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From Water Cube to Ice Cube: Curling sheets completed for Beijing 2022

An outside view of the Water Cube in Beijing, China, August 7, 2018. /CFP Ice Cube, in both Chinese and English, appear on the entrance of the National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China

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Dance drama 'Li Bai' performed at NCPA

A still from the dance drama Li Bai. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The dance drama Li Bai was staged from Dec. 17 to 20 at the Opera House of the National Center for the Performing Arts

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Hong Kong police capture fugitive COVID-19 patient

Hong Kong police said they capturedon Sunday night a COVID-19 positive patient who had escaped two days earlier from one of the city's hospitals while undergoing treatm

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HKSAR govt to inject $825.53 mln to bail out pandemic-hit industries

A man wearing a face mask walks past Christmas decorations in a restaurant window in Hong Kong, China, December 11, 2020. /APThe Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

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Africa COVID-19: Confirmed infections top 2.42 million

A pupil wearing a face mask has her body temperature checked at a school in Kampala, capital of Uganda, on Dec. 14, 2020. /Xinhua The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the African continen

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Humiliating mistaken police raid has woman handcuffed naked

Just released police body camera footage in Chicago has revealed a botched raid on a woman's apartment in February 2019.Anjanette Young was home and in the middle of changing clothes when police b

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Chinese companies raise more money than ever in 2020: Bloomberg

Chinese companies raised more money in initial public offerings (IPO) both at home and overseas than ever this year, thanks to the country's early emergence from the pandemic.Chinese mainland firm

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U.S. vaccinations ramp up as 2nd COVID-19 shot nears

Robert Luckey, a COVID-19 ICU nurse, receives the hospital's first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 at Memorial Hermann Hospital, Texas, U.S., December 15, 2020. /AP Hundreds m

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Pandemic hits dry-cleaning industry hard

03:35 Thepandemichas crippled thedry-cleaning business in the United States.Fewer people are wearing formal clothing to an office.So, the need for pressed clothes has declined, in most

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Rwanda reaches critical stage with spike in new cases: COVID-19

A man measures the temperature for a secondary school student preparing to board a bus in Kigali, Rwanda, on Oct. 31, 2020. /Xinhua Rwandan Minister of Health Daniel Ngamije on Sunday warned t

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UK drops self-isolation for passengers from Botswana, Saudi Arabia

A traveller arrives at London's Heathrow Airport wearing a face mask. /Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP Botswana and Saudi Arabia were on Friday added to the U.K. government's travel corridor list after

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U.S. COVID facility may double by April despite mass vaccination

Masked pedestrians walk past of a COVID 19-themed mural depicting Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., December 9, 2020. /AP The fatality caused by COVID-19 in the

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Romanian PM Ludovic Orban resigns after election setback

Romania's Prime Minister Orban (C) alongside other PNL officials. /Andreea Alexandru/AP Romanian Prime Minister Ludovic Orban has resigned following a setback from Sunday's elections, the AFP

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Ghana to block voters without face masks at polling centers

Voters register before casting their ballots in Accra, capital of Ghana, on Dec. 1, 2020. Ghana opened a special voting on Tuesday to enable personnel who would not be able to cast their ballots

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Families reunite safely in 'hug tent' amid COVID-19 pandemic

A woman is pictured hugging her 93-year-old father through the plastic wall in the "hug tent" outside the Accel at Longmont skilled nursing facility in Longmont, Colorado, the U.S., December,

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Revel pulls electric mopeds after failing to make a dent in Austin’s car culture

Shared electric moped startup Revel said Friday that it will shut down its service in Austin later this month.The startup’s CEO and co-founder Frank Reig didn’t place the entire blame on

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Kenya reports 711 new COVID-19 cases, total tally jumps to 83,316

VCG Image The number of COVID-19 infections in Kenya rose to 83,316 on Sunday as the health ministry reported 711 new cases confirmed in the past 24 hours.The East African country's caseload h