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Is the NED interfering in Hong Kong politics?

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Strains from Europe, U.S. account for most COVID-19 cases in B.C.

Cars drive through Canadian customs, March 25, 2020. /Reuters New modelling data revealed by British Columbia (B.C.), Canada has indicated that most COVID-19 cases in the province are linked

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Partnership with China remains in Britain's national interest

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Dow extends losses, Nasdaq closes above 10,000 for first time

U.S. stocks ended mixed on Wednesday as Wall Street digested the Federal Reserve's latest statement on interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 282.31 points, or 1.04 percent, to 26,989

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The latest: U.S. Fed keeps interest rates near zero, sees no rate change through 2022

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the House Financial Services Committee during the Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.,

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Fed to keep buying bonds and sees no rate hike through 2022

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U.S. consumer prices in May fall 0.1%, the third consecutive month

U.S. consumer prices dropped in May for the third straight month as the coronavirus pandemic pushed the American economy into a recession.The Labor Department said Wedn

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Radical reforms: Disbanding police forces in the U.S.

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HK expert urges cautious opening up of border in COVID-19 new normal

03:02 After five months of hard work, China has contained the spread of COVID-19. Now the discussion has shifted to how the country can continue to reopen its economy, along with its b

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Uber Africa launches Uber Cash with Flutterwave and explores EVs

Uber is launching its Uber Cash digital wallet feature in Sub-Saharan Africa through a partnership with San Francisco based — Nigerian founded — fintech firm Flutterwave.The arrangement will allow ri

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Will negative interest rates help economies shake off COVID-19?

06:08 Normally, people and firms can earn interest income from their bank deposits, but imagine if banks charged you for storing money with them?This is not fiction but indeed has been

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Radical reforms: Disbanding police forces in the U.S.

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IMF to revise down Asia and Pacific growth forecast amid mounting COVID-19 fallout

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is expected to revise down the growth forecast for the Asia and Pacific region in a revised update to its World Economic Outlook

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IBM Cloud suffers prolonged outage

The IBM Cloud is currently suffering a major outage, and with that, multiple services that are hosted on the platform are also down, including everybody’s favorite tech news aggregator, Techmeme

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Acceleprise announces 26 SaaS startups from its trio of accelerators

The TechCrunch crew has worked to keep tabs on this year’s startup accelerator classes. Conventional wisdom in startup land states that great companies are founded during more trying economic ti

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Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star blacked out in George Floyd protests

U.S. President Donald Trump's star on Hollywood Boulevard was vandalized with black spray paint during weekend protests over the death of George Floyd, an African Amer

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U.S. prosecutors spar with Prince Andrew in Epstein probe

File photo of Britain's Prince Andrew. /Reuters The war of words between Prince Andrew and the U.S.Department of Justice has been reignitedMonday, on which Prince Andrew'slawyer team claimed t