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Nearly 39 million have sought US jobless aid since virus hit

More than 2.4 million people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week in the latest wave of layoffs from the viral outbreak that triggered widespread business s

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Despite COVID-19, optimism reigns in the Midwest’s startup scene

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Startups in the Midwest are optimistic despite the fact that a fair number of comp

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Hong Kong people need to protect their city from three-fold challenges

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

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Equity Monday: Food delivery economics, and global layoffs

Good morning and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a brief jumpstart for your week.A few housekeeping notes. First, the main, long-from Equity episodes still drop every Friday, so if you are

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APD | So far, so good, Government of Pakistan is faring well in dealing with pandemic

By APD writer Imdad Hussain South Asia, according to the World Bank is in for the worst economic situation in 40 years, with decades of progress in

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Spread of COVID-19 under "control" in most parts of Iran: minister

Iran's Minister of Health and Medical Education Saeed Namaki on Tuesday touted that the spread of COVID-19 is under control in most parts of the country, though the rise in new infections continue

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China takes measures to ease graduation anxiety amid COVID-19

China is seeing a total of 8.74 million students who are set to graduate from college in coming two months. /VCGIn the coming two months, 8.74 million students in China

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Pandemic exposes deficits in responsibility, morality in Washington

First responders wheel a man on a stretcher in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, on May 8, 2020. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua) The United States, though being the world's

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Lies and populism in a post-truth world

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington DC, May 5, 2020. /AP Editor's note:Lionel Vairon is the president of CEC Consultin

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Protests against coronavirus lockdown across U.S. frustrate officials

Photo taken on May 1, 2020 shows a lion statue with a mask in front of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, the United States. (Photo by Joel Lerner/Xinhua) In addition to Michigan, oth

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Concerns over reelection among reasons for U.S. tardy handling of COVID-19, says U.S. scholar

Concerns over reelection and "the natural tendency to think foreign problems are not American problems" are among the factors behind the U.S. government's early delay in handling the COVID-19 pa

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Brazil COVID-19 on the brink of exploding, experts say

02:32 Despite a dismal rate of testing, Brazil has the most COVID-19 infections in Latin America and, experts fear, the country may be on the brink of exploding.Especially in the dense

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Africa, China and COVID-19

Health workers collects samples for coronavirus testing outside a shack, during the screening and testing campaign aimed to combat the spread of COVID-19 at Lenasia South, south Johannesburg, Sou

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Italians stuck at home are measuring light pollution for ‘science on the balcony’

The fact that so many people are stuck at home makes for strange opportunities. Italy’s confined populace has taken to singing from the balconies — and now researchers are asking them to use tho

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Deforestation rises in Brazil despite coronavirus

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest rose in March, government data showed on Friday, indicating that illegal loggers and land speculators have not stopped destroying the forest with the onset

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Fauci: US can expect more than 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, millions of cases

On CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, the leading U.S. authority on the COVID-19 pandemic made some grim predictions about the course of the novel coronavirus as it rages through communities withi

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Smart telescope startups vie to fix astronomy’s satellite challenge

Starlink, the satellite branch of Elon Musk’s SpaceX company, has come under fire in recent months from astronomers over concerns about the negative impact that its planned satellite clusters have rep