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Meta launches Twitter rival app Threads

Meta on Wednesday officially launched a new app called Threads which will be a direct rival of social network Twitter.Called Threads, the new offering is billed as a te

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Despite growing backlash, ads objectifying women are not fading

A billboard shows a woman wearing a diamond ring. /CFPLast week, a make-up remover commercial released by Chinese cotton products manufacturer PurCotton offended the bu

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Pope recalls visit to Lesbos refugee camp, urges solidarity

Pope Francis expressed solidarity Sunday with the thousands of migrants who were left homeless by fires that wrecked a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos and ca

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No grace period after Schrems II Privacy Shield ruling, warn EU data watchdogs

European data watchdogs have issued updated guidance in the wake of last week’s landmark ruling striking down a flagship transatlantic data transfer mechanism called Pr

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COVID-19 has "little impact" on Egypt-China bilateral trade: Chinese ambassador

The COVID-19 pandemic has little impact on Egyptian-Chinese bilateral trade and China remains Egypt's largest trade partner, Chinese Ambassador to Cairo Liao Liqiang t

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SEC loosens crowdfunding regs so small businesses can raise alternative financing in pandemic

Just like American workers are turning to crowdfunding to pay for the medical procedures that can keep them alive, the Securities and Exchange Commission is telling sma

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Across China: Online sightseeing trendy among would-be tourists amid epidemic

Opening an oil-paper umbrella to wander around the rainy ancient alleys and listening to traditional Chinese opera on the stage of a waterside pavilion, a nostalgic vi