The coronavirus is clouding the "Black Friday" as much as it has overshadowed 2020 in general, but some leading experts still expect strong overall sales even as shopping patterns are altered.The
Amazon Web Services is currently having an outage, taking a chunk of the internet down with it.Several AWS services were experiencing problems as of early Wednesday, according to its status page. Tha
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a news conference at UN headquarters in New York City, November 20, 2020. /Reuters United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Gute
Last week, Udemy, an online learning marketplace, raised $50 million at a $3.32 billion valuation, up from a $2 million valuation earlier this year. Language learning app Duolingo raised $35 million o
The Desert Locust crisis which struck the greater Horn of Africa region earlier this year threatening food supplies for millions, could re-escalate as recent strong winds carried mature swarmlets
Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. will transfer control of the @POTUS account to the Joe Biden administration on January 20, the social media companies said on Saturday, even if President Donald Trum
A Somali man attempts to fend off desert locusts in a grazing land at Daynile neighborhood, outskirts of Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, on Nov. 7, 2020. (Xinhua/Hassan Bashi) Somalia and the F
FILE PHOTO: Friday, Feb. 1, 2019, Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa. /AP The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday urged African countries to
On October 29 and 30, 2020 at the Lomonosov Moscow State University scientific and practical forum was held to promote the principles of a green economy (Moscow Green E
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday said America will "have an orderly transfer from this administration to the next one" on time despite Presi
Apple has agreed to pay $113 million to 34 states and the District of Columbia to settle allegations that it broke consumer protection laws when it systematically downplayed widespread iPhone battery
02:39 The international art scene has embraced virtual reality during the pandemic, with online exhibitions and 3D interactive views of artworks among the ways that artists and galleri
President-elect Joe Biden on Monday warned of dire consequences if President Donald Trump and his administration continue to refuse to coordinate with his transition te
President-elect Joe Biden on Monday will focus on plans for reviving a pandemic-battered U.S. economy as he prepares for his new administration, while President Donald
Former President Barack Obama has stated that President-elect Joe Biden's electoral victory over President Donald Trump is greater than Trump's 2016 victory over then-D
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ramped up efforts Friday to try to get Morocco and pro-independence supporters in disputed Western Sahara to step back from a re
Editor's note: Matteo Giovannini is a finance professional at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Beijing and a member of the China Task Force at the Italian Ministry of Economic Develo
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