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Black entrepreneurs working hard to carve out space in tech industry

Although the COVID-19 pandemic hit the startup world hard with layoffs, those that did survive pulled in record amounts of venture capital funding – $130 billion in 2020.But often left behind were st

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Multi-factor authentication under scrutiny after pipeline attack

01:54 The Colonial Pipeline carries nearly half the fuel consumed along the entire East Coast of the United States.The recent cyberattack that shutdown the company last month was enough

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Four killed, over 170,000 affected by strong winds, rains in Sri Lanka

Four people were killed and over 170,000 were affected by days of strong gales and heavy rains which lashed out across Sri Lanka over the last few days, the Disaster Management Center said on Saturda

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Assad vaccinated as Syria receives first shipment of Russian shots - report

President Bashar al-Assad was among those to be vaccinated after Syria received a first shipment of Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, Russia's Interfax news agency re

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Biden signs executive order to combat anti-Asian racism

U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday to combat the rise of anti-Asian racism and violence in the country.The order is aimed to advance "equity, justice, and opportunity" for A

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Climate crisis forces many Hondurans to migrate to find better lives

03:01 Immigration authorities in the U.S. are grappling with the influx of undocumented migrant children in the country.Thegrowing numbers are overwhelming U.S. detention centers,where

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DC Police Asian Liaison Unit reaches out to Asian-American communities

02:50 Some startling numbers about anti-Asian bias incidents in the U.S.In March, they nearly doubled from last year - most of the cases being verbal harassment. Those figures from the

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Mainland vows to 'severely punish' those seeking 'Taiwan independence'

"The central government will take all necessary measures to severely punish stubborn secessionists seeking 'Taiwan independence,' holding them accountable lifelong in a

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Pizza vending machine installed in Rome, Italy

Click arrows to view gallery Italy has just installed its first automatic pizza vending machine in its capital city of Rome.The machine can knead the dough, season, bake

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Dialogue with China CDC director - ongoing fight against COVID-19

28:05 After bringing COVID-19 under control, China is now making great efforts to accelerate the process of vaccination. How is the country getting the larger part of the population vac

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COVID-19 deaths due to oxygen shortage 'not less than genocide'

A man works inside the Oxygen plant for the newly-built hall for COVID-19 patients at NESCO, Goregaon, on May 3, 2021 in Mumbai, India. /CFP Death of COVID-19 patients due to non-supply of oxy

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Left behind, families of migrants long for reunion

03:35 For every Central American migrant that makes the difficult journey north, many more are left behind.In El Progreso, Honduras, CGTN met a family that deals with the separation eve

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Guangxi artists help preserve ancient folk songs

Folk songs are typically those sung in the fields during or after work, which are popular in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Among local ethnic minorities, the Zhuang people love to sing

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Louisiana’s seafood industry depends on a healthy coastline

05:00 Louisiana, perhaps the U.S. state suffering most fromclimatechange, has an ambitious 50-billion-dollar plan, to slow the destruction of its coastal wetlands. But this widely heral

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Biden says 200m COVID-19 vaccinations goal has been met

President Biden announced Wednesday that Americans have received 200 million COVID-19 vaccinations since he took office.More than half of adult Americans have had at least one shot, and by Thursday,

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Minnesota confronts history of police brutality

02:59 Adatabase maintained by the Star Tribune newspaper countsmore than 200 people killed after a physical confrontation with law enforcement in Minnesota​since the year 2000.Late last

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Colombia’s government struggles to fight environmental destruction

02:45 Colombian legislators are working to pass a bill that will help fine those responsible for damagingtheenvironment. But experts say much more is needed to help rightenvironmental w