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Tokyo 2020 CEO: Tokyo 'unwavering' on Games but fans not guaranteed

Olympic rings float in the waters off Odaiba island in Tokyo, Japan, January 17, 2020. /CFP Tokyo Olympics' organizers are "unwavering" on the prospect of holding the coronavirus-delayed Games

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'Shameful': U.S. virus deaths top 400,000 as Trump leaves office

A nurse cleans up a room as a body of a COVID-19 victim lies in a body bag labeled with stickers at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles, California, U

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Trump clemency list expected to include Lil Wayne and a once powerful New York politician

President Donald Trump's final clemency list, though not as long as originally expected, could include some names that will cause another wave of controversy as his tim

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Netflix’s ‘Shuffle Play’ feature will roll out to all users worldwide this year

Netflix is always in search of a better way to instantly connect users to something to watch, instead of having them waste time unsuccessfully scrolling through all the available programming options.

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Drone-focused construction startup TraceAir raises $3.5M

Bay Area-based construction startup TraceAir today announced a $3.5 million Series A. Led by London-based XTX Ventures, this round brings the company’s total funding up to $7 million. The raise includ

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Podchaser raises $4M to build a comprehensive podcast database

Podchaser, a startup building what it calls “IMDB for podcasts,” recently announced that it has raised $4 million in a funding round led by Greycroft.In other words, it’s a site wher

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Resurgence in COVID-19 cases slows oil demand rebound: IEA

IEA lowered its forecast for global oil demand in the first quarter of 2021. /CFP Oil demand recovery will take a hit from a spike in new coronavirus cases before vaccine roll-outs and stimulu

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What are the biggest threats to the planet in the next 10 years?

00:55 In 2006, a report by the World Economic Forum (WEF) predicted that a lethal global flu pandemic was one of the biggest threats to humanity in the years ahead.Last year, what the

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More than 100,000 people vaccinated in Belgium: health authorities

FILE PHOTO: A nurse prepares a COVID-19 vaccine for a patient in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Brussels, Belgium. /VCG Image Belgium's Scientific Institute of Public Health Sciensano (Sciensano) report

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UK’s WhiteHat rebrands as Multiverse, raises $44M to build tech apprenticeships in the US

University education is getting more expensive, and at the moment it feels a bit like a petrie dish for infections, but the long-term trends continue to show a dramatic growth in the number of people

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India asks WhatsApp to withdraw new privacy policy, expresses ‘grave concerns’

India has asked WhatsApp to withdraw the planned change to its privacy policy, posing a new headache to Facebook-owned service that identifies the South Asian nation as its biggest market by users.In

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'A Little Red Flower' still blossoms, new crime film 'The Soul' shines

Chinese family drama "A Little Red Flower" continues to dominate China's box office, raking in more than 146.4 million yuan ($22.6 million) in the past week (January 11

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​Top 10 foreign films in China 2020

By the end of 2019, Hollywood had much to be excited about, capping the year with a cinematic triumph that demonstrated the potential of the Chinese market: Disney and Marvel Studios' Avengers: En

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China calls for international cooperation on lunar soil samples

01:39 China National Space Administration (CNSA) unveiled regulations on lunar soil use and research on Monday, encouraging international cooperation on researches of s

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China's shipbuilding industry keeps world-leading role in 2020

A shipbuilding enterprise wharf is seen in Taicang Port, east China's Jiangsu Province, December 9, 2020. /VCG China's shipbuilding industry saw increased output in 2020 while maintaining a wo

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RMB clearing bank launched in the Philippines

A RMB clearing bank in the Philippines was launched in a ceremony held in capital city Manila on Saturday.Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Philippi

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Live updates: Global COVID-19 deaths pass 2 million mark

Confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide have topped 94 million, with over 2 million deaths and more than 51 million recoveries, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University.Here is the lates