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People guilty of racist abuse of footballers online will be banned from matches, PM says

The PM says he is "taking practical steps to ensure that the football banning order regime is changed", but he is taken to task by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer over the government's previous equivocation over whether fans should jeer England players for taking the knee.

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The Art of the Party: Revolutionary Ideals Higher than Heaven

01:31 This oil painting, “Revolutionary Ideals Higher than Heaven,” was completed by Chinese painter Shen Yaoyi in 1976.The painting shows Mao Zedong giving a rousing s

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Afghanistan: Continuation of deadly war or revival of Greater Central Asia?

Editor's note: Djoomart Otorbaev is the former Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, a distinguished professor of the Belt and Road School of Beijing Normal University

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Afghanistan: Continuation of deadly war or revival of Greater Central Asia?

Editor's note: Djoomart Otorbaev is the former Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, a distinguished professor of the Belt and Road School of Beijing Normal University

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The TechCrunch List is dead. Long live commodity capital

It’s been almost exactly a year since we launched The TechCrunch List, a curated directory of venture capitalists designed to guide founders to the VCs most relevant to their startups. We had nearly 4

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Why is it so difficult to stop abuse on social media?

The hurt for most England fans wasn't the performance of the best of us on the pitch, but the behaviour of the worst of us off it.

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Virgin Galactic and Richard Branson celebrate launch of first passengers into space

Virgin Galactic has successfully taken its first passengers to space, including its billionaire founder Richard Branson. The event, at Spaceport America in New Mexico, was a field day for press and em

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Euro 2020: Italy crowned champions after shootout win over England

Italy claimed the European Championship for the first time since 1968 as penalties came back to haunt England at Wembley Stadium on Sunday, Gianluigi Donnarumma saving

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Euro 2020: Italy crowned champions after shootout win over England

Italy claimed the European Championship for the first time since 1968 as penalties came back to haunt England at Wembley Stadium on Sunday, Gianluigi Donnarumma saving

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Virgin Galactic and Richard Branson celebrate launch of first passengers into space

Virgin Galactic has successfully taken its first passengers to space, including its billionaire founder Richard Branson. The event, at Spaceport America in New Mexico, was a field day for press and em

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Startups have never had it so good

The venture capital market is racing ahead, foot on the gas, middle finger out the window, hair on fire. That’s our read of the Q2 2021 data released thus far concerning how much money venture capital

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Pressed for Time, Pentagon Looking for Installations to Transfer Afghan Interpreters

The US Department of Defense is mulling locations where it could send Afghan interpreters and other allies, as Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters Thursday "se

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Cryptocurrency company Circle to go public in SPAC deal

Circle has announced that it plans to become a public company. The cryptocurrency company will merge with Concord Acquisition Corp, a SPAC. Circle is better known as one of the founding members of the

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WellSaid attracts $10M A round for higher quality synthetic speech

WellSaid Labs, whose tools create synthetic speech that could be mistaken for the real thing, has raised a $10M Series A to grow the business. The company’s home-baked

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We want your city in TechCrunch’s European Cities Survey 2021!

Do you want your city to get its own TechCrunch Survey? They join in! So if you are a tech startup founder or investor in one of these cities please fill out our survey form here Check the list of Eur

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China urges Japan to stop wrong words, deeds over Taiwan region

China urged Japan to reflect on history and correct its mistakes immediately over the Taiwan issue, said a Chinese mainland spokesperson on Tuesday.Japan's Deputy Prime

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BRI would be the best thing to happen to post-withdrawal Afghanistan

A deserted Bagram airfield after the departure of all U.S. and NATO forces from Parwan province, eastern Afghanistan. /Xinhua Editor's note:Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American political