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EU tourism halved in 2020 amid pandemic: Eurostat

A woman takes photos near the Eiffel Tower at the Trocadero Palace, Paris, France, May 15, 2020. (Xinhua/Gao Jing) The European tourism industry was hit dramatically by the COVID-19 pandemic i

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The owner of Anki’s assets plans to relaunch Cozmo and Vector this year

Good robots don’t die — they just have their assets sold off to the highest bidder. Digital Dream Labs was there to sweep up IP in the wake of Anki’s premature implosio

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Africa's COVID-19 infections top 3.74 mln: Africa CDC

A total of 3,742,518 coronavirus infections have been reported on the African continent as of Sunday, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. /Africa CDC A tot

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Is overseeing cloud operations the new career path to CEO?

When Amazon announced last week that founder and CEO Jeff Bezos planned to step back from overseeing operations and shift into an executive chairman role, it also revealed that AWS CEO Andy Jassy, hea

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Hong Kong startup ICW eyes supply chain diversification demand amid trade war

For American importers, finding suppliers these days can be challenging not only due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. The U.S. government’s entity list designations, human rights-related sanctio

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UK study shows azithromycin, doxycycline ineffective in early COVID-19

A new study finds the widely-used antibiotics azithromycin and doxycycline were generally ineffective against early-stage COVID-19. /CFP A British study found the widely-used antibiotics azith

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Kenya mulls options to ease rising food cost, shield farmers

World food prices climbed for the fifth consecutive month in October, nearly returning to levels from the start of the year, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported Thursd

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Blobr, the ‘no-code’ company turning APIs into products, raises €1.2M pre-seed

Blobr, a Paris-based startup operating in the no-code space with tech to make it easier for companies to expose and monetise their existing APIs, has raised €1.2 million in pre-seed funding.The round

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Cloudflare introduces free digital waiting rooms for any organizations distributing COVID-19 vaccines

Web infrastructure company Cloudflare is releasing a new tool today that aims to provide a way for health agencies and organizations globally tasked with rolling out COVID-19 vaccines to maintain a fa

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World's oceans continue to warm, despite reduced carbon emissions

Despite reductions in global carbon emissions due to the COVID-19 lockdown, the world's oceans in 2020 were the warmest in recorded history, according to a new study.Published in the journal Advances

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Kenya's President Kenyatta extends curfew: COVID-19

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Sunday extended the night curfew for three months as part of measures to help contain the spread of COVID-19. /Presidential Service Communication Unit Kenyan

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Bristol dinosaur's brain rebuilt using digital technology

Thecodontosaurus lived in the late Triassic age around 205 million years ago and was the size of a large dog.

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UK hydrogen car maker unveils first production car

01:29 The UK has unveiled plans to ban the production of new petrol and diesel cars beyond 2030 and challenged manufacturers to come up with new ways of fueling their vehicles.Just day

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Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine shows high efficacy, and is cheaper to make and easier to store

Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine, being developed in partnership with drugmaker AstraZeneca, has shown to be 70.4% effective in preliminary results from its Phase 3 clinical trial. That rat

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The Global South's pandemic path to self-reliance

Editor's note: Syed Munir Khasru is Chairman of the Institute for Policy, Advocacy, and Governance (IPAG). The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.COVID-1

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Moderna reports its COVID-19 vaccine is 94.5% effective in first data from Phase 3 trial

Following fast on the heels of Pfizer’s announcement of its COVID-19 vaccine efficacy, Moderna is also sharing positive results from its Phase 3 trial on Monday. The biotech company says that it

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Watch SpaceX launch its historic first NASA astronaut crew mission live

SpaceX and NASA have spent years working towards today’s Crew-1 mission, which is set to launch from Florida at 7:27 PM EST (4:27 PM PST). This is the first time that SpaceX’s Dragon capsu