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Progress slow on virus relief bill as negotiations continue

Negotiators on a huge coronavirus relief bill reported slight progress after talks resumed in the Capitol, with issues like food for the poor and aid to schools struggl

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Birthday celebrated for twin giant pandas in east China

A birthday party was held for twin giant pandas, Si Nian and Si Junjun, in a zoo in east China's Fujian Province on Sunday. The panda house in the Ling Ling zoo in Xia

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UN welcomes setting date for early elections in Iraq

The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) welcomed on Friday Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi's announcement of setting June 6, 2021, a date for ea

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The Great TechCrunch Survey of Europe’s VCs — Be featured in our survey

TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe.
Over the next few weeks, we will be ‘zeroing-in’ on Europe’s major cities, from A-Z, Amsterdam to Zuri

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TikTok CEO slams Facebook for dirty fight 'disguised as patriotism'

Former Walt Disney executive Kevin Mayer was appointed as the new chief operating officer of TikTok's Chinese parent-company ByteDance this May. /VCG TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer slammed Facebook C

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Chinese airlines plug 'all you can fly' deals in COVID-19 era

People wearing face masks are seen at China Eastern Airlines kiosks at Hongqiao International Airport in Shanghai, following the COVID-19 outbreak, China, May 21, 2020. /Reuters China Southern

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No grace period after Schrems II Privacy Shield ruling, warn EU data watchdogs

European data watchdogs have issued updated guidance in the wake of last week’s landmark ruling striking down a flagship transatlantic data transfer mechanism called Pr

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Audi expects pre-pandemic car sales levels by 2022/2023: paper

Volkswagen's luxury car unit Audi expects car sales to reach pre-COVID-19 levels only by 2022 or 2023, Chief Executive Markus Duesmann told a German business daily."We certainly expect the coronav

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UK PM says justice needed for UK teen killed in crash involving U.S. diplomat's wife

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday raised the case of the death of a British teenager killed in an accident with a car driven by the wife of a U.S. diplom

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Insults, slammed fists: EU virus summit goes into 4th day

Weary and bleary, European Union leaders were gearing up Monday for a fourth day of fighting over an unprecedented 1.85 trillion-euro ($2.1 trillion) EU budget and coro

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U.S. Supreme Court's Ginsburg in hospital after possible infection

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was admitted to a hospital on Tuesday morning for treatment of a possible infection, a court spokeswoman said.The court said that 87-year-old Ginsburg w

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France celebrates Bastille Day with little fanfare amid pandemic

Without the traditional military parade down the famous avenue of the Champs Elysees and public celebration, French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday presided over

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Qualcomm to invest $97 million in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms

Qualcomm has become the latest high-profile backer of four-year-old Reliance Jio Platforms, which has raised more than $15.7 billion in the past 12 weeks from as many investors.On Sunday evening, Qua

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China didn't create COVID-19 pandemic to attack America, says U.S. magazine

It was not rational for anyone to believe that China was complicit in the COVID-19 pandemic, a U.S. security magazine has said. "Lost amid all this finger-pointing is

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U.S. business leader says phase-one trade deal with China in smooth implementation

The implementation of the China-U.S. phase-one economic and trade agreement is proceeding "smoothly, effectively," U.S.-China Business Council (USCBC) president Craig Allen has said. "So far as I kn

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Zoom announces new Hardware as a Service offering to run on ServiceNow

Zoom announced a new Hardware as a Service offering today that will run on the ServiceNow platform. At the same time the company announced a deal with ServiceNow to standardize on Zoom and Zoom Phon

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China 'trying to influence elite figures in British politics', dossier claims

A privately-funded dossier also repeats allegations of a spying risk posed to the UK by the technology firm Huawei.