0303 GMT January 17, 2021
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The visit of Real Madrid to the French capital today means a glamour tie for Paris Saint-Germain to begin its Champions League campaign but a meeting with the Spanish side also brings back unhappy memories.
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As dozens of fires scorched large swaths of the Amazon, the Brazilian government struggled to contain growing global outrage over its environmental policies, which have paved the way for runaway deforestation of the world’s largest rain forest.
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A coffee caravan in rural Suffolk, furniture restoration projects for men and organized rambles for the recently bereaved are among more than a hundred initiatives being backed with a £11.5-million fund to tackle Britain’s epidemic of loneliness.
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China’s self-styled war on pollution is extending to a new front: The solid waste that makes up thousands of slag heaps around the country, a byproduct of its record steel output.
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Too many graduates in England are being left with big debts for too little payback, MPs are warning.
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Struggling homeowners, working single parents and the disabled will be among the hardest hit under the UK government’s new benefits system unless urgent action is taken in the budget, British Prime Minister Theresa May has been warned.
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China’s Huawei, the world’s largest telecom-equipment maker, on Wednesday said it will sell some servers powered by its own chips for the first time, doubling down on efforts to boost its cloud computing business.
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Walmart Inc. (WMT.N) said on Monday it would partner with US movie studio Metro Goldwyn Mayer to create content for its video-on-demand service, Vudu, which the retailer bought eight years ago.
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Some of corporate America's dirty secrets were aired this week at a conference that overlapped the anniversary of the "Me Too" movement and the contentious debate over Brett Kavanaugh, who was confirmed as the latest Supreme Court justice on Saturday.
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Wearing matching blue Nehru jackets, the dozen inspectors were fanning out across Mumbai's hectic Crawford Market, each scouring for violators of an ambitious plastic ban.
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The world's nations gather at a UN conference in South Korea today to review and approve a 20-page bombshell — distilled from more than 6,000 scientific studies — laying out narrowing options for staving off climate catastrophe.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that a joint statement on Syria due to be made after his meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin would bring ‘new hope’ to the region.
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Hollywood's A-listers gather on Monday to honor the best in television at the Emmy Awards, with record-breaking fantasy epic ‘Game of Thrones’ back in the competition and once again looking to slay its rivals.
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China’s health commission is getting rid of three offices that were previously dedicated to family planning, it announced late on Sunday, the latest signal that Beijing may further reduce restrictions on childbirth to combat an aging population.
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