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'A joke' - UN representative slams Libya arms embargo

Libya has been riven with conflict since the overthrowing of former dictator Muammar Gaddafi (Credit: AP/Mohamed Ben Khalifa) The UN-backed arms embargo in Libya has become a joke, the UN depu

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Powers renew pledge to uphold Libya arms embargo

Countries with interests in Libya’s civil war recommitted themselves Sunday to uphold a barely working arms embargo, four weeks after a peace summit in Berlin was follo

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation challenges donors to address local problems

Over the last decade, Silicon Valley Community Foundation has become one of the favorite destinations for tech philanthropy.Counting Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Reed Hastings among its donors, S

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U.S. private sector donates 2 mln masks to China to fight coronavirus

The U.S. private sector has donated a batch of medical supplies, including 2 million masks, and has organized a shipment to China in light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the U.S.-China Busi

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China pools quality resources to step up treatment for severe cases of COVID-19

China has been pooling quality resources to step up treatment for severe and critical cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Wuhan, which account for about 18 pe

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Some elderly people to leave quarantined ship in Japan earlier than expected

The Japanese government said Thursday that some elderly passengers on the novel coronavirus-hit cruise ship quarantined in Yokohama will be allowed to disembark as ear

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Iran starts parliamentary elections

TEHRAN, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Iran's parliamentary election campaign officially started across the country on Thursday. According to Iran's Guardians Council of Constitution, the main entity in charge

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Los Angeles-based ‘deep tech’ investment firm Riot Ventures is raising a $75M fund

Riot Ventures, the Los Angeles-based, early-stage and deep technology investment firm is going out to market to raise a $75 million second fund to finance the development of startups in LA and beyond,

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Across China: A remote village's united front against epidemic

Hearing his cellphone beeping, Yu Baoliang knows he has new orders. Yu is not an online retailer, but the Party chief of Hongxing Village in mountainous Jingyuan Count

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Fiddler Labs, SRI and Berkeley experts open up the black box of machine learning at TC Sessions: Robotics+AI

As AI permeates the home, work, and public life, it’s increasingly important to be able to understand why and how it makes its decisions. Explainable AI isn’t just a matter of hitting a sw

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Tuesday Capital teams up with design powerhouse Frog to grab startups’ attention — and keep it

In a day and age when everyone seems to have their own seed-stage venture fund, it’s hard to stand out. But Tuesday Capital, the San Francisco-based outfit formerly known as CrunchFund, thinks i

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Narendra Modi concedes defeat in key New Delhi election

Followers of an upstart Indian political party danced in the streets on Tuesday after inflicting a crushing defeat on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's right-wing party in a key election in the capital.

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Alpha Foods raises $28 million for its vegetarian prepared foods

Alpha Foods, the vegetarian prepared food manufacturer, has raised $28 million in financing for its portfolio of vegetarian burritos, tamales, nuggets, pizzas, burgers, patties, and sausages.The Glend

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Chinese UN mission angry at leakage of DPRK report

A spokesperson of China's Permanent Mission to the United Nations on Monday expressed indignation and concern over the leakage of a report on sanctions against the Dem

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Puerto Rico, Belgium join China Women in qualifying for Tokyo 2020

Puerto Rico players celebrate their historic qualification to theTokyo Olympics, February 9, 2020. / Courtesy of the International Basketball Federation Belgium and Puerto Rico have qualified

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As top exhibitors pull out of MWC, organizers implement stringent safeguards

A couple of weeks out, Mobile World Congress organizer, the GSMA, has issued some fairly sweeping safeguards over growing concerns around the coronavirus. After a number of high profile back outs, inc

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Increasing number of businesses shut down in Lebanon amid economic crisis

Head of Statistics Lebanon Rabih Haber announced on Saturday that 5,500 factories have shut down in Lebanon during 2019 due to the economic and financial crisis, LBCI