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Dell spent $67B buying EMC — more than 3 years later, was it worth the debt?

Dell’s 2015 decision to buy EMC for $67 billion remains the largest pure tech deal in history, but a transaction of such magnitude created a mountain of debt for the Texas-based company and its

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Xi expresses condolences to people who died in COVID-19 epidemic

President Xi Jinping on Tuesday expressed condolences to Chinese people who died in the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic, and people who sacrificed their

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Xi Jinping inspects Wuhan, encourages frontline medics

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, on Tuesday

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Xi visits patients, medics at Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday went straight to Huoshenshan Hospital after arriving in Wuhan, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, for inspection. Xi, also

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Fake video shared by Trump gets first ever 'manipulated' tag on Twitter

Despite being tagged as "manipulated", it has been watched more than six million times and been retweeted by the president .

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Turkish military vehicles enter Syria's Idlib as cease-fire enters 2nd day

Dozens of Turkish military vehicles entered Syria's northwestern province of Idlib on Saturday, as the cease-fire brokered by Russia and Turkey is entering its second d

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Syria, Russia presidents discuss cease-fire in Idlib

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday talked over the phone about a cease-fire in Syria's northwestern province of Idli

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Slovakia confirms first case of COVID-19

Slovakia on Friday confirmed the first case of COVID-19 infection in the country. "A 52-year-old man is infected. He appears to have been infected by so-called secondary transmission," said Slovak Pr

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Mark Cuban backs ChatableApps, developer of a hearing assist app that removes background noise

ChatableApps, a U.K. startup commercialising the work of auditory neural signal processing researcher Dr Andy Simpson, has quietly picked up seed backing from Mark Cuban. The company has built a smart

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Russia-Turkey truce holds in Syria despite minor violations

Opposition activists and a war monitor reported a complete absence of Russian and Syrian government warplanes in the skies of Idlib and relative calm in the area Friday

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7 missing after collision of vessels in East China Sea

Chinese maritime rescuers are searching for seven people aboard a fishing boat who went missing after the boat sank in the East China Sea following a collision with a freighter, according to the Shan

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Egypt confirms 3rd case of novel coronavirus: ministry

Egypt's Health Ministry and the World Health Organization said in a joint statement Thursday that an Egyptian citizen was tested positive for the novel coronavirus, bringing the number of confirmed c

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U.S. California state declares emergency to curb novel coronavirus spread

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, hours after the first death caused by the disease was reported in the U.S. state. "T

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Bach: IOC not discussing cancellation or postponement of Tokyo 2020

Thomas Bach, president of the IOC, chairs the press conference at a meeting concerning preparations of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Olympic House, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 3, 2020. /VCG Int

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Bach: IOC not discussing cancellation or postponement of Tokyo 2020

Thomas Bach, president of the IOC, chairs the press conference at a meeting concerning preparations of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Olympic House, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 3, 2020. /VCG Int

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Dow closes down over 780 points despite Fed's interest-rate cut

A trader works at New York Stock Exchange in New York, the United States, Feb. 27, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Ying) U.S. stocks fell sharply on Tuesday, with the Dow closing down more than 780 points, despite

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IOC expresses full commitment to Tokyo 2020 being held on schedule

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board (EB) on Tuesday expressed its full commitment to the success of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, with the Games