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French firm turning cotton buds into COVID-19 testing swabs

01:49 A French cotton bud manufacturer has started to produce thousands of COVID-19 nasal swabs to enable the country to safely begin easing lockdown restrictions on 11 May. France's n

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Across China: China's resort island pilots "waste bank" for clean bay

Trash in exchange for goods? The seemingly impossible now becomes true thanks to a "waste bank" recently established in southern China's island province of Hainan. Wang

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How to avoid a W-shaped recession

Editor's note: Jeffrey Frankel is professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University. The article reflects the author's opinions, not necessarily the views of CGTN."Those who cannot r

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Biden declares sexual assault ‘never, never happened’

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday emphatically denied all egations from a former Senate staffer that he sexually assaulted her in the early 1990s, d

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LeBron: Lakers ready to play despite call to cancel NBA

Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James said Thursday he's ready for the NBA to return, refuting a report some agents and team executives want the league to scrap the 2019-20 season."Saw some re

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Biden on sexual assault allegation: ‘never, never happened’

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday categorically denied allegations from a former Senate staffer that he sexually assaulted her in the early 1990s, s

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'W-shaped' recovery may be too optimistic, Fed's Powell suggests

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has sketched out an altogether bumpier ride for the U.S. economy than many are predicting – one that sees business activity stop and start for months to come, unti

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Lyft ends electric scooter operations in Oakland, Austin and San Jose

Lyft, which just had a massive round of layoffs where 982 people lost their jobs and 288 were furloughed, is also pumping the brakes on its scooter operations in a handful of cities.In an email sent t

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Economies and 'reproduction rates' shrinking: COVID-19 daily bulletin

HEADLINES– COVID-19's reproduction rate in Germany is currently averaging 0.76, according to the RKI public health authority. As the rate reflects the number each person will subsequently infect, a n

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The U.S. needs to open up about its biological labs in the former USSR

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Biden assault allegation prompts GOP attacks, Dem worries

A sexual assault allegation is raising Joe Biden’s first big challenge as the Democrats’ presidential nominee, fueling Republican attacks and leaving many in his own pa

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When regulation presents a (rare) opportunity

Every time we realize something new about the coronavirus, it’s always worse than we thought: maybe we don’t develop immunity to it; maybe six feet of social distancing isn’t far enough; maybe the spr

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Profile: The last female hunter hits target of shaking off poverty

Wearing sparkling earrings and high heels, 29-year-old Na Si is bottle feeding her one-year-old son. Few would connect the modern mom with a very primitive skill -- hunting. "I was able to hit a

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Across China: Solidarity can defeat COVID-19 pandemic: Equatorial Guinean student

Hailing from Equatorial Guinea, Mba Nchama Pedro Nsue has studied in China for nearly seven years. He said his journey to China was about finding an answer to how a cou

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Domestic abuse rises amid lockdown in Mexico

Almost 1,000 women were murdered in Mexico in the first three months of this year, according to government data, showing a spike in violence that combined with coronavirus lockdown measures, advocate

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UK PM Boris Johnson Refuses to Relax COVID-19 Lockdown to Avoid Second Wave

Earlier on Monday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made his first public appearance days after being discharged from a hospital where he'd spent a week, including

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Equity Monday: Startups run low on cash, and why some Internet tailwinds are fading

Good morning and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a jumpstart for your week.Regular Equity episodes still drop each and every Friday morning, so if you’ve listened to the show over the year