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Trump still fighting election results joining Texas lawsuit

01:18 Donald Trump and his Republican supporters have lost multiple challenges to the outcome of the November presidential election with Joe Biden.But the current president has taken t

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Uber wants drivers and delivery workers to get priority access to COVID-19 vaccine

Given how reliant many people have become on rideshare drivers and especially delivery workers during the pandemic, Uber is pushing for them to get priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine. Today, Ube

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Kenya eyes AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine instead of Pfizer or Moderna

Kenya may opt for the Oxford-AstraZeneca Plc COVID-19 vaccine./Getty Images Kenya may opt for the Oxford-AstraZeneca Plc COVID-19 vaccine because it doesn't require complex cold storage, unlik

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SpaceX prototype launches...then crashes in flames

The Starship rocket is being developed by Elon Musk's company to carry humans and cargo to the moon and Mars.

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Seoul-based payment tech startup CHAI gets $60 million from Hanhwa, SoftBank Ventures Asia

Demand for contactless payments and e-commerce has grown in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is good news for payment service operators, but the market is very fragmented, so adding paym

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Brazil to offer COVID-19 vaccine free to all, says president

Brazil's Sao Paulo state governor Joao Doria holds a box of China's CoronaVac vaccine near a refrigerated container as it arrived at Sao Paulo International Airport in Guarulhos, Brazil, November

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Why did world leaders fail to meet 2010 biodiversity targets?

07:27 Earlier this year, a report revealed that not a single one of the 20 Aichi Biodiversity targets set in 2010 had been met in their entirety."No country wants to return to the situ

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Trump signs a bill to criminalize international doping conspiracies

CFP The U.S. President Donald Trump signed a bill on Friday to allow U.S. prosecutors to go after doping schemes in international sports events that involve Americans - athletes, sponsors or b

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Brexit talks resume as diplomats see solution on fish in sight

Brexit negotiations resumed in Brussels with signs that one of the biggest obstacles to a deal is being resolved. /Getty Images Brexit negotiations resumed in Brussels with signs that one of t

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Stripe announces embedded business banking service Stripe Treasury

Fintech startup Stripe has announced an ambitious new product today called Stripe Treasury. The company is partnering with banks to offer a banking-as-a-service API. In other words, Stripe clients wi

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Afghans embrace Chinese condemnation of atrocities, demand justice

01:31 An editorial in the Afghanistan Times newspaper welcomes China's condemnation of Afghan civilians' killings by Australian soldiers. General: Australian troops suspected of 39 unl

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3D animation adapted from sci-fi hit airs on Tencent

Produced by the Hangzhou-based Sparkly Key Animation Studio, the animated work tells a story about how the protagonist Luo Feng who wants to be a great martial artist, overcomes difficulties and dange

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Facebook-backed cryptocurrency changes name in an effort to seek approval

It wants to set itself apart from other cryptocurrencies by focusing on things that concerned western governments and regulators.

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UK holds firm on fish in Brexit talks with EU

Britain dug in its heels over fishing in Brexit negotiations with the European Union, demanding an end to what its environment minister cast as an unfair system of EU f

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WeGift, the ‘incentive marketing’ platform, collects $8M in new funding

WeGift, the London-based startup that has built an “incentive marketing” platform that lets businesses easily issue e-gift cards and other digital rewards to customers, has raised $8 milli

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No one but Canada wants to be part of the U.S. dirty scheme

00:54 When asked whether he regretted that Canadian border authorities arrested Meng Wanzhou at a QA session of the APEC CEO Dialogues on November 19, Canadian Prime Mi

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Malaysia-based inventory management platform Food Market Hub raises $4 million from Go-Ventures, SIG

Food Market Hub co-founders Anthony See and Shayna TehMany restaurants still rely on spreadsheets to track their inventory of produce, meat and other ingredients. But using manual methods often result