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UK film industry in rude health despite virus horror
AFP, Published on 14/11/2020
» LONDON - Far from being wiped out by the coronavirus pandemic, Britain's film and television industry is enjoying a blockbuster run thanks in large part to a surge in online streaming.
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Vaccine trials 'can't detect' virus risk reduction, says researcher
AFP, Published on 22/10/2020
» PARIS: None of the trials of Covid-19 candidate vaccines can detect a reduction in serious outcomes such as hospitalisation or death, a leading public health expert said on Thursday.
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Free school meals: a political football in England
AFP, Published on 26/10/2020
» WATFORD (UNITED KINGDOM) - A campaign by Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford to feed England's poorest children during school holidays has turned into a political football, throwing the spotlight on increased poverty during the coronavirus outbreak.
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Trump barnstorms US, drawing contrast with Biden
AFP, Published on 26/09/2020
» DORAL (UNITED STATES) - With just 39 days until the US election, President Donald Trump ramped up his campaigning with back-to-back events Friday in battleground states -- a frenetic pace in contrast with the more sedate approach of Democratic rival Joe Biden.
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US sends top-level diplomat to Taiwan, defying China
AFP, Published on 17/09/2020
» TAIPEI - A top US diplomat will arrive in Taiwan on Thursday, the highest-ranking State Department official to visit in 40 years, in a further sign of Washington's willingness to defy China and its campaign to isolate the self-ruled island.
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Macron seeks review of fraud case against ex-PM
AFP, Published on 20/06/2020
» PARIS: President Emmanuel Macron has called for a probe into claims that prosecutors were pressured to move fast in a fraud inquiry against former prime minister Francois Fillon, his main right-wing rival in France's 2017 presidential race.
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From Pyongyang to Gangnam: the ex-N. Korean diplomat on the ballot in Seoul
AFP, Published on 08/04/2020
» SEOUL - For decades, Thae Yong Ho served the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, rising to become Pyongyang's deputy ambassador to London before defecting.
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Warren, once a frontrunner, ends her US presidential campaign
AFP, Published on 06/03/2020
» WASHINGTON - Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, once a frontrunner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, ended her campaign on Thursday, setting up a two-man duel between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.
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French fraud trial opens for ex-premier Fillon
AFP, Published on 24/02/2020
» PARIS - Former prime minister Francois Fillon goes on trial in Paris on Monday over claims he embezzled more than a million euros in public funds by creating a fake job for his wife, a scandal that cost him his shot at the French presidency in 2017.
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Sanders the target at Democratic presidential debate
AFP, Published on 26/02/2020
» WASHINGTON - Frontrunner Bernie Sanders will be in the firing line as the other Democratic White House candidates seek to derail his push for the nomination at a crucial debate Tuesday in South Carolina.
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