European Union leaders, including Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen hosted a virtual summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday and sealed a comprehensive EU-China investment treaty. Described as the most “ambitious agreement that China has ever concluded with a third country,” the agreement serves to …
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Kentucky was fortunate to have a white Christmas, with parts of the state receiving as much as nine inches of snow by the early hours of December 25. The wintery weather undoubtedly added to the festive mood of the holiday, but it also required residents to get out their snow …
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On Tuesday, Japan and South Korea were alarmed by a joint Russia-China bomber patrol which came close to their airspace, described as “a show of increasingly close military ties between Moscow and Beijing.” The jets flew down the Korean Eastern Sea (Sea of Japan) before heading south towards the East …
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The group of scientists, led by Dr. Joseph Fisher at the University Health Network, a medical research organization in Toronto, Canada, were exploring treatments for acute alcohol intoxication when they happened upon a novel solution that generated more than a few sighs of disbelief at how simple it was. “It’s …
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Apparently disregarding Facebook’s public-facing image as a fierce opponent of election meddling by entities not legitimately involved in the political process, Zuckerberg dived into the fray during a Thursday company-wide town hall, according to an audio of the meeting first obtained by Buzzfeed and later confirmed by CNBC. “I believe …
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Slowly, evidence begins to emerge. Today, it’s the turn of OFSTED, the body responsible for inspecting the UK’s educational establishments, to appear in the witness stand. Its newly released report, based on 900 visits to schools and nurseries, details the extent to which children fell behind with their learning and …
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Speaking from his native Delaware on Friday night, Biden boasted about wiping out President Donald Trump’s initial advantage in several key battleground states over the last 24 hours. “Just look at what has happened since yesterday. Twenty-four hours, we were behind in Georgia, now we’re ahead and we’re going to …
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Both Biden and Trump are racing to claw together enough electoral votes to declare victory, but pauses in ballot counting, razor-thin margins, and legal complaints make it unlikely that there will be a clear winner declared two days after Americans headed to the polls. Biden is projected to win both …
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Costolo, a veteran tech entrepreneur who ran Twitter between 2010 and 2015, poured some gasoline on the fire of an argument currently underway in Silicon Valley. People in IT are debating whether corporations should be engaged in social justice activism and allow political discourses in their workspaces. “Me-first capitalists who …
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As the network runs the joke about the two main symptom of the presence of coronavirus: irresistibly drawn to eat buckwheat and take advantage of the toilet paper. But if you approach the issue seriously, the main signs of the presence of coronavirus in humans are weakness, shortness of breath, …
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