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China's trade network widens with diversified economic growth

China's total value of goods trade import and export in the first seven months of 2023 reached 23.55 trillion yuan ($3.27 trillion), with a 0.4 percent yearly increase,

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Light is the key to long-range, fully autonomous EVs

Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) hold immense promise. At times, the headlines about the autonomous vehicle (AV) industry seem ominous, with a focus on accidents, regulation or company valuat

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Erase All Kittens raises $1M Seed round for Mario-style game which teaches girls to code

Erase All Kittens (EAK) is an EdTech startup that created a ‘Mario-style’ web-based game designed for kids aged 8-12. However, the game has a twist: it places an emphasis on inspiring girls to code (s

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'No vaccine for violence': America endures steep rise in murders

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India's Modi surprises with Sikh temple visit amid farm protests

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an unscheduled visit to a Sikh temple in New Delhi on Sunday, kneeling down in respect and freely clicking pictures with visito

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Europe's moment of truth as COVID-19 recovery summit exposes divides

01:24 It's Europe's moment of truth: one of the most difficult summits in its history. European Union leaders assembled in Brussels on Friday to discuss a recovery plan to rescue econo

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Spike raises $8 million to make your email look like a chat app

Asynchronous chat apps like Slack have done their best to kill email, but maybe the key to chat replacing email is just making email look like chat? That’s the idea of Spike, a productivity star

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U.S. trade deficit widens in April amid COVID-19 fallout

The overall U.S. trade deficit widened by 16.7 percent in April as the COVID-19 pandemic weighed on both imports and exports, the U.S. Commerce Department reported Thu

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Serie A targets May return, Premier League hopes play resumes in June

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NATO's poor performance in fighting COVID-19

Screenshot of NATO's website shows Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg giving opening remarks at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers, April 2, 2020. Editor's Note: Li Yun is a researcher at th

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Spotlight: Biden widens lead over Sanders in Democratic presidential primaries

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden widened his lead over veteran Senator Bernie Sanders in six-state Democratic presidential primaries on Tuesday. Biden was projecte