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BRICS uphold mutilateralism, set 2025 roadmap for investment, trade

02:13 BRICS countries have agreed to uphold multilateralism for economic recovery during the online summit chaired by Russia on Tuesday. BRICS is the acronym for an emerging-market blo

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Live from Apple’s 2020 Mac event featuring the first ever Apple Silicon Macs

Apple’s had a packed fall, and today is the day of its third big product reveal event this season. This one is going to be squarely focused on the first Macs with Apple Silicon, the companyR

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Live from Apple’s virtual 2020 iPhone event

Apple’s big iPhone event is finally here – virtual, which is to be expected these days. This is already the second virtual event Apple has hosted this fall, following one in September at which

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Watch Google’s Pixel 5 event live right here

Google is holding an event to unveil its new phone, the Google Pixel 5. It is going to be a virtual event, and you can steam it live. The event starts at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. in New York, 7 p.m. in Lo

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35 students infected with COVID-19, over 1,000 sent home in Denmark

Denmark had reported a total of 17,374 confirmed COVID-19 cases and a death toll of 626 by Thursday 3 August 2020. /VCG Image An alarming escalation of 35 confirmed COVID-19 cases among studen

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Duck Creek seeks $3B valuation for its software IPO

American software company Duck Creek has upped the stakes in its impending IPO, raising its price target from a range of $19 to $21 per share to $23 to $25 per share.The bump comes as software and clo

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U.S. state of California surpasses 10,000 deaths from COVID-19

The death toll from COVID-19 in the U.S. state of California grew to 10,011 on Friday, according to the newest figure updated by the state's Department of Public Health

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Dialogue and cooperation is the right way to solve problems, says CSRC

China has never prohibited accounting firms from providing audit work papers to overseas regulators, and conducting open dialogues and cooperation is the right way to solve problems, said China Se

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ispace reveals the final design of its lunar lander ahead of its first mission to the Moon in 2022

Japanese new space startup ispace has revealed the final design of its HAKUTO-R lunar lander, a spacecraft set to make its first touchdown on the Moon in 2022 if all goes to the updated plan (it had b

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UK lowers COVID-19 alert level after steady decrease in cases

The coronavirus alert level across Britain has been lowered from four to three after a steady decrease in COVID-19 cases in the country, the Department of Health and Social Care said Friday. Britain

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Largest active wild fire in U.S. grows to over 110,000 acres

The Bush Fire burning in northeast of Phoenix, U.S. state of Arizona, raged to 114,941 acres (465.15 sq km) as of Thursday morning with 5 percent containment. Now the

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France's COVID-19 death toll up by 28 to 29,575

The coronavirus killed 28 more people in the past 24 hours in hospitals in France, bringing the country's death toll to 29,575, according to data released on Wednesday by the Health Ministry. Among t

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Chinese government donates 6th batch of anti-COVID-19 medical supplies to Pakistan

The Chinese government on Tuesday donated the sixth batch of anti-COVID-19 medical supplies to Pakistan at the Islamabad International Airport to help the country fight against the pandemic. Addre

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White House not to release economic projections this summer: Washington Post

White House officials have decided not to release updated economic projections this summer, as the economic toll from the COVID-19 outbreak continues to mount, the Was

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France COVID-19 update: Confirmed cases continue to decline

France's coronavirus case numbers are continuing to decline, health officials said on Saturday, with 14,380 patients currently in hospital, down from 14,695 a day earlier. /REUTERS France's co

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New database on China's biodiversity released

China has released a database of its national annual species checklist to facilitate biodiversity research and conservation, according to the Chinese Academy of Scienc

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COVID-19 hospitalizations in France slightly up

The number of patients hospitalized for the COVID-19 infection in France rose by seven to 17,185 in the last 24 hours, the first such increase since mid-April, according to data released on Sunday b