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UK-Australia trade deal sparks concern among British farmers

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison, left, and UK leader Boris Johnson announced the trade deal in the garden of 10 Downing Street on Tuesday. /Pool/Reuters The UK and Australia have agr

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Niantic is working with Hasbro on a Pokémon GO-style Transformers game

Niantic has encouraged the world to roam the streets as Pokémon trainers and wizards… next up? Time to transform and roll out.80’s mega toy Transformers is the latest IP to partner with Ni

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Fresha raises $100M for its beauty and wellness booking platform and marketplace

Beauty and wellness businesses have come roaring back to life with the decline of Covid-19 restrictions, and a startup that’s built a platform that caters to the many needs of small enterprises

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Macron says G7 countries should work together to tackle toxic online content

In a press conference at the Élysée Palace, French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated his focus on online regulation, and more particularly toxic content. He called for more international cooperatio

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Scientists explain why COVID-19 lab leak theory doesn't hold water

Medical staff handle samples in local nucleic acid testing laboratory in Fuyang City, Anhui Province, China, May 15, 2021. /CFP Leading virologists in New Zealand have trashed the possibility

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Fintech giant Klarna raises $639M at a $45.6B valuation amid ‘massive momentum’ in the US

Just over three months after its last funding round, European fintech giant Klarna is announcing today that it has raised another $639 million at a staggering post-money valuation of $45.6 billion.Rum

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Payments giant Stripe launches Stripe Tax to integrate sales tax calculations for 30+ countries

On the heels of acquiring sales tax specialist TaxJar in April, today Stripe is making another big move in the area of tax. The $95 billion payments behemoth is launching a new product called Stripe T

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France eases COVID-19 restrictions on sports halls, cafes and travel

01:25 The next stage of the French government's step-by-step plan to reopen the economy has come into effect.The major loosening of restrictions includes relaxing the national curfew to

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Thousands of nurses go on strike in New Zealand

About 30,000 nurses in New Zealand walked off their jobs on Wednesday in a nationwide eight-hour strike after negotiations with the government for better pay and workin

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Global sting: FBI-encrypted app tricks organized crime

A global sting involving an encrypted communications platform developed by the FBI has sparked raids and arrests around the world, delivering “an unprecedented blow” to

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The world needs a breakthrough year

Editor's note: Graça Machel is founder of the Graça Machel Trust. Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand (1999-2008), is chair of the Board of Women Political Leaders. Mary Robinson is

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Bonjour! France welcoming back (vaccinated) tourists

A stroll in Pablo Picasso’s footsteps in Montmartre; breathing in the scents of Provence; a humbling walk along D-Day beaches: These and all of France’s other attractio

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Announcing the Disrupt 2021 Extra Crunch Stage Agenda

Disrupt 2020 was an absolute banger of a conference, but we’re not ones to rest on our laurels. We have an incredible Disrupt in store for you this September 21-23, with an amazing line up of sp

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LeoLabs raises $65M Series B for its satellite monitoring and collision detection service

Low Earth orbit is full of stuff: not only bits of debris and junk, but also satellites — the number of which is growing rapidly alongside the decreasing cost of launch. This can occasionally pose a p

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Biden says 'looking' at possible Russia retaliation over cyberattack

Employees are seen at the Brazilian meatpacker JBS SA in the city of Lapa, Parana state, Brazil, March 21, 2017. /Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he is "looking" at pos

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UK begins process to join Asia-Pacific trade bloc

The 11-member Trans-Pacific Partnership trade bloc has agreed to open accession talks with the UK.The British government, which asked to join the TPP in February, said

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Tinder tested group video chat ahead of Match’s move into social discovery with Hyperconnect deal

As dating app Tinder and its parent company Match explore the future of personal connection through apps, it’s interesting to see what sort of ideas it tested but later discarded. One such exper