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Hunger crisis accelerating in southern Madagascar: WFP

Hunger is worsening in drought-ravaged southern Madagascar, where the number of people in need has tripled in a matter of months, the UN's food agency said Friday. /VCG Hunger is worsening in

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China confident it can prevent new COVID-19 wave despite recent surge

Visitors in front of a giant flower basket at Tian'anmen Square in Beijing on September 30, one day before the National Day./VCGChina is confident it can prevent a new

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Link between spreadsheet blunder and 1,500 COVID deaths dismissed as 'misleading'

Researchers claims the error "likely propelled England to a different stage of COVID-19 spread" at the start of the second wave.

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Concern grows for Eritrean refugees amid ongoing fighting in Ethiopia

Ethiopian refugees gather in Qadarif region, eastern Sudan, November 20, 2020. /AP Shaken by the gunfire erupting around her town in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, a woman decided to join

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The US recommends not traveling over Thanksgiving

In this file photo taken on May 22, 2020, a man carries his bags through the main hall of Union Station in Washington, DC. /AFP The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cautioned Amer

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How the pandemic might strengthen BRICS

VCG. Editor's note:Alessandro Golombiewski Teixeira is a national thousand-talent distinguished professor of public policy at Tsinghua University's School of Public Policy and Management and a

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Azerbaijan delays takeover, denounces fleeing Armenians

Smoke rises from a burning house as cars and trucks are stuck in a huge traffic jam climbing along the road from Kalbajar leaving the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, on November

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RCEP took the wind out of the Quad's anti-Chinese sails

The signing ceremony of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement is held via video conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, November 15, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's Note: Andrew Korybk

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Over 14,000 people fled conflict in Mozambique since mid-October

VCG Images More than 14,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the Cabo Delgado province of northern Mozambique due to violence since mid-October, according to the United Nations R

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Biden vows to ‘get right to work’ despite Trump resistance

Vowing “to get right to work,” President-elect Joe Biden shrugged off President Donald Trump’s fierce refusal to accept the election outcome as “inconsequential,” even

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How a victory for Biden might impact future of U.S.-China relations

Customers watch a speech by Joe Biden on a television during an election watching event at a local bar in Beijing, China, November 4, 2020. /Getty Editor's note: Alessa

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Illinois reports record single-day COVID-19 cases

Workers help residents process a COVID-19 self-test at a mobile COVID-19 testing site set up in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago, June 23, 2020. /Getty Images Illinois reported a record numb

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Trump tries to turn back a tidal wave of early voting

Throughout the 2020 campaign, President Trump has pursued a strategy to try to keep voter turnout low in the general election, which, conventional wisdom holds, helps R

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India-U.S. 'enemy of my enemy' military pact not destined to endure

India and the U.S. have made a premeditated choice to sign a military agreement dubbed the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA) to share high-end military te

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India-U.S. 'enemy of my enemy' military pact not destined to endure

India and the U.S. have made a premeditated choice to sign a military agreement dubbed the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA) to share high-end military te

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Sovereign default risks to rise further in 2021: Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. headquarters stands in New York, U.S., on Saturday, April 11, 2020. /VCG Sovereign default risks are on course to rise further in 2021, with Iraq, Sri Lanka, Angola an

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Czechia's curfew, protests in Italy and Spain: COVID-19 daily bulletin

Czechia has implemented a 9 p.m. curfew from Wednesday to slow the spread of the virus. /AP TOP HEADLINES- Violence broke out and luxury stores were vandalized in the Italian cities of Milan a