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Germany faces Afghan refugee conundrum ahead of September elections

03:03 In Germany, thousands of miles from Kabul, resettled Afghan families cannot fathom what's happened to their homeland."We fought for everything, for all of these laws and policies,

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Reporter's Diary: Kandahar's fall to Taliban

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OnlyFans’ porn ban is crypto’s opportunity of a lifetime

Today, OnlyFans dropped the massive bombshell that it will be banning “sexually explicit content” from the app later this year. This is obviously a wildly seismic shift for OnlyFans, which completely

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Why is Embiid signing a huge contract extension with the 76ers now?

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China urges Japan to rethink 'security talks' with Taiwan's DPP

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying on Thursday urged Japan to stop interfering in China's internal affairs and rethink plans for "security talks" betwee

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Facebook finally made a good virtual reality app

Facebook’s journey toward making virtual reality a thing has been long and circuitous, but despite mixed success in finding a wide audience for VR, they have managed to build some very nice hard

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MOFA: U.S.'s 90-day 'COVID-19 origins probe' only to smear China

The U.S., which is expediting a report on the coronavirus origins in 90 days under the order of President Joe Biden, does not care about the facts or truth, but only ho

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MOFA: U.S.'s 90-day 'COVID-19 origins probe' only to smear China

The U.S., which is expediting a report on the coronavirus origins in 90 days under the order of President Joe Biden, does not care about the facts or truth, but only ho

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B2B sales platform Accord adds $1M to seed round

Accord opened up its previously announced $6 million seed round to accept over $1 million from a group of CEOs and sales leads at companies they are working with to officially launch its business-to-b

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Graphics: Virus evolves, U.S. devolves

After months of drop in COVID-19 cases, the pace has risen again in the U.S. since the beginning of July. On August 16, the country's health authority reported 113,993 new confirmed cases. Evoluti

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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin goes toe to toe with NASA in federal court over award to SpaceX

Blue Origin, the space company helmed by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is taking NASA to court. The company filed a complaint with a federal claims court on Monday over the agency’s decision to award a luna

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McConnell slams Biden's 'botched exit' from Afghanistan

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) slammed President Biden's "botched exit" from Afghanistan on Sunday after the Taliban entered the capital city of Kabul,

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APD | Indian experts slam US behind Afghanistan crisis following Taliban takeover

By APD writer Shristi KafleIndian intellectuals, experts and journalists have termed the US as a complete 'failure' and reason behind creating a latest political mess i

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Pyka shows off its new electric passenger plane, the P3

Pyka appeared out of nowhere in 2019 with an unusual take on electric aircraft: a pilotless crop duster. The success of this first plane led the company to begin developing its next one, the P3: a 9-p

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Taliban denies killing civilians, calls for independent inquiry

The Taliban on Wednesday denied targeting and killing civilians during an offensive against Afghan government troops, calling for an independent investigation and seeki

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Watch Samsung introduce its latest foldables live

Samsung is set to introduce a whole bunch of new products, starting today at 7 AM PT/10 AM ET. I wrote a whole bunch of words about what to expect from the company’s latest Unpacked event. It’s a long

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China condemns Canada's remark on Schellenberg sentencing

The Chinese Embassy in Canada on Tuesday expressed stern condemnation after Canada's foreign minister criticized the sentencing of Canadian drug smuggler Robert Schellenberg in a Chinese court.The em