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Luxury air travel startup Aero raises $20M

Aero, a startup backed by Garrett Camp’s startup studio Expa, has raised $20 million in Series A funding — right as CEO Uma Subramanian said demand for air travel is returning “with a veng

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China rejects EU's 'state capitalism' assertion, calls for free trade

The European Commission's viewing of China as a state capitalism follower goes against the facts, said China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) Friday.On February 18, the European Commission issued a co

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Pope institutes Catholic day to honour the elderly

Pope Francis on Sunday instituted a “World day for Grandparents and the Elderly” in the Roman Catholic Church to be marked once a year to honour them and to underscore

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A Confucian perspective on Xi Jinping's Davos speech

A Chinese painting shows the conversation between Confucius and his disciples. /VCG Editor's note:Andy Mok is a research fellow at the Center for China and Globalization. The article reflects

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Boston Globe will consider people’s requests to have articles about them anonymized

The Boston Globe is starting a new program by which people who feel an article at the newspaper is harmful to their reputation can ask that it be updated or anonymized.

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6 investors on 2021’s mobile gaming trends and opportunities

Many VCs historically avoided placing bets on hit-driven mobile gaming content in favor of clearer platform opportunities, but as more success stories pop up, the economics overturned conventional wis

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President Xi to attend WEF Davos Agenda: spokesperson

FILE PHOTO: Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission

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Why Ugandans gave President Museveni a sixth lap

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda attends the London Conference on Somalia at Lancaster House, in London, England, May 11, 2017. /Getty Editor's note: Stephen Ndegwa is a Nairobi-based commu

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Daily Crunch: WhatsApp responds to privacy backlash

WhatsApp delays enforcement of a controversial privacy change, Apple may get rid of the Touch Bar in future MacBooks and Bumble files to go public. This is your Daily Crunch for January 15, 2021.The b

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Malaysia's opposition leader to seek king's assent to end state of emergency

Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said on Thursday he would submit an appeal to the king to end a state of emergency imposed to fight the coronavirus, which he

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Indian Farmers to Extend Protests After Rejecting Court Proposal

Tens of thousands of farmers will continue their protests against India’s new farm laws until they are repealed, rejecting the top court’s decision to keep them in abey

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Insurrection, tragedy and hypocrisy at the Capitol steps

Pro-Trump protesters clash with police during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by Congress, on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., Janua

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Facebook hires a VP of civil rights

Facebook has hired Roy Austin to become its first-ever VP of Civil Rights and Deputy General Counsel to create a new civil rights organization within the company, Facebook announced today. Austin is s

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Why China's Civil Code is milestone legislation

VCGEditor's note: Zhang Can is an assistant judge of Beijing Intellectual Property Court. The article reflects the author's views, and not necessarily those of CGTN.The

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Fruity energy, spidery lenses: Nature-inspired solutions in 2020

Climate change and biodiversity loss are laying bare our dependence on the natural world for everything from the food we eat to the air we breathe.But nature also holds the solution to other problems

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Trump lost, but will Trumpism endure in the Republican Party?

Will Trumpism continue to dominate the Republican Party? To answer that question, one first needs to define the term Trumpism.Despite the common belief that Trump's ideas and decisions do not refl