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Iran cancels Friday prayer ceremony over COVID-19

Iranian capital Tehran's Friday prayer ceremony was cancelled by the headquarters of the event, official IRNA news agency reported on Thursday. The ceremony has been c

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This Week in Apps: HQ Trivia’s dramatic death, Android 11, Apple mulls a more open iOS

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Australia's Great Barrier Reef shows signs of new coral bleaching

The government agency tasked with monitoring the health of Australia's Great Barrier Reef has detected signs of heat stress in several coral regions, increasing the prospects of another major bleachi

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Three more coronavirus cases in Iran, two dead

Iranian couple wearing face masks at Grand Bazaar in Tehran, Iran, February 20, 2020. /Reuters Iran said Thursday that three more people have been infected with the novel coronavirus, followin

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Max Q: Spacex gets ready for first human flight

Max Q is a new weekly newsletter all about space. Sign up here to receive it weekly on Sundays in your inbox.This week turned out to be a surprisingly busy one in space news – kicked off by the Trump

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AU beefs up preparedness for coronavirus outbreak

The Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) of the African Union (AU) has announced that enhanced efforts are underway to prepare for any possible outbreak of novel coronavirus

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Pakistan's National Assembly passes resolution to support China against novel coronavirus

Pakistan's National Assembly passed a resolution on Thursday to express solidarity with China over its battle against the novel coronavirus outbreak. According to the

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This Week in Apps: Chinese giants take on Google Play, Iowa caucus disaster, TikTok’s power over App Store charts

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Indexes drop from record highs, but tally strong weekly gains

Wall Street fell from record levels on Friday after a four-day rally as investors digested the monthly U.S. jobs report and braced for the next coronavirus developments, but stocks still posted so

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Daily Crunch: Netflix makes autoplay previews optional

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe her

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More tech workers are starting to unionize

Within the last two months, two groups of gig workers have effectively organized and joined unions. The first was a group of 40 San Francisco-based workers for scooter startup Spin that joined Teamste

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Iraq's Shiite leader condemns attacks against anti-gov't protesters

Iraq's top Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Friday condemned the recent attacks against the anti-government protesters."The repeated calls by the religious aut

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S.Korean president's approval rating rises to 48.0 pct: poll

South Korean President Moon Jae-in's approval rating rose this week, a weekly poll showed Thursday. According to the Realmeter survey, support for Moon gained 3.0 perc

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APD | Sri Lanka's national airlines cuts flights to China

By APD writer Easwaran COLOMBO, Feb 5 (APD)-- Sri Lanka's national airline, on Wednesday, announced that it was reducing its flights to China as demand saw a drop follo

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Iran says Trump's Mideast peace plan ignores Palestinians' rights

The Iranian foreign ministry said on Monday that U.S. president's recent Middle East peace plan, also known as the Deal of the Century, pays no heed to the Palestinian

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EU envoy visits Iran for talks on multiple issues

Josep Borrell, high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy, arrived in Iran for talks with Iranian senior officials on multiple i

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This Week in Apps: Apple’s record quarter, dating apps under investigation, Byte launches to problems

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