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Chart of the Day: The Afghanistan exodus by the numbers

02:20 As the last U.S. military plane took off from Kabul's international airport on August 30, 20 years after a U.S.-led invasion of the country.A U.S. Central Command announced thecom

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Charts of the day: How has Iran been affected by U.S. sanctions?

Three years ago, on May 8, 2018, then U.S. President Donald Trump announced the U.S. was withdrawing from a landmark nuclear deal signed between Iran and a group of leading world powers.The deal, kno

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NASA's Perseverance ready to land on Mars

Images from the Perseverance Rover. /NASA NASA's Perseverance rover is expected to make a touch down on Mars surface on February 18, according to a countdown timer on the space program's websi

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Study finds close relatives to coronavirus in samples collected 2010

A scientist at Chulalongkorn University samples bats in a research laboratory in Thailand, September 12, 2020. /CFP Cambodian scientists have found "close relatives" of the pathogen, SARS-CoV-

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UK coronavirus variant may be dominant in U.S. by March: CDC

People queue to enter a tent erected to test people for the COVID-19 at the Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, New York City, U.S., March 27, 2020. /Reuters A new coronavirus variant first id

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Researchers find new, dominant coronavirus variants in the U.S.

People wait in a line around the block for a pop-up food pantry amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S., April 17, 2020. /Reuters Researchers have discovered a new variant o

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How has G20 contributed to global fight against COVID-19?

02:24 Twelve years ago, the Wall Street financial crisis dragged the world into a heavy economic recession. At the time, the G20, whose members account for over 85 percent of the globa

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Will Samsung's new foldable gadget open a new chapter for the market?

Gif from online video. Samsung unveiled its latest foldable phone Galaxy Z Fold 2 on Tuesday a year after the delay of the launch of its first generation four months due to technical flaws.Fea

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Business model weakens China's semiconductor sector: Expert

Products display at the World Semiconductor Conference that opens in Nanjing, east China, August 26, 2020. /CFP Too much dependence on a business model that separates chip design, manufacturin

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Analysis: what options are left for UK after ditching Chinese Huawei?

03:03 A week after announcing the ban on Chinese telecom vendor Huawei, the UK government is now seeking possible alternatives across the world to continue its 5G network development.T

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77 Nobel laureates denounce U.S. decision to end coronavirus grant

A screenshot of the open letter to the U.S. National Institutes for Health In a joint open letter to the U.S. National Institutes for Health (NIH) last Thursday, 77 American Nobel laureates in

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Chinese vaccines will be made global public good, says Xi

China will make its coronavirus vaccine a global public good once available, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday.In a speech to the 73rd session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) via vide

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U.S. doctor with 'flu' in Jan tests positive for COVID-19 antibody

A post from a U.S. pediatric emergency medicine physician revealing he tested positive for novel coronavirus antibodies has stirred up wide discussions on Twitter in the last two days.The positive

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AI tool predicts which coronavirus patients could get worse

Scientists in China and the U.S. have developed an experimental Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to help doctors predict which newly infected COVID-19 patients could go on to develop severe lung

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U.S. FDA approves N95 mask reuse tech amid COVID-19 supply shortage

Screenshot from Twitter The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Sunday authorized the sterilization of used N95 masks by an Ohio-based non-profit company in an attempt to tackle the sev

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Answer Bank: How long can the novel coronavirus survive on surfaces?

As the number of confirmed new coronavirus cases continues to grow outside China, concerns and questions about the virus have soared simultaneously.By now, a total of 122 countries and regions hav

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96 mln COVID-19 cases could happen in the U.S.: Leaked file

A total of 96 million people could be infected with the novel coronavirus, with 4.8 million hospitalized and 480,000 deceased, said the New York-headquartered U.S. business site Business Insider c