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Across China: Volunteers in China offer "cloud tutoring" for children of frontline medics

While numerous volunteers in China are working in grassroots communities amid the epidemic, students and teachers have also responded by offering online tutoring for t

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China updates tax-cut guidelines to combat COVID-19

China's taxation authority on Tuesday unveiled an updated tax-cut guidelines to better cope with the spread of COVID-19 and support work and production resumption.The guidelines detailed 17 polici

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Putin may run for president in 2024 if approved by Constitutional Court

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the ceremony of presenting credentials at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Feb. 5, 2020. (Xinhua/Bai Xueqi) "In principle, this variant would be possible, but

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Stitch Fix’s sharp decline signals high growth hurdles for tech-enabled startups

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Shares of Stitch Fix, a digitally-enabled “styling service,” are off s

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Markets look a bit better today, because hope springs eternal

It appears that the teaser from President Donald Trump’s press conference last night about the steps that the U.S. government might take to soften the economic blow of a more severe response fro

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Trump wants payroll tax relief to calm virus-spooked markets

00:40 U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday his administration will ask Congress to pass payroll tax relief and other quick measures as a public health and economic maelstrom brought

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Canada confirms first COVID-19 death

Canada confirmed its COVID-19 death in Vancouver of British Columbia province Monday. One of the residents of a care center in north Vancouver's Lynn Valley, whose cas

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Facebook Stories tests cross-posting to its pet, Instagram

Facebook’s latest colonization of Instagram has begun. Facebook is testing the option to cross-post Stories to Instagram, instead of just vice-versa. Hopefully, that means the two apps will fi

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Talkspace threatened to sue a security researcher over bug report

A security researcher said he was forced to take down a blog post describing an apparent bug in Talkspace’s website that gave him a year’s subscription for free, after the company rejecte

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Oil price crash may have severe consequences for global economy

Editor's note:Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American political analyst. The article reflects the author's opinion and not necessarily the views of CGTN.Oil dropped by roughly 30percentonMarch 9

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MH17 families protest with empty chairs opposite Russian Embassy

The families of people killed when a missile shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014 set out 298 white chairs outside the Russian Embassy on Sunday in a silent protest a

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Afghan Parallel inauguration spillover effect wrecks peace prospect

Abdullah Abdullah, the bitter rival of Afghanistan's president-elect Ashraf Ghani, has issued invitations to a parallel swearing-in ceremony due next week, his spokesman said on Saturday."We've se

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Senior Iranian commander killed in Syria's capital

A senior Iranian revolutionary guard member was gunned down in the capital Damascus on Friday, a war monitor reported Saturday. The Iranian commander, identified as Fa

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UN Women chief says gender equality benefits not only women but all

The benefits of gender equality are not just for women and girls, but "for everyone whose lives will be changed by a fairer world," UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has said in h

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Former NBA star Marbury hails China's handling of COVID-19 outbreak

01:49 Former NBA star and current coach of the CBA's Beikong Royal Fighters Stephon Marbury hopes Americans start taking the coronavirus threat a little more seriously. His remarks cam

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Over 3,900 tested positive, 197 die of coronavirus in Italy

A total of 3,916 people were tested positive for the coronavirus in Italy since the epidemic first broke out here 15 days ago, the Civil Protection Department said Friday. The figure did not inc

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Iraq confirms 8 new cases of COVID-19 with further precautionary measures

Iraqi Health Ministry on Friday announced eight new cases of COVID-19, bringing the number of the confirmed cases to 46 in the country, of whom four have died. The gov