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Tibet opens its first Beijing 2022 licensed product official store

Lhasa opens Tibet's first Beijing 2022 licensed product official store.BEIJING, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Tibet is opening its first Beijing 2022 licensed product official st

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New Zealand PM Slams Donald Trump's 'Patently Wrong' Claim of COVID-19 Virus ‘Surge’

After New Zealand was hailed for its successful handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, with no recorded cases for over three months, a cluster of virus infections confirmed

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Study shows light pollution reaches the sea floor, harming marine life

01:04 Besides almost obliterating the stars from our night skies – more than a third of humanity is no longer able to see the Milky Way nowadays – light pollution has become a problem

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Can cannabis shrink the garment industry's carbon footprint?

03:14 For thousands of years, cannabis has been grown for reasons other than drugs.George Washington, the first president of the U.S., grew the plant on his farm to make products such

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Trump admits blocking funding to USPS tied to voter suppression

U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House in Washington, D.C. /AP Editor's note: Bradley Blankenship is a Prague-based American journalist, political analyst and freelance reporter. The a

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Xi Focus-Quotable Quotes: Xi Jinping on promoting thrift, stopping food waste

Chinese President Xi Jinping has on many occasions called for practicing thrift and ending food waste. The following are some highlights of his remarks. -- Efforts sho

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Lebanon's military gets sweeping powers after Beirut blast

Lebanon's Parliament on Thursday approved a state of emergency in Beirut in its first session since the catastrophic Aug. 4 explosion, granting the military sweeping po

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Coronavirus breaks out again in New Zealand after 102 days

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Tuesday that authorities have found four cases of the coronavirus in one Auckland household from an unknown source, the f

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Tensions high after controversial election in Belarus

Alexander Lukashenko called demonstrators "sheep" under foreign control and vowed not to allow the country "to be torn apart," after widespread protests greeted his vic

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Businesses looted, police exchanges gunfire with looters in U.S. Chicago

At lease one security guard was shot and is in serious condition as hundreds of people swept through several downtown business areas in the U.S. city of Chicago city e

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With a renewed focus on creative skills, online learning company Skillshare raises $66M

Skillshare CEO Matt Cooper said 2020 has been a year of rapid growth — even before the pandemic forced large swaths of the population to stay home and turn to online learning for entertainment and enr

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Liaison office in HKSAR calls U.S. sanctions world's laughingstock

The Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) said Sunday that the recent so-called U.S. sanctions against some Chinese officials will

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At least 43 killed in monsoon-triggered India landslide

Rescue workers look for survivors at the site of a landslide during heavy rains in Idukki, Kerala, India, August 9, 2020. /Reuters At least 43 bodies have been recovered after a massive landsl

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75% infected in Texas prison as U.S. COVID-19 cases top 5 million

Healthcare workers hold a rally outside their hospital for safer working conditions during the pandemic, in Fountain Valley, California, U.S., August 6, 2020. /Reuters Numerous inmates in Texa

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Barclays being probed in UK on accusations of spying on staff

A Barclays branch in central London, UK, March 1, 2020. /VCG Barclays Plc is being probed by the United Kingdom's privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), over allegation

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What are the institutional designs of China's poverty reduction drive?

01:35 From relief-based poverty alleviation drive to development-oriented poverty alleviation program and then to targeted poverty alleviation, China has embarked on a distinctive deve

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Cote d'Ivoire leader to seek 3rd term revives opposition

Cote d' Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara attends the meeting of the political committee of Ivory Coast's ruling RHDP party to select their candidate for October's presidential election in Abidj