Virus strain to cause more deaths in Britain; mutated COVID strain 56% more contagious -study
PARIS, France (AFP) -- A mutated coronavirus strain spreading in Britain is on average 56 percent more contagious than…
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Telegram messaging app to launch pay-for services in 2021
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) -- Encrypted messaging app Telegram will launch pay-for services in 2021, its Russian-born founder Pavel Durov…
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Virus hunters delve into Gabon forest in search for next threat
by Adrien MAROTTE ZADIE CAVE, Gabon (AFP) -- The scene looks like something out of a science fiction movie, or…
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Jupiter and Saturn cheek-to-cheek in rare celestial dance
by Juliette COLLEN PARIS, France (AFP) -- The solar system's two biggest planets, Jupiter and Saturn, came within planetary kissing…
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New virus restrictions threaten Hong Kong’s last true junk boat
by Celia CAZALE Agence France Presse HONG KONG, China (AFP) -- The red sails of the "Dukling" junk boat…
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EU court finds against ‘Dieselgate’ car firms
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — The European Court of Justice ruled on Thursday that it had been illegal for car companies…
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Two smuggled Indonesian orangutans fly home from Thailand
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Eating fruit and drinking from plastic bottles, two Sumatran orangutans stared from their cages at Bangkok…
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Well drilling thrives as Caracas water supply flounders
by Andrea TOSTA Agence France-Presse CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — Alfredo Araya used to dig wells on farms or out in…
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Virus hunters delve into Gabon forest in search for next threat
by Adrien MAROTTE Agence France-Presse ZADIE CAVES, Gabon (AFP) — The scene looks like something out of a science fiction…
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Chinese space probe carrying lunar samples returned to Earth: state media
BEIJING, China (AFP) -- An unmanned Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the Moon returned safely to Earth early…
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