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U.S. tells WTO 'no valid basis' for EU tariffs in Boeing-Airbus fight

FILE PHOTO: The Boeing logo is displayed on a screen, at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., August 7, 2019. /Reuters The United States told the World Trade Organization on W

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Demon behind the failed U.S. COVID-19 response

President Donald Trump participates in a tour of a Honeywell International plant that manufactures PPE on May 5, 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona./AP Editor's Note: The following article is taken from

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Coronavirus health fears outweigh economic concerns: global survey

Tourists go shopping on the Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street, Shanghai, China, May 4, 2020. /VCG A global survey has found that a substantial majority of people around the world want their gover

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U.S. Treasury blasts records with $3 trillion borrowing need in Q2

An empty street in New York, U.S. /VCG The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday said it plans to borrow nearly three trillion U.S. dollars in the second quarter of 2020 – more than five times la

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Costco limits meat purchases as supply shortages loom under COVID-19

A staffer uses a loudspeaker to remind customers to wear masks and maintain social distance at a Costco supermarket in San Mateo County, San Francisco Bay Area, United States, April 22, 2020. /VC

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Trump says he believes there will be a coronavirus vaccine ‘by the end of the year’

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he was confident that there will be a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year, a timeline that’s even speedier than the op

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Germany to make 'significant' contribution to global virus fund

Angela Merkel's government are moving cautiously into a post-lockdown phase. AP Germany is aiming to maintain the widely held view that it has handled the coronavirus outbreak well during the

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Fake news and the DPRK, a never ending cycle

Kim Jong Un, the top leader of the DPRK attends the ceremony marking the completion of Sunchon Phosphatic Fertilizer Factory in Sunchon, DPRK, May 1, 2020. /KCNA Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a B

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China firmly opposes U.S. support for Taiwan's participation in UN

The U.S. UN mission has gravely interfered with China's internal affairs by openly supporting Taiwan's participation in the United Nations, said a spokesperson of the

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New trade appeals body gets around U.S. block on WTO

Some of the world's major trading nations have agreed on a way to circumvent U.S. obstruction of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the body responsible for resolving international trade disputes.Th

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Australian PM says no evidence coronavirus originated in China lab

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he has no evidence to suggest the coronavirus originated in a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. "What we have befor

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Answer Bank: Precautions when using disinfectants

Disinfectants are widely used on the fight against the novel coronavirus, there are some precautions that need to be taken when using disinfectant, according to the Chinese Center for Disease Cont

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What caused the COVID-19 testing deficit?

Editor's note: Sachin Silva, a doctoral candidate and fellow at Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is a member of the G20 task force on social cohesion and the state. Juergen

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LabCorp slapped with shareholder suit over data breaches

A LabCorp shareholder has filed a lawsuit against the laboratory giant, accusing its board of concealing details of two data breaches that affected millions of patients.The derivative suit, filed on

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Zoom retracts statement that it has 300M daily active users

Zoom is not having a good month. As it scales to meet pandemic demand, it has been beset by security issues, which it has had to explain and fix. Today, The Verge reported that the company just change

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Scientists unfold mystery of where 99% of ocean microplastics go

Scientists found bottom currents sweep microplastics into concentrated hotspots on the seabed.

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China's COVID-19 data matches Benford's Law like U.S. and Italy: Study

VCG The hashtag #ChinaLiedPeopleDied has been around Twitter for quite a while. Its army of believers accuses China for hiding the true number of COVID-19 patients and deaths.One common charac