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WHO says India must reduce mobility and mixing to rein in pandemic

A health worker takes swab samples from a woman for COVID-19 test on the roadside, in Bangalore, India on Oct. 9, 2020. /Xinhua India must control mobility and mixing to reduce a surge in infe

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World's most effective malaria vaccine developed in UK

The illness spread by mosquito bites killed at least four times as many more people in Africa last year as COVID did.

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UK startup Causal raises $4.2M to kill Excel with a better number-crunching app

Excel and Google Sheets can only address pure ‘number crunching’ in a limited way. A new UK startup, Causal hopes to tackle this issue and has now raised a $4.2 million seed round led by Accel. Existi

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Africa's COVID-19 infections top 4.4 million

A South African health worker is inoculated with a dose of Covid-19 vaccine at the Khayelitsha Hospital in Cape Town on February 17, 2021. /Gianluigi Guercia/VCG The number of confirmed COVID-

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Detroit VCs weigh in on fundraising and building startups in Michigan and the Midwest

TechCrunch just hosted a small virtual meetup with Detroit startups and venture capitals. Like the one we held last month in Miami, the event was a blast and featured a talk with two local VCs on wh

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COVID-19: Expectant women in Kenya afraid to give birth in hospitals

04:14 In Kenya, pregnant women are among those who have been greatly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.A recent health ministry report suggests that a section of pregnant women, afraid

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UK records another 1,882 coronavirus cases, 10 deaths

FILE PHOTO: A medical worker attends to a patient in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, UK. /VCG Another 1,882 people in Britain have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus

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COVID-19: Vaccine helps protect endangered black-footed ferrets

02:40 Black-footed ferrets are carnivorous mammals that live in North America, mostly in the U.S. Considered an endangered species, the critters nearly went extinct around 1980."We hav

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Hear from Detroit VCs on how to raise cash in the Motor City today at TechCrunch’s free Detroit meetup

We hope you can make our virtual meetup in Detroit today. The event is free, features a pitch-off with Detroit startups, a talk regarding StockX, and a panel with Detroit VCs on best practices when fu

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Detroit’s native son, billionaire Dan Gilbert, makes the case for his town

Dan Gilbert loves his hometown of Detroit. He loves it so much that the billionaire founder of what would eventually become the mortgage lender Quicken Loans has poured at least $2.5 billion into reha

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Biden's great tax rebalancing

Editor's note: Daron Acemoglu, professor of economics at MIT, is co-author (with James A. Robinson) of "Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty" and "The Narrow Corridor: St

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Uber hit with default ‘robo-firing’ ruling after another EU labor rights GDPR challenge

Labor activists challenging Uber over what they allege are ‘robo-firings’ of drivers in Europe have trumpeted winning a default judgement in the Netherlands — where the Court of Amst

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Despite short supply, COVAX distributes nearly 40 mln vaccine doses

A South Sudanese health worker receives AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at Juba Teaching Hospital in Juba, capital of South Sudan, April 7, 2021. (Xinhua/Denis Elamu) Close to 40 million COVID-19

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Africa's COVID-19 cases pass 4.35 million: Africa CDC

A medical worker shows a vial of the COVID-19 vaccine in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 13, 2021. (Xinhua/Michael Tewelde) The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 4,350,5

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Mideast in Pictures

A worker sits on his cart at the Grand Bazaar in Tehran, Iran, April 10, 2021. (Photo by Ahmad Halabisaz/Xinhua) The Iranian Health Ministry on Sunday reported 21,063 new COVID-19 cases, takin

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Two new vaccination sites established in Beijing district

02:40 Beijing has established two new COVID-19 vaccination sites in itsEconomic-Technological Development Area (ETDA) in southeast Beijing's Daxing District as part of

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Italy's economy seen growing 4.1% this year, business lobby says

A worker carries out sanitation operations for the Coronavirus emergency in Piazza dei Miracoli near to the Tower of Pisa in a deserted town on March 17, 2020 in Pisa, Italy. /Getty Images Ita