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Rocket Lab successfully launches its 12th Electron, carrying NASA and NRO payloads

Rocket Lab has returned to active launch status from its first launchpad in New Zealand, after the global COVID-19 pandemic temporarily paused its work there. Early this morning, it flew its 12th Ele

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French police dump handcuffs in protest against government

French police marched in protest along Paris' Champs Elysees boulevard to the Interior Ministry on Friday, accusing the government of scapegoating law enforcement agencies as public anger over race d

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UN chief extends telecommuting arrangements to July 31

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced on Friday that he has decided to extend the current telecommuting arrangements at UN headquarters in New Yo

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'Persistent fragilities' ahead for households and businesses: Fed

The U.S. Federal Reserve building in Washington, U.S., May 1, 2020. /Reuters The Federal Reserve expects household finances and business balance sheets to suffer "persistent fragilities" as a

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From Spider-Man to Grand Theft Auto - here's all 26 games announced for PS5

More than two-dozen titles were announced during the launch event for PS5 - here's what Sky News is most excited for.

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Hong Kong's education must hold fast to right direction of "one country, two systems": spokesperson

Photo taken on Aug. 5, 2019 shows China's national flag and the flag of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) on the Golden Bauhinia Square in Hong Kong, so

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Live COVID-19 updates: India's caseload nears 300,000, world's 7.3 million

The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. - - - - NEW DELHI -- India's Health Ministry said Friday that 396 new deaths from COVID-19, besides 10,956 new cases w

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Shanghai reports five new imported COVID-19 cases

Shanghai reported five new imported COVID-19 cases and zero increase in locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the municipal health commission said Friday. Th

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Wall Street tumbles amid renewed virus fears, Fed's bleak forecast

Wall Street suffered its worst day in nearly three months on Thursday, with the Dow plunging more than 1,800 points amid a broad market sell-off. The 30-stock index sh

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Wall Street plunges to close with biggest one-day loss since March 16

U.S. stocks extended losses on June 11, 2020, with the S&P 500 on track for its sharpest percentage decline since April 1. /Reuters Wall Street plummeted on Thursday as investors reacted to re

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Dow plunges over 1,800 points as Wall Street suffers worst day since March

A trader wearing a face covering works on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, the United States, on May 26, 2020. (Colin Ziemer/NYSE/Handout via Xinhua)The major averages of

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U.S. jobless claims total 1.54 mln last week as reopening efforts continue

Photo taken on May 8, 2020 shows the building of U.S. Department of Labor in Washington D.C., the United States. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua)With the latest numbers, ove

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COVID-19 nearly killed this office furniture startup; turning to home offices may save it

A lot of U.S.companies have had near-death experiences in recent months. Among them is Branch, a 1.5-year-old, venture-backed New York-based startup that sells what it calls “exceptional office

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Software’s meteoric rise: Have VCs gone too far?

In both the private and public markets, valuations for B2B software companies continue to climb. The average publicly traded cloud company trades at nearly 12x forward revenue, while in the private ma

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PS5: What to expect ahead of tonight's launch event

Sony is set to launch the next generation of its PlayStation console in an event streamed on YouTube and Twitch.

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Quantum 'fifth state of matter' observed in space for first time

Scientists have observed the fifth state of matter in space for the first time, offering unprecedented insight that could help solve some of the quantum universe's most intractable conundrums, res

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Spotlight: U.S. Fed sees near zero interest rates through 2022, warns of long road to recovery

The U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) on Wednesday kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at the record-low level of near zero, and projected interest rates to remain at