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APD | Weekly top 10 hot news (February 1 - February 7)

Every weekend, Asia Pacific Daily will provide you with a run-down of the latest hot news.This week, the following hot news you should know:Top 1 | Trump impeachment: R

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Facebook’s Twitter account compromised, hacker group claims credit

There’s this brilliant feeling on Fridays if you’re a reporter when you think that all the things you have to write about are complete. You kickstart some work for Monday. Maybe you tighte

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Los Angeles-based SureSale is developing an independent certification service for used cars

Donny Hall, the chief executive and co-founder of the used car certification service, SureSale, knows used cars. The serial entrepreneur built and sold a previous business, CarSure, which was an insur

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Why were men the first to be hit by the coronavirus?

If you look at the stats, one of the puzzling facts about the coronavirus was that many of the first victims were male.More recently, however, the gender balance is around 50/50.So why would a respir

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Environmentalists and activists work to boast bee population in Mexico

02:16 The United Nations has cited a global decline in bee populations as a serious threat to plants critical to people and their livelihoods. The threats against them are many, includ

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C.A.R. mulls arms, weapons purchase from Russia to boost security

Russia and the Central African Republic have done weapons business in the past, including in 2018 and 2019. /Getty Images The Central African Republic (C.A.R.) is considering obtaining Russian

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Global Business Daily

"Brexit has changed the format of how people see the SNP, see independence, a lot of people who were never interested in independence suddenly are now massively interested."Those were the words of a

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Turkey sends more troops, tanks to Syria amid Idlib assault

Several Turkish armored vehicles and tanks entered rebel-controlled northwestern Syria early on Friday, the latest reinforcements sent in by Ankara amid a Syrian govern

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EU enlargement chief urges talks on Montenegro religion law

The European Union's enlargement commissioner on Friday urged dialogue in EU-hopeful Montenegro over a contentious religious rights law that has fueled tensions in the

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Anger at Trump plan could mobilize Arab voters in Israel

It might have seemed to be one of the more innocuous elements in President Donald Trump’s deeply divisive Middle East peace initiative: the suggestion that a densely po

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Putin hosts Belarus leader for further economic talks

Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted the leader of Belarus Friday for another round of difficult talks on closer integration amid mounting Russian economic pressure

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India to continue rebel peace accord push in troubled areas

India’s prime minister said on Friday that his government will continue its peace push in the insurgency-wracked northeastern region bordering China and Myanmar where a

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Global shortage of anti-virus masks WHO chief

File photo via AP The world is facing a chronic shortage of personal protective equipment against the new coronavirus, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-GeneralTedrosAdhanom Ghebreyesus

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White House reportedly aims to double AI research budget to $2B

The White House is pushing to dedicate an additional billion dollars to fund artificial intelligence research, effectively doubling the budget for that purpose outside of Defense Department spending,

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As its fundraising lags, SoftBank’s second Vision Fund could be near-sighted

SoftBank, the technology conglomerate that transformed the venture capital industry and made waves in the technology world with its $100 billion Vision Fund, may not be able to repeat the performance

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CCPA won’t be enough to fix tech’s data entitlement problem

When the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) rolled out on January 1st, many companies were still scrambling to become compliant with the data privacy regulation, which is estimated to cost busines

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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