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Tornado hits downtown Nashville, at least 8 die in Tennessee

Tornadoes ripped across Tennessee early Tuesday, shredding at least 40 buildings and killing at least eight people. One of the twisters caused severe damage in downtown

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Vestas appreciates China's support for work resumption

01:33 Vestas, one of the world's largest wind turbines manufacturers, appreciates local government's efforts in helping companies resume work and production, according to Vestas China

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Sweet 16 as Djokovic reaches Dubai semis

Novak Djokovic of Serbia in action against Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany during men's singles match on day 10 of the Dubai Tennis Championships, Dubai, the UAE, February 26, 2020. /VCG Nova

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Can Fidel Castro sink Bernie Sanders?

Editor's note: Chris Hawke is a graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and a journalist who has reported for over two decades from Beijing, New York, the United Nations, Tokyo, Ban

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East Africa's huge locust outbreak has spread to Congo

A small group of desert locusts has entered Congo, marking the first time the voracious insects have been seen in the Central African country since 1944, the UN Food and Agriculture Agency said Tuesd

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NASA unveils InSight lander's findings on Mars

NASA has published a set of six papers this week describing its InSight lander's findings above and below the surface of Mars. These findings reveal a planet alive with quakes, dust devils and stran

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Unfavorable weather forecast in virus-hit Hubei

Central China's Hubei Province said unfavorable weather has been forecast in the coming days, which might have a negative effect on the fight against the novel coronav

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Boom says its supersonic XB-1 aircraft test program will be “fully carbon neutral”

Commercial aviation isn’t typically the place to look if you’re after carbon-light initiatives. Jet fuel isn’t generally very green, and airplanes burn a lot of it when traversing th

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Opportunity blows for offshore wind in China

Chongming Island in east China's Shanghai city. /VCG U.S. and Chinese researchers have found that China's offshore wind could significantly increase its wind capacity.The study, published Frid

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DSP Concepts raises $14.5M for its Audio Weaver platform

DSP Concepts — a startup whose Audio Weaver software is used by companies as varied as Tesla, Porsche, GoPro and Braun Audio — is announcing that it has raised $14.5 million in Series B funding.The st

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Answer Bank: Can novel coronavirus spread by aerosol transmission?

Aerosol transmission refers to the situation when the respiratory droplets lose water in the air, and the leftover proteins and pathogens form nuclei or dust floats far away in the form of aerosol

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Roundup: U.S. blacklists Russian entity to further pressure Maduro government

U.S. government announced on Tuesday that it had imposed sanctions against a subsidiary of Russian oil producer Rosneft and the subsidiary's president due to their alleged support for Venezuela in

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APD | Chinese carmaker to buy GM plants in Thailand, India

By APD writer AliceGreat Wall Motors (GWM) of China will take over General Motor's (GM) manufacturing facilities in Thailand and India by the end of this year, as the U

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APD | Chinese carmaker to buy GM plants in Thailand, India

By APD writer AliceGreat Wall Motors (GWM) of China will take over General Motor's (GM) manufacturing facilities in Thailand and India by the end of this year, as the US automaker prepares to with

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APD | 14 killed, hundreds affected as toxic gas leaked in Pakistan’s Karachi

By APD writer Muhammad SohailISLAMABAD, Feb. 19 (APD) At least 14 people were killed and over 400 hundred others got affected after toxic gas leakage in Pakistan’s sout

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Alphabet takes the wind out of its Makani energy kites

Google today announced that it is calling it quits on its efforts to build and monetize its Makani wind energy kites. Makani, which was founded in 2006, came into Google/Alphabet seven years ago as a

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GM shuts Australia, NZ operations; sells Thai plant to Great Wall

General Motors Co said it would wind down its Australian and New Zealand operations and sell a Thai plant in the latest restructuring of its global business, costing the U.S. automaker 1.1 billion