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Albania's ruling Socialists set to win general election: exit poll

Socialist Party leader Edi Rama leaves after casting his vote during the parliamentary election in Surel, near Tirana, Albania, April 25, 2021. /Reuters Albania's ruling Socialist Party looked

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Why are the DPP authorities so soft on the Fukushima issue?

Tanks storing treated radioactive water on the premises of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, January 8, 2021. /Getty Editor's note: Zhou Wenxing is a research fellow at Huazhi Instit

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UK's Heathrow Airport Refuses To Allow Additional Flights from 'Red Listed' India After 23 April

Fearing that the double-mutant India strain of coronavirus could be resistant to vaccines, British Health Minister Matt Hancock has announced travel restrictions for pe

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EU outlines ambitious AI regulations focused on risky uses

Risky uses of AI that threaten people's safety or rights should be banned or tightly controlled, said EU officials. /CFP Risky uses of artificial intelligence (AI) that threaten people's safet

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UN rights chief welcomes guilty verdict in Floyd's murder case

George Floyd, and his last words, are depicted in a mural by graffiti artist "EME Freethinker" on a section of the former Berlin Wall. /AP The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

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Hear Biden's approval ratings for his first 100 days set to music

U.S. President Joe Biden's approval ratings for his first 100 days has remained relatively stable with an average of 53%, according to an analysis of multiple polls by FiveThirtyEight.Biden's numb

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Haodf.com: More demand for online medical services expected

02:12 Higher demand for online medical cares will be seen in the post-pandemic era, said Wang Hang, the founder and CEO of Chinese online healthcare giant Haodf.com.Man

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British race report savaged by UN experts

A panel of United Nations human experts has joined the chorus of denunciation of a British government report that minimized the impact of racism on the life chances of the nation's ethnic minoriti

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The big conversion: Preparing Europe for an electric car revolution

05:29 The rate of growth for the electric car industry is reliant on sufficient investment in infrastructure, according to a senior advisor for the non-governmental organization that w

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Adam Toledo, 13, among the latest victims of police shootings in U.S.

00:50 Hundreds marched through the streets of Chicago on Friday to protest the police shooting of Adam Toledo, a day after the city released a graphic video of a police officer shootin

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California on the frontline of climate change

02:41 In the U.S. state of California, record temperatures have been recorded over the past year, as the state witnessed its worst wildfire season in recent history, along with increas

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JPMorgan profit leaps 400% after reserve release boost

JPMorgan Chase & Co building in the central business district of Hong Kong, China. /CFP JPMorgan Chase Co's earnings jumped almost 400 percent in the first quarter, blowing past estimates as t

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PM Boris Johnson urges caution as UK economy reopens from lockdown

Large crowds of revellers packed into London's Soho on the first night of lockdown restrictions easing. /Tolga Akmen/AFP UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned the country to prepare for m

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Brazil's virus outlook darkens amid vaccine supply snags

April is shaping up to be Brazil's darkest month yet in the COVID-19 pandemic, with hospitals struggling with a crush of patients, deaths on track for record highs and

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Brazil's virus outlook darkens amid vaccine supply snags

Patients wait for test results in a temporary room of the municipal hospital in Sao Joao de Meriti, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, April 8, 2021. /AP April is shaping up to be Brazil's darkest

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Biodiversity 'hot spots' devastated in warming world

Unless nations dramatically improve on carbon cutting pledges made under the 2015 Paris climate treaty, the planet's richest concentrations of animal and plant life will be irreversibly ravaged by gl

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As working out goes virtual, Moxie raises $6.3M Seed+ round led by Resolute Ventures

With the pandemic sending the planet indoors to workout, the at-home fitness market has boomed. It was only in October last year that three-year-old Future closed $24 million in Series B and Playbook