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China's Fan completes turnaround over Lin at ITTF World Cup knockout stage
MACAO, April 18 (Xinhua) -- China's Fan Zhendong completed a marvelous comeback win by beating teammate Lin Shidong 4-3 at the ITTF World Cup knockout stage here on Thursday, as seven out of 11 Team China players moved into the top eight.
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World
Earthquake jolts Turkish province of Tokat, AFAD says
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 shook the northern Turkish province of Tokat on Thursday, Turkey's AFAD disaster management authority said.
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World
Centuries-old artworks saved from Copenhagen's stock exchange blaze
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Art conservators are assessing the damage to centuries-old paintings recovered from a blaze that destroyed Copenhagen's Old Stock Exchange this week, the National Museum of Denmark said on Thursday.
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World
Russia may be ready to attack NATO in 5-8 years, German official says
WARSAW (Reuters) - Russia could be ready militarily to attack NATO countries in five to eight years' time if it chose to do so, Germany's top military official said, once it has rebuilt its forces hit by the impact of the Ukraine war.
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World
Kremlin says any new 'colonial' U.S. aid to Ukraine won't change frontline situation
MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Thursday that any new U.S. military aid for Ukraine would not change the situation at the front where Kyiv's forces were in a poor position and cast such aid as part of a "colonial" policy which enriched the United States.
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World
After COVID, WHO defines disease spread 'through air'
LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organization and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time what it means for a disease to spread through the air, in a bid to avoid the confusion early in the COVID-19 pandemic that some scientists have said cost lives.
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World
Lawyers select 12 jurors to serve in Trump hush-money case
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Lawyers in Donald Trump's historic criminal trial on Thursday selected 12 jurors who will assess his guilt or innocence over the coming weeks in a case stemming from a hush-money payment to a porn star.
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World
Indonesian volcano eruption forces evacuations, airport closure
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia shut a provincial airport and evacuated hundreds of people from the vicinity of the Ruang volcano after it belched explosive plumes of lava, rocks and ash for days, officials said on Thursday, declaring the highest alert on the situation.
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World
Croatia ruling party races to form coalition after election win
ZAGREB (Reuters) -Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Thursday his long-dominant ruling HDZ party will announce the name of a coalition partner "very soon", after it won Wednesday's snap election but fell short of an outright majority.
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World
India's election officials climb hills, ford rivers to reach voters
NONGRIAT, India (Reuters) -India was preparing on Thursday for the world's largest general election, as polling officers clambered up hills, travelled deep into areas riven by violent insurgencies and crossed rivers to reach millions of voters across the sprawling nation.
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Nation
Dubai's flood aftermath, Malaysian travellers facing difficulties
DUBAI: Passengers at Dubai Airport are contending with the aftermath of the city's worst flood in 75 years, which has led to disruptions in luggage retrieval.
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Internet
3,000-member revenge porn group had underage victims, US officials say. Creator arrested
Police have arrested the creator of a revenge porn group that contained victims from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas officials said.
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World
Dubai faces massive clean up after deluge swamps glitzy desert city
DUBAI (Reuters) -Dubai, a city in the desert proud of its modern gloss, faced the towering task on Thursday of clearing its waterclogged roads and drying out flooded homes two days after a record storm saw a year's rain fall in a day.
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Gadgets
Parents find camera disguised as phone charger in girl’s room, US cops say. Man charged
The discovery of a hidden camera in an underage girl’s bedroom led to the arrest of a Michigan man whose cellphone contained 294 “graphic images” of child pornography, authorities said.
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World
Germany arrests two for alleged military sabotage plot on behalf of Russia
BERLIN (Reuters) -Two German-Russian nationals have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of plotting sabotage attacks, including on U.S. military facilities, in an effort to undermine military support for Ukraine, officials said on Thursday.
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Data breach
What to do if your personal info has been exposed in a data breach
Data breaches like the recent one involving millions of AT&T customers are becoming an almost regular occurrence.
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AI
AI-generated child pornography is circulating. This US prosecutor wants to make it illegal.
After several reports of artificial intelligence-generated child pornography surfaced in California, Ventura County Dist. Atty. Erik Nasarenko advocated for a change to state law to protect children who are increasingly vulnerable to this misuse of technology.
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Internet
Study links excessive Internet use to teen school absence risk
From TV and games consoles to smartphones and computers, parents and specialists are worried about the effects of screens on young people's cognition, behavior and well-being. A Finnish study published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood will do nothing to reassure them, since it highlights the impact of excessive internet use on school attendance.
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Social media
EU watchdog: Meta shouldn’t force users to pay for data protection
Facebook owner Meta and other online platforms must not force users to pay for the right to data protection enshrined in EU law when offering ad-free subscriptions, the European data regulator said Wednesday.
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Technology
Layoff whiplash scars workers who find new jobs only to lose them
Unlike previous cycles, when employers might do one big layoff, lately employers have done multiple rounds of cuts, and certain sectors like recruitment and marketing have been hit particularly hard. That’s left some workers on edge, with an increasing share of jobseekers saying it’s likely they’ll get laid off from their current or new job in the next six months, according to ZipRecruiter Inc.