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January 23 in History
The ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was first identified from an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Attempts to…
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June 6 in History
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries. It was founded on this day in 1844 by Sir George Williams in London,…
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March 21 in History
‘just setting up my twttr’ - Jack Dorsey created history of sorts with his five-word message sent out at 9:50 p.m. on this day in 2006, starting what is known as the Twitter project, which today has evolved into one of the most popular…
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January 6 in History
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori (1870 – 1952), the Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy, opened her first Casa dei Bambini, or Children's…
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Google’s apps crash in worldwide outage
By Adam Satariano
SAN FRANCISCO - Internet users worldwide received a jarring reminder Monday (14) about just how reliant they are on Google, when the Silicon Valley giant suffered a major outage for about an hour, sending many of its most…
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Astrazeneca releases promising data on its coronavirus vaccine
By Rebecca Robbins and Benjamin Mueller
LONDON - AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford announced on Monday (23) that their inexpensive, easy-to-produce coronavirus vaccine appears effective, the latest in a string of encouraging…
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Leaders who caught virus: Johnson, Bolsonaro and now Trump
By Kaly Soto and Elian Peltier
As the coronavirus has spread around the globe, world leaders have not been spared.
With his positive coronavirus test, President Donald Trump joins the ranks of others like Prime Minister Boris Johnson…
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Trump-Biden debate prompts shock, despair and, in China, glee
By Steven Erlanger
BRUSSELS — The unedifying spectacle of Tuesday (29) night’s presidential debate produced some shock, some sadness and some weariness among American allies and rivals alike on Wednesday (30).
As President Donald…
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Setting the table to prevent food waste
COLOMBO - Sri Lanka will be observing the first ever ‘International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste’, on Tuesday (29), with a series of programs that seeks to raise awareness on the importance of reducing, recycling and reusing food…
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