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South Africa starts easing coronavirus lockdown

South Africa began to gradually ease its strict coronavirus lockdown on Friday, allowing some industries to reopen after five weeks of restrictions that plunged its str

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OpenAI’s new experiments in music generation create an uncanny valley Elvis

AI-generated music is a fascinating new field, and deep-pocketed research outfit OpenAI has hit new heights in it, creating recreations of songs in the style of Elvis, 2Pac, and others. The results a

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Wild animals reclaim lost domain in Pakistan's Margalla hills amid COVID-19 lockdown

Photo taken on April 5, 2020 shows a blue-throated barbet eating food on Margalla hills in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan. (Photo by Pharahnaz Naveed/Xinhua)Most of the mammals and birds are rarely vi

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Chinese clubs and players mourn the passing of Radomir Antic

Radomir Antic with Shandong Luneng in Nanjing, China, October 19, 2013. /VCG Shandong Luneng and Hebei China Fortune, the two Chinese top-flight clubs which Radomir Antic coached toward the en

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Detroit to be first to deploy Abbott Lab’s 5 minute Covid-19 test, mayor says

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said today on Wolf Blitzer’s CNN show that the city of Detroit is on track to be the first city to deploy Abbott Lab’s 5 minute Covid-19 test. The mayor said that the test wo

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Graphic: number of high-profile officials infected with COVID-19 grows

The novel coronavirus has begun to infect political leaders worldwide, and an increasing number of politicians have gone into isolation. There are several reasons: They are themselves infected, ca

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COVID-19 in Europe: Daily bulletin, 14 March

TOP HEADLINES- The UK will ban mass gatherings across the country from next week.- Denmark closes its borders to all except Danish nationals until 13 April- Spain enters a 15-day state of emergency-

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Australian home affairs minister tests positive for COVID-19

Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has tested positive for COVID-19, and the result was confirmed on Friday afternoon. On his official twitter, Dutton wrote "this morning I woke up with a

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Italy under quarantine must learn from China

Teatro alla Scala opera house in Milan, Italy, February 28, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Alex Chan is a doctoral researcher in diplomacy at Peking University. He graduated in China studies fro

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China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 15th lunar day

The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 15th lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extremely cold night.The la

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The significance of Italian Democratic Party's win in regional poll

The election in Emilia-Romagna could have led to a significant change in decades-old political sentiment in the region (Credit: CGTN) The coverage of regional polls anywhere in the world by an

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Spain calls for emergency meeting as storm death toll rises to 13

Storm Gloria left behind a trail of destruction and misery, leaving at least 13 people dead in Spain. (Credit: AFP) The Spanish government is due to hold an emergency meeting on Friday after a

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Sea foam covers holiday resort as storm lashes parts of Spain

00:27 Residents of the Spanish holiday resort of Tossa de Mar woke up to ocean foam covering parts of the town after Storm Gloria lashed a number of provinces in the country.Floodwater

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Federer, Nadal kick in AU$250,000 for Australian bushfire relief

Tennis stars have come together for the Rally for Relief to raise money in aid of the bushfire relief efforts across Australia, at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, January 15, 2020. /AP Photo Ten

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Beijing embraces first snowfall of 2020

People in Beijing woke up Monday to find the city had been covered in a blanket of white snow, marking the first snowfall of 2020. The snow started at about 5 p.m. Sun

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Paradise lost: residents flee Eden as Australia fires race towards them

Shelley Caban just wants it to be over.“Sometimes I think, ‘Fuck it, just burn it all, the house and everything,’” she says. “It’s the waiting and the limbo, you just f

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China-U.S. reconciliation is the perfect New Year gift

Editor's note: Tom Fowdy graduated from Oxford University's China Studies Program and majored in politics at Durham University. He writes about international relations focusing on China and the De