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Italian police downgrade migrant influx to Sicily from 400 to 70: ANSA

Italian police check small boat found abandoned near Agrigento, Sicily after migrants landed, Italy, May 24, 2020. /AFP Italian police on Sunday corrected a report that a record 400 migrants h

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Iran oil tanker reaches Venezuela amid US tension

The first of five Iranian oil tankers has entered Venezuela's waters carrying more than a million barrels of fuel.The Iranian tankers are being escorted by the Venezuel

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India registers another biggest single-day spike in COVID-19 cases

India on Sunday reported 6,767 cases, another biggest single-day spike, in COVID-19 cases during the last 24 hours, pushing infection tally across the country to 131,8

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Startups Weekly: SoftBank portfolio results show which tech sectors are still thriving

Editor’s note: Want this in your inbox every Saturday morning? Click here to subscribe to Startups Weekly and all the other great TechCrunch newsletters. Remember when the top investors and comp

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Update: Africa's COVID-19 cases pass 100,000 mark

A worker disinfects a cross-border truck from Tanzania in Kirehe district, eastern Rwanda, April 30, 2020. (Xinhua/Cyril Ndegeya) The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases across Africa surpassed 100,00

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China achieved stable growth despite complex environment in 2019

Though faced with many challenges and difficulties in 2019 and the first few months of 2020,including the outbreak of COVID-19, the most challenging public health emergency China has encountered s

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Eurozone contraction eased in May but still sharp

An employee of German car manufacturer Porsche works on a Porsche sports car at the Porsche factory in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Germany, February 19, 2019. /Reuters The devastating impact of th

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Russia cases top 300,000, Rolls-Royce cull: COVID-19 daily bulletin

- British aerospace manufacturer Rolls-Royce said it is to cut 9,000 jobs due to the anticipated drop in air travel after COVID-19. The cut is 17 percent of its global staff.- Russia's confirmed numb

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Chinese music concerts serve up sounds to soothe the soul

Candles are lit, incense sticks burn and percussion instruments of various sizes and shapes are lying on the table. Feng Mantian, player of the ruan, a traditional Chinese plucked, stringed instrument

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France, Germany propose vast recovery fund

Angela Dorothea Merkel (L), Chancellor of Germany, with French President Emmanuel Macron. /Reuters France and Germany have proposed a 500-billion-euro fund to finance the relaunch of the Europ

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2 dead, 13 injured in SW China quake

Two died, at least 13 others were injured and one person was trapped in debris, after a 5-magnitude earthquake struck Qiaojia County in southwest China's Yunnan Provin

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Rocket hits near U.S. embassy in Baghdad

Iraqi security forces walk as the Hashd al-Shaabi (paramilitary forces) fighters set the U.S. embassy wall on fire, as they protest to condemn air strikes on their bases, Baghdad, Iraq, December

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Humanity's globalization experiment is entering 'deep water zone'

A cargo ship. /VCG Editor's note:David Lee is a Beijing-based consultant and author mainly writing about energy, health, international politics and international development. The article refle

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U.S. stock market disconnected from real economy: experts

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the financial sector is unlikely immune to further damage and the rosy U.S. stock market indicates disconnect from the economy, scholars observed at the 2

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MOFCOM: China will further open up to meet challenges amid COVID-19

China will speed up the implementation of its new foreign investment law and the construction of the free trade port in Hainan Province in order to meet huge challenges in sourcing foreign capital li

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Discover China: South China islanders guard whales' "dining hall"

As the tide was still on the ebb at 6 a.m. on Weizhou Island in south China, Chen Mo, a marine biologist, got up, donned a wetsuit and grabbed his sampling tools, rush

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Dortmund past Schalke 4-0 as Bundesliga restarts with no fans

Players of Borussia Dortmund celebrate after the Bundesliga match against FC Schalke 04 at Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund, Germany, May 16, 2020. /VCG Borussia Dortmund players paid tribute aft