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Commentary: China-Africa solidarity in action amid COVID-19 fight

For decades, the China-Africa friendship has weathered vicissitudes at every critical juncture. As the two partners jointly tackle the ravaging coronavirus pandemic, their ties -- featuring sincerit

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UK economy shrinks by 2% in Q1 due to coronavirus

The UK economy shrank by two percent in the first three months of 2020, signalling the first direct impacts of the coronavirus on the British economy, the Office for National Statistics said in a sta

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93% of Chinese minors are now online

Children and teenagers in China are hyper-connected and using the internet in ways that were unimaginable and inaccessible to earlier generations.As many as 175 million people under the age of 18, or

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Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg blames coronavirus for the streaming app’s challenges

Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg is admitting that the short-form video service’s launch hasn’t gone the way he’d hoped — and he knows what to blame for its issues.“I attribute

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New coronavirus test is imperfect step toward mass screening

A Sofia 2 Fluorescent Immunoassay Analyzer used in the coronavirus-antigen tests by the company Quidel Corporation, after the FDA gave emergency-use authorization for its Sofia 2 SARS Antigen FIA

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Answer Bank: Can COVID-19 be spread through coins and banknotes?

Considering that cash is the most preferred mode of transaction among many countries across the globe, fear of the virus spreading through coins and banknotes is on the rise amid the COVID-19 pand

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Twitter to label disputed COVID-19 tweets

Twitter announced Monday it will start alerting users when a tweet makes disputed or misleading claims about the coronavirus.The new rule is the latest in a wave of stricter policies that tech com

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U.S. Fed official says "worst is yet to come" on job front

A U.S. Federal Reserve official said Sunday that the worst is yet to come on the job front after U.S. employers cut a staggering 20.5 million jobs in April amid the CO

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COVID-19 infections accelerate in Germany after lockdown easing

German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Michael Sohn / POOL / AFP New coronavirus infections are accelerating again in Germany just days after its leaders loosened social restrictions, raising concer

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Trump says U.S. to purchase 3 bln USD dairy, meat and produce to aid struggling farmers

Cows eat grass at a dairy farm run by Kelly D. Cunningham in rural Cass County of the U.S. state of Iowa, Oct. 16, 2019. (Xinhua/Wang Ying) The U.S. president noted that the government purchase is p

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Malawi court upholds ruling annulling Mutharika’s election win

President Arthur Peter Mutharika of Malawi addresses attendees during the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. Headquarters in New York, September 29, 2015. REUTERS/Mik

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Trump says killing of unarmed black jogger "very disturbing situation"

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a young black man from the state of Georgia who was shot dead while jogging unarmed, was "a very disturbing situation." Trump

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U.S. Oregon governor releases phased reopening details

People walks along a trail at a park in San Mateo County, San Francisco Bay Area, the United States, May 4, 2020. (Photo by Li Jianguo/Xinhua) Governor of the U.S. stat

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Apple awards $10 million to rapidly scale COVID-19 sample collection kit production

Apple has awarded $10 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to COPAN Diagnostics, a company focused on producing sample collection kits for testing COVID-19 to hospitals in the U.S. The money c

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Elon Musk: Video conferencing is ‘definitely’ coming to Tesla vehicles

Ever since the Tesla Model 3 came to market in 2017, there’s been widespread speculation about an interior camera that’s hidden in the rearview mirror and faces into the car’s cabin

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U.S. private hiring collapses in April, down 20.2 mln: ADP

More than 20.2 million U.S. private-sector jobs were destroyed in April, and that almost certainly underestimates the damage from the efforts to contain the novel coronavirus, payrolls firm ADP said

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Poll finds majority of Americans oppose reopening businesses despite states loosening lockdown

A majority of Americans oppose reopening most businesses despite such measures are being taken in a phased manner in more and more states across the country, a new pol