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Turkey issues second arrest warrant for jailed businessman Kavala

A Turkish court issued a new arrest warrant on Monday against Turkish businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala, who was re-arrested last month after being acquitted in a separate trial, one of

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Zapier CEO Wade Foster on scaling a remote team up to 300 employees

When Zapier was founded in 2011, it was a side project for three friends from Missouri who wanted to make it easier to connect any one web app to another. Nine years, millions of users and around 300

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MH17 families protest with empty chairs opposite Russian Embassy

The families of people killed when a missile shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014 set out 298 white chairs outside the Russian Embassy on Sunday in a silent protest a

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COVID-19: Europe steps up measures to contain the crisis

02:22 Geneva's population was down to less than half of what it should have been this week. Hotel bookings weren't a problem. Rush hour was a cinch. But the economic cost will have bee

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Philippine president to declare "state of public health emergency" to curb COVID-19 spread

MANILA, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to declare a "state of public health emergency" after the Department of Health (DOH) confirmed the local spread of novel c

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Maryland confirms COVID-19 cases

03:52 The U.S. state of Maryland has now joined the ranks of those places in the country with confirmed cases of novel coronavirus.Three Maryland residents have tested positive for COV

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Roundup: African countries warned to guard against xenophobic attitude amid COVID-19 spread

The photo shows health officials doing coronavirus screening at the international airport of Lagos, Nigeria, on Feb. 26. (Xinhua/Emmanuel Osodi) Experts warned African countries to guard against xen

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Serbia reports first COVID-19 case

Serbia has reported its first case of COVID-19, the country's health minister Zlatibor Loncar confirmed Friday. Loncar said during a news conference that the patient is a 43-year-old man who lives i

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S. Africa reports first case of COVID-19

South Africa on Thursday reported the first case of the COVID-19 coronavirus. "The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) confirmed that a suspected case of COVID-19 has tested positive.

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UK Supreme Court refuses permission for Dubai ruler to appeal publicity ruling

Britain’s top court on Thursday refused Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum's permission to appeal a ruling allowing the publication of two judgments gi

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Hong Kong reports 2 more confirmed case of COVID-19, 102 in total

Hong Kong on Wednesday reported two more confirmed COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number to 102. The first case involved a 43-year-old man, who is the abbot of a B

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Chinese First Lady sent appreciation letter to students in Sri Lanka

Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, sent a letter to the students of Devi Balika Vidyalayain, Sri Lanka, thanking them for their support during the outbr

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Brooklinen raises $50M to open more stores and expand internationally

Brooklinen, a startup that sells bedding and other home goods online, has raised $50 million in new funding from Summit Partners.Recent headlines are spurring bigger questions about the direct-to-cons

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‘She’s Doing a Great Job!’ POTUS Donald Trump Gets Standing Ovation for Praising Wife Melania

Earlier, a clip of Donald Trump during the Conservative Political Action Conference 2020 in Maryland went viral, as the American President intrigued social media fans w

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Mahathir seeks Parliament vote as new Malaysian PM sworn in

Mahathir Mohamad called Sunday for an urgent sitting of Malaysia’s Parliament to contest the appointment of a former ally as prime minister under a Malay-majority coali

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson engaged to girlfriend

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson waves as he leaves Downing Street in London, Britain, February 26, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his girlfriend Carrie

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Australia records 1st death, 1 new case of COVID-19

A 78-year-old man died in a hospital in Perth of West Australia overnight, recorded as the first death case of COVID-19 in the country. The man and his wife were evacuated from the Diamond Princess