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Belarus is having a 'peaceful revolution,' says exiled opponent

Exiled Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has said the country is rising up in a "peaceful revolution" as authorities continued their crackdown on protesters calling for new elections.I

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Racing Point driver Perez tests positive for COVID-19 ahead of F1 British Grand Prix

Racing Point's driver Sergio Perez will not race in the British Grand Prix this weekend due to a positive test for COVID-19, F1 team Racing Point announced on Thursday. Racing Point released a sta

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Brazil's Bolsonaro says he tested negative for coronavirus

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Saturday that he has tested negative for the new coronavirus, based on a fourth test since he said July 7 that he had the virus.

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Kazakh health minister replaced as COVID-19 cases jump

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Thursday removed Yelzhan Birtanov from the post of health minister, the presidential press service announced. First Deputy He

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COVID-19 cases exceed 170,000 in Iran, Turkey; Saudi Arabia's tally surpasses 100,000

As the COVID-19 continues to spread in the Middle East, Iran and Turkey have both seen their confirmed cases surpassing 170,000, while Saudi Arabia's total cases exceeded 100,000 on Sunday. Iran's

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Spurs confirms unnamed player has tested positive for COVID-19

Tottenham Hotspur in frustration after their Champions League clash with RB Leipzig at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, England, March 10, 2020. /VCG Tottenham Hotspur announced on Wednesday that th

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Bookshops to host late-night reading festival

About 30 bookshops in downtown Shanghai will collaborate to launch a late-night reading festival from June 5 to 30.During this period, the bookstores will host special sales, book signings, lectures a

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Istanbul disinfects mosques against COVID-19 ahead of reopening

Turkey's biggest city Istanbul on Tuesday disinfected mosques to make them ready for reopening on Friday as part of the government's normalization process amid a slowd

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The first Vision Fund is officially done investing (and spent $100M every day of its existence)

There is a flurry of news out of SoftBank this morning, which announced its Fiscal Year 2019 (ending March 31, 2020) financial results overnight. It’s been a bad year for the Vision Fund, with huge l

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Guenther wins Formula E 'Race at Home' opener

Nissan Formula E race car is on display during the New York International Auto Show in New York, U.S., April 17, 2019. /VCG BMW i Andretti driver Maximilian Guenther won the first round of the

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East China's Anhui explores flexible working schedule to boost consumption

East China's Anhui Province has announced it will try to implement a more flexible working schedule including a 2.5-day weekend to stimulate consumption curtailed by th

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Guenther wins Formula E 'Race at Home' opener

Nissan Formula E race car is on display during the New York International Auto Show in New York, U.S., April 17, 2019. /VCG BMW i Andretti driver Maximilian Guenther won the first round of the

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La Liga, RFEF, Spanish government reach agreement on football return

Luis Rubiales (L), president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and Javier Tebas (R), president of La Liga. /VCG The 2019-20 La Liga season is now one step closer to restarting a

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COVID-19 death toll in Netherlands rises to 3,684

The death toll of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, increased by 83 in The Netherlands in the past 24 hours, taking the total to 3,684, the National Institute for Public Healt

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Spain's daily coronavirus deaths hit four-week trough

MADRID, April 19 (Xinhua) -- The Spanish Health Ministry on Sunday confirmed that 410 people have died in the 24-hour period until 21:00 local time (1900 GMT) on Saturday, hitting a four-week trough

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Latvia reports first COVID-19 death

Latvia recorded the first death of a patient with COVID-19 on Friday, as the number of coronavirus infections continue to rise in the Baltic country. According to national health authorities, the pat

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Hit by virus fears, N. America box office near 20-year low

Under the shadow of the coronavirus outbreak, the North American box office had its lowest weekend ticket sales in two decades as viewers stayed home and some theaters limited their capacities to