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Togo receives second batch of Chinese-donated COVID-19 vaccines

FILE PIC: Sinovac vaccines. /VCG Togo has received the second batch of Sinovac vaccines donated by China, as part of the cooperation between the two countries to fight against the upsurge of C

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US and European stock markets up as the week closes

U.S. stocks had a mixed day, but the SP 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average hit new records, helping Wall Street wrap up the week in the green.Walt Disney’s strong third-quarter profit led the wa

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Afghans fleeing say Taliban executing soldiers, attacking civilians

The Taliban are denying reports that militants are executing Afghan soldiers after they surrender.The reports have come from Afghans fleeing the relentless Taliban drive across the country. Many h

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Robinhood on Wall Street: What it means for online traders

04:20 On Jul 29, online stock trading platform Robinhood, which played a major part in the GameStop stock frenzy at the beginning of 2021, went public on Wall Street, with an initial pu

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Late deal comes to rescue the “unthinkable” U.S. government default?

02:47 The imminent decision to raise the borrowing limits for the U.S. government awaits Congress. Wall Street scrambled to park cash at the Federal Reserve before a two-year suspension

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Senegal's circular gardens part of Great Green Wall project

01:00 See how these edible, circular gardens are part of a bigger project to bring a belt of green across the continent of Africa.The “Tolou Keur” edible, circular gardens are resistan

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Twitter beats revenue targets with advertisement improvements, shares jump by 5%

Twitter on Thursday reported higher revenue growth than Wall Street had expected, as the social media platform rolled out advertisement targeting improvements to help b

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Art of the Party: The Land So Rich in Beauty

01:45 The nine-meter-long ink brush painting, “Jiangshan Ruci Duojiao” (The Land So Rich in Beauty), co-created by Chinese artists Guan Shanyue and Fu Baoshi in 1959.The painting was in

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Experts call for honest assessment on U.S. pandemic response: WSJ

A discarded face mask lies on a pool's edge in Brooklyn of New York City as the city reopens its outdoor public pools, U.S., June 26, 2021. /CFP American experts called for an all-round honest

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UK PM Johnson suffers embarrassing by-election defeat

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered an embarrassing defeat when his Conservative Party lost a parliamentary by-election on the outskirts of London, just a few

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Former diplomat talks about his experience in China

04:21 In the 1980s China was a far different place than it is now. The country was in the early phases of development and changing rapidly.CharlesRayhad a unique view of the country in

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AMC sees rollercoaster on Wall Street after becoming “meme stock”

02:13 AMC Entertainment’s share price has been on a wild ride in recent weeks as meme stocks have made a comeback on Wall StreetWhile GameStop made the bulk of the headlines earlier thi

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Biden administration returning $2 billion in Trump border wall funds to Pentagon

The Biden administration on Friday announced plans to return to the Pentagon roughly $2 billion in unspent military construction funds seized by the Trump administratio

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Millions of J&J jabs to expire in U.S., states scramble to use stocks

Millions of Johnson & Johnson vaccines are set to expire in June, and thousands could be wasted because fewer and fewer Americans are getting vaccinated, according to reports. /Getty Images Mi

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Remains of 4,500-year-old bamboo-mud cabin found in China

Archaeologists in southwest China's Sichuan Province said Monday that they have discovered six pieces of carbonized bamboo chips that are believed to be part of a bamboo-mud cabin dating back 4,50

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Stack Overflow acquired by Prosus for $1.8 Billion

The legendary QA website for programmers (and probably one of the most copy-and-pasted sites on the Internet) Stack Overflow is being acquired. The Wall Street Journal

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4 proven approaches to CX strategy that make customers feel loved

Customers have been “experiencing” business since the ancient Romans browsed the Forum for produce, pottery and leather goods. But digitization has radically recalibrated the buyer-seller