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Paris Olympics 2024 to feature four new sports

Players compete in the sport climbing at the Asian Games in Palembang, Indonesia, August 26, 2018. /CFP Skateboarding, sport climbing, surfing and breaking have been confirmed as the additiona

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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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South African minister urges behavioral change in end-year festivities

File Photo: A waiter sanitizes a chair in a restaurant at the Montecasino complex in Johannesburg, July 3, 2020. /AFP South Africa's Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize has urged citizens to be mi

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Live updates: Global COVID-19 cases exceed 65 million

Confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide have exceeded 65 million, with over 1.5 million fatalities and more than 42 million recoveries, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University.Here is the lates

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As Crypto comes back, Binance-backed Injective Protocol launches Testnet for its DeFi trading platform

Decentralized exchange protocols that allow crypto traders and investors to trade across different blockсhains have been in development for a while. A significant new development now comes with the la

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U.S. hospitals treating over 100,000 COVID-19 patients

The number of COVID-19 patients in U.S. hospitals has surpassed 100,000 for the first time, nearly double the number from spring during the coronavirus's deadly first wave, according to theCOVID Trac

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We can't just sit around waiting for a vaccine: Zhong Nanshan

The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has started in some countries, and the situation will get worse in most of the northern hemisphere as the weather turns colder,

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Euro zone factory recovery faltered in Nov., vaccine drives optimism

Euro zone factory growth cooled last month as renewed coronavirus lockdown measures hurt demand, according to a survey which showed Germany remained the driving force behind the bloc's manufacturi

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Euro zone agrees to fine-tune bailout fund amid COVID worries

Euro zone finance ministers agreed on Monday to move ahead with the stalled changes to their European Stability Mechanism (ESM) bailout fund to strengthen the resilience of the common currency area a

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Monumental origami installations on display in Brussels

An origami art installation is on display in the Royal Galleries of Saint Hubert near the Grand Place in the city of Brussels. /VCG Named "Origami for Life," the initiative aims at rais

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COVID-19 leaves Serbian healthcare system on verge of collapse

The Balkans has quietly become the European epicenter of the second wave of COVID-19, with Serbia's healthcare system on the verge of collapse.Two new temporary hospita

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S. Korea braces for bed shortages as coronavirus cases at nine-month high

South Korea reported more than 500 new coronavirus cases for the second consecutive day on Friday, a level unseen in nearly nine months, as a third wave of infections s

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New coronavirus cases in S. Korea at nine-month high

People wait at a bus stop amid the coronavirus pandemic in Seoul, South Korea, November 26, 2020. /Reuters South Korea reported more than 500 new coronavirus cases for the second consecutive d

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China, South Korea agree to further ease pandemic-related travel restrictions

China and South Korea have agreed to further ease pandemic-related travel restrictions, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday after meet

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Chinese, S. Korean FMs meet in Seoul despite pandemic

01:38 Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met his South Korean counterpart Kang Kyung-wha for talks in Seoul on Thursday.CGTN correspondent Shane Hahm said the exact d

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Hungarian and Polish PMs to meet on Thursday to discuss EU budget veto

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki will meet Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban in Budapest on Thursday to discuss their veto of the European Union’s budget and r

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Brazil surpasses 6M COVID cases, hospitals overwhelmed

02:19 Brazil is seeing a worrying growth in COVID-19 cases and many experts believe the country may be entering a second wave of infection.The country topped six million total cases la