violence that's accompanied the

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Bonhams Hong Kong presents 3.5-m calligraphy couplet by Chang Dai-chien

Bonhams Hong Kong presents a calligraphy couplet in Running Script by Chinese artist Chang Dai-chien (Zhang Daqian), the largest size in the market, May 25, 2021. (China News Service/Li Zhihua)

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Asian Development Bank triples COVID-19 response package to 20 bln USD.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Monday it has tripled the size of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic to 20 billion U.S. dollars and approved measures to streamline its operations for quic

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Plus-size dancers shake up Rio's samba parades

02:10 Rio de Janeiro's Carnival parades have traditionally featured dozens of beautiful and physically fit samba dancers. Now, plus-size women are changing the game. CGTN's Lucrecia Fr

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China's beer industry sees stable growth in 2019

China's beer industry reported steady expansion in 2019 with leading output and growth rate in the alcohol-making sector, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed. The annual output

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Big and brilliant: complex whale behavior tied to brain size

Cetaceans–whalesanddolphins–areamongthebrainiestofbeings.Intermsofsheerbrainsize,thespermwhaleistopsontheEarth,withabrainsixtimeslargerthanthatofahumanbeing.And

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Whales are the largest animals on Earth. Now we know why they got so big

YouhavetheprivilegeofsharingtheplanetwiththelargestanimalthateverlivedonEarth.Thegreatbluewhale,whichcanbefoundineveryoceanaroundtheglobe,isbiggerthananydinosau

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Italy's productivity hampered by overwhelming presence of micro firms: study

​Italy's productivity gap with other European partners stems from a large predominance of micro-sized firms and not from an inappropriate specialisation of its economy, a recent study said.

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One in five Sun-like stars may have Earth-sized planets: study

One in five Sun-like stars may have planets about the size of Earth and a surface temperature conducive to life, U.S. researchers said Monday.