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ITTF supports decision to postpone Tokyo Olympics

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) on Tuesday expressed support to the decision to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Internationa

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World Baseball Softball Confederation welcomes Tokyo 2020 postponement

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) voiced support on Tuesday for the decision made by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Tokyo 2020 organizin

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COVID-19 cases top 200,000 in Europe, UN staff mostly work from home

The world is now in a battle against COVID-19, a disease caused by a previously unknown coronavirus that has spread to over 180 countries and regions. The following are the updates on the contagious

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COVID-19 cases top 200,000 in Europe as daily numbers rebound in Italy

The coronavirus continued to sweep across Europe, with the combined number of confirmed cases on the continent exceeding 200,000 as of Tuesday evening, accounting for half of known cases worldwid

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Global confirmed COVID-19 cases top 400,000: Johns Hopkins University

The number of COVID-19 cases worldwide topped 400,000 as of 1:52 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time on Tuesday (1752 GMT), according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineeri

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Snapchat’s Zenly launches coronavirus Stay Home leaderboard

Snapchat’s location sharing app acquisition Zenly has gamified shelter-in-place during the COVID-19 outbreak. Today the app launched its Stay At Home challenge that shows a leaderboard of which

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Silver linings emerge in Asia amid global recession fears

Market observers have pointed to silver linings in Asia even as markets worldwide fluctuated in the past weeks from a virus pandemic as well as plunging oil prices.Asian economies with closer trad

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Nonprofit aims to get COVID-19 field tests, N95 masks and more to healthcare workers without markups

A new Sydney-based nonprofit volunteer organization called RapidWard launched this week, with a focus on getting critical medical supplies from producers in China to healthcare professionals, doctors,

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Making COVID-19 response more 'international'

03:53 Editor's note: So far, COVID-19 has infected more than 200,000 people and caused nearly 10,000 deaths worldwide. With the number rising daily, governments around the world are sc

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China to further boost its int'l air freight capacity to stabilize supply chains

China will take further steps to boost the country's international air freight capacity to stabilize supply chains, the State Council's executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang decided on Tues

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Tokyo Olympics to be postponed until 2021 but keeps name of Tokyo 2020 (updated)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced here on Tuesday that Japan and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have agreed to postpone the Tokyo Olympic and Par

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French fashion houses to produce coronavirus face masks

French design houses Yves Saint Laurent and Balenciaga will shift their attention from high fashion to producing surgical face masks to aid the global coronavirus assau

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G7 video conference will be an economic sideshow

G7 leaders attend a work session during their summit at Casino in Biarritz, southwestern France, August 26, 2019. /VCG Editor's note: Jonathan Arnott is a former member of the European Parliam

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Will the G20 step up to the plate?

The devastating effects of the coronavirus pandemic on economies demand the type of a coordinated global response that has so far not been forthcoming.Monday's virtual meeting of G20 finance minis

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Spotlight: No sign of pandemic slowdown as global cases top 300,000

BRUSSELS/GENEVA, March 23 (Xinhua) -- More than 300,000 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in 189 countries and regions, said World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebrey

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Uncertainty in transfer market as sports world halts for COVID-19

Logo of UEFA Euro 2020 at a countdown clock showing 450 days to the tournament in St Petersburg, Russia, March 18, 2020. Clocks were changed from 87 to 450 days as UEFA announced that the tournam

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Spotlight: No sign of pandemic slowdown as global cases top 300,000

BRUSSELS/GENEVA, March 23 (Xinhua) -- More than 300,000 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in 189 countries and regions, said World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebrey