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The litmus test now awaits Biden's climate action plan

Editor's note: Stephen Ndegwa is a Nairobi-based communication expert, lecturer-scholar at the United States International University-Africa, author and international affairs columnist. The articl

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Pivoting to home fitness, Aviron offers gamified rowing machines

Few tech sectors had more to gain from the events of 2020 than home fitness. Interest in the category was swift, as gyms were declared one of the bigger problem areas amid the worldwide spread of Covi

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GM pledges to be carbon neutral by 2040 with zero tailpipe emission vehicles by 2035

General Motors pledged to be carbon neutral by 2040 — removing emissions from all of its products and global operations or offsetting those emissions through carbon credits or carbon capture wit

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Chinese internet firms keen to develop mobile payment business

A sign informing customers of a choice between Alipay and WeChat Pay at a checkout counter in a supermarket in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, January 6, 2021. /CFP Many Chinese inte

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Location broker X-Mode continues to track users despite app store bans

Hundreds of Android apps, far more than previously disclosed, have sent granular user location data to X-Mode, a data broker known to sell location data to U.S. military contractors.The apps include m

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Google updates Play Store policies on gamified loyalty programs following confusion in India

Google has updated and broadened its Play Store policy on gaming loyalty programs to help developers better understand the practices that are permitted, months after confusion about the guidance promp

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UN poll finds no appetite for plant-based diets to fix climate change

Legumes are a nutritious staple around the world. /CFP The world's biggest ever survey on climate change shows that people are thinking green, just not when it comes to their dinner plates.The

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Americas COVID-19 death toll hits 1 million, hospitals brimming: PAHO

A patient is moved from an ambulance into the COVID-19 treatment center at Dr. Carlos MacGregor Sanchez General Hospital in Mexico City, Mexico, January 10, 2021. /AP Over one million people h

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Arriving in the UK? Please wait in a hotel... and pick up the check

Arrivals in the UK from certain countries will be asked to pay to quarantine. /Getty The UK has announced a mandatory quarantine period for some international travelers.It will mainly affect

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How China has become the world's leading destination for FDI

Workers assemble cars at a workshop of FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Co., Ltd. in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, April 14, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Matteo Giovannini is a financ

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Davos Summit: Can the world achieve a green recovery?

01:39 The Davos Summit takes place this year against the backdrop of a crisis that has ruined livelihoods and widened inequalities globally. The environment has been a key focus, from

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Lockdown job offer: $500 to rate Netflix shows and pizza

Biting into a pizza while watching a movie. /CFP Call it a dream job – or just another night indoors.A U.S. casino review site is looking to hire someone to watch Netflix, eat pizza and then e

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#MeTooIncest: A book, a scandal, a movement

Getty "My father began sexually abusing me when I was at the age of 2 …#MeTooIncest," wrote a woman from the U.S. on Twitter."I remember myself banging on the closed door whilst my sister was

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Coronavirus pandemic to cause 'exponential' growth in heart disease

Studies have found that 55% of adult patients with COVID-19 had abnormal changes to the way their hearts were pumping.

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#ProtectTheFacts to combat distortion of the Holocaust

People look at a light installation called #everynamecounts projecting names of victims of the Nazi regime on the facade of the French embassy ahead the Holocaust Memorial Day in Berlin, Germany,

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China says multilateralism key to solving global challenges

China on Tuesday highlighted multilateralism as the solution to global challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic and deepeconomic recession, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said when

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Gavi hopes to deliver 150 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines soon: CEO

Cropped photo of a hand wearing a nitrile glove holding a COVID-19 vaccine vial and a syringe. (Getty Images) The CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, on Tuesday said that they hope to deliver 1