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House votes to ease restrictions on COVID-19 small business loans

The U.S. Paycheck Protection Program is one of the core parts of the $2 trillion pandemic rescue package passed in March. /Reuters The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill a

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The $2 trillion plan that could change the EU forever

04:10 The huge financial package proposed to blunt the economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus could change the European Union forever.If approved, it would allow the European

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Preventing food waste nets Apeel $250 million from Singapore’s government, Oprah, and Katy Perry

Food waste and the pressures on the global food supply chain wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic have captured headlines around the world, and one small startup based in t

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Sunday mass in France, Spain to resume tourism: COVID-19 bulletin

TOP HEADLINES•Spain will reopen to international tourists from July, announced the prime minister Pedro Sánchez. He also said the country's top two football divisions will be allowed to resume behind

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Japan central bank in $279 bln loan boost for small firms

A man runs past the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo, Japan, July 29, 2016. /Reuters Japan's central bank on Friday offered hundreds of billions of dollars in additional lending to help small

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UN envoy reports alarming military escalation in Libya

"As foreign intervention increases, the Libyans themselves are getting lost in the mix, their voices crowded out. We must not let Libya slip away. We must enable responsible Libyans to write their own

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Obama criticizes virus response in online graduation speech

Former President Barack Obama on Saturday criticized U.S. leaders overseeing the nation’s response to the coronavirus, telling college graduates in an online commenceme

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A system to monitor air pollution is helping track locust swarms

A model for tracking air pollution is helping trace the movement of locust swarms, providing early warning to many developing countries.Developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra

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As Trump resumes travel, staff takes risks to prepare trip

For much of the last two months, President Donald Trump has rarely left the grounds of the White House as he’s dealt with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic and so

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TripAdvisor will cut almost 25% of its workforce as the travel industry languishes

In a blog post, TripAdvisor CEO and co-founder Stephen Kaufer announced that the company would be reducing its workforce in light of the pandemic, which has wrought particular havoc on the travel indu

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Trump set to sign bill with nearly $500B more in virus aid

President Donald Trump will hold a signing ceremony Friday for a bill providing a nearly $500 billion infusion of coronavirus spending, rushing new relief to employers

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Wall Street tumbles as oil crash stirs pandemic fears

Wall Street tumbled for a second straight day on Tuesday as a collapse in U.S. oil prices and glum forecasts by companies worsened fears of a deep economic downturn. All 11 SP 500 sector indexes fell

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Anatomy of the coronavirus collapse

Editor's note: Eswar Prasad is professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University's Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Ethan Wu is a st

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China vs. bad news: Toss negativity in the nearest trash can

People wearing protective face masks to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus walk across a street in Beijing, China, April 12, 2020. /AP Editor's note: Bobby Naderi is a journalist, guest

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European Central Bank deploys stimulus to ease virus damage

The European Central Bank is deploying new stimulus measures to cushion the economic pain inflicted by the virus outbreak, but avoided cutting interest rates in a situa

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World needs China to get fully back to work

Editor's note: Azhar Azam works in a private organization as a market and business analyst and writes about geopolitical issues and regional conflicts. The article reflects the author's opinions,

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Daily Crunch: DoorDash files to go public

DoorDash prepares to go public, Roblox raises $150 million and Reddit’s CEO takes aim at TikTok. Here’s your Daily Crunch for February 27, 2020.1. DoorDash, the $13B on-demand food delive