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CDC blacklists VOA for allegedly promoting 'Chinese propaganda'

Voice of America (VOA), the largest U.S. international broadcaster, has been "blacklisted" by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for interview requests because it allegedly promo

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U.S. medical examiner rules Atlanta police shooting of Rayshard Brooks homicide

The fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old African American man, outside a fast food restaurant on Friday in Atlanta, in the U.S. state of Georgia, wa

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7 Minneapolis police officers resign, more expected to leave

Protesters react as they set fire to the entrance of a police station as demonstrations continue in Minneapolis, U.S., May 28,2020. /Reuters At least seven Minneapolis police officers have res

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Roundup: Italy shifts attention to post-COVID-19 health, economic priorities

Italy's four-month-old coronavirus situation continued to trend in the right direction, data from the Civil Protection Department showed Sunday, as political leaders are shifting their attention t

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Racism among minorities slows down U.S. economy, Dallas Fed chief says

Demonstrators protest against police brutality in Times Square in Manhattan, New York, U.S., May 31, 2020. /Xinhua Systemic racism and high unemployment levels among black and Hispanic America

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French police clash with anti-racism protesters in Paris

Police officers run during a protest against police brutality and the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Paris, France June 13, 2020. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier French police

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Burundi's president-elect to take office 'as soon as possible'

Burundi's Constitutional Court on Friday ruled that the country's newly elected leader Evariste Ndayishimiye be rapidly sworn in following the sudden death of President Pierre Nkurunziza earlier this

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Toppling Confederate statues becomes another battlefield against "systemic" racial discrimination

Removing statues of Confederacy, a group of southern U.S. states favouring slavery in the American Civil War, has become a new battlefield, as nationwide protests against racial discrimination have

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Spotlight: Influential COVID-19 model forecasts nearly 170,000 deaths in U.S. by Oct. 1

A man wearing a face mask walks by a memorial for COVID-19 victims in front of Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, May 27, 2020. (Ph

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Spotlight: Influential COVID-19 model forecasts nearly 170,000 deaths in U.S. by Oct. 1

An influential COVID-19 model produced by the University of Washington has revised its projections, forecasting nearly 170,000 COVID-19 deaths in the United States by O

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Zencastr is testing a video podcasting tool in limited beta

Early this week, Zencastr sent out an email to a select number of users, outlining plans to test a new video podcasting tool. The service has grown significantly in popularity over the last year or so

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Twitter trials 'read before you retweet' to promote 'informed discussion'

Twitter says the pop-up will "help promote informed discussion" and "encourage people to read a linked article" before retweeting.

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Slovakia's ex-premier Pellegrini to form new political party

Former Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini announced Wednesday a plan to leave his leftist party to establish a new center-left political organization.Pellegrini has

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German government agrees on national hydrogen strategy

The German government agreed Wednesday on a long-term strategy for increasing production and use of hydrogen as part of a plan to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emiss

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COVID-19 must be wake-up call for greater multilateral economic cooperation: Guterres

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks at the launch of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2019, at the UN headquarters in N

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New York to scrap law that shields police; DC approves police reforms

New York lawmakers voted on Tuesday to repeal a decades-old law that shields police officers' disciplinary records from the public. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has said he will sign the bill into

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Study: Widespread mask-wearing could prevent further COVID-19 waves

VCG Population-wide use of face masks could push COVID-19 transmission down to controllable levels and could prevent further waves of the pandemic when combined with lockdowns, according to a