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'Nine minutes of terror' as China becomes second country to land on Mars

The Tianwen-1 vessel has landed in an icy area known as Utopia Planitia, about 1,200 miles away from America's Perseverance rover.

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Biden revokes Trump's order for 'National Garden of American Heroes'

The then U.S. President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he arrives for the Independence Day events at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota, U.S., July 3, 2020. /AFP U.S. P

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Death toll rises as violence rocks Gaza, Israel and West Bank

Smoke and flame rise during Israeli air strikes, as cross-border violence between the Israeli military and Palestinian militants continues, in Gaza City, May 14, 2021. /Reuters Israeli planes

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3 rockets fired from Syria toward Israel: military

Three rockets were fired on Friday night from Syria toward northern Israel, according to the Israeli military."Three launches were identified from Syria into the Israeli territory," an Israeli milita

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China's probe lands on Mars

The lander carrying China's first Mars rover has touched down on the Red Planet, the China National Space Administration confirmed on Saturday morning. Source(s): Xinhu

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UN chief calls for immediate end to Israeli-Palestinian hostilities

Antonio Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations. /VCG UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called on all parties to immediately cease the fighting in Gaza and Israel, said

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Greece looks to double tourism takings in 2021

People visit the National Gallery in Athens, Greece, on May 14, 2021. All the museums in Greece reopened for the public on Friday as the strict measures against COVID-19 are lifted. /Xinhua Gr

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Amazon announces 10,000 new jobs in UK

Photo taken on May 7, 2020 shows a window of a temporarily closed Amazon bookstore in Washington D.C., the United States. /Xinhua Amazon announced on Friday that it will create more than 10,00

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TikTok gets Finnish kids started in the morning - study

TikTok 'may have been taken over as children's favorite morning entertainment.' /AP/Kiichiro Sato, File The social media video-sharing platform TikTok has significantly altered the morning rou

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Means of production prices increase in China

Coal-related goods and ferrous metal lead the upward trend of capital goods prices in early May. /CFPMost of the capital goods monitored by the government registered hi

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Xi convenes symposium on advancing water diversion project development

President Xi Jinping on Friday convened a symposium on advancing the high-quality follow-up development of China's mega water diversion project.Xi stressed the need to

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Biden is being influenced by Trump's 'China, China, China' mantra

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 25, 2021. /Getty Editor's note: Azhar Azam works in a private orga

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Rural vitalization is again what Xi's tour is all about

Chinese President Xi Jinping visits a theme park on the Chinese rose, inspecting how Nanyang uses the flower to develop its specialty industries, create more jobs and boost local employment, in N

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Brazilian town armed with China's Sinovac vaccine is beating COVID-19

People walk on Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 9, 2021. /CFP Life in Serrana, a small town located in the southeast state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is returning to normal while the COVID

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China's FDI inflow surges nearly 40% in Jan.- Apr.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Chinese mainland, in actual use, surged 38.6 percent year on year to 397.07 billion yuan ($61.45 billion) in the first four months of this year, the Ministry

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Biden says to bring up cybercrime issue in talks with Putin

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday that the Russian government was not behind the cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline while noting he would raise the cybercrime issue in talks with Russian Presid

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Putin advocates stronger UN role in talks with Guterres

Russian President Vladimir Putin gives his annual state of the nation address in Manezh, Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. /VCG Russia supports strengthening the role of the United Na