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S. Korea hunts sick beds as West braces for long virus fight

South Korea struggled to find enough beds for its sick, Italy grappled with a rising number of deaths and concern grew over an expanding outbreak in the United States o

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San Francisco poised to pass Prop E, which could significantly reduce new startup office space

San Francisco is poised to pass a controversial proposition that would almost certainly limit further office space development in the city, perhaps pushing more tech companies and startups to set up t

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Robinhood’s downtime as a stress test for the consumer fintech boom

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Earlier this week, the popular free stock trading service Robinhood suffered downt

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Virus fears prompt Italy to ban kisses, handshakes

File photo of two people wearing Venetian masks in the Italian tourist hotspot Venice. /AFP Italy was set Wednesday to urge people to stop greeting each other by kissing or shaking hands to li

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Coronavirus: No decision yet whether to close all schools in Italy

Italy has not yet decided whether to close schools and universities over the novel coronavirus, Education Minister Lucia Azzolina has said, after Ansa and other Italian

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Coronavirus epidemic takes its toll on European tourism

Venice, one of the most-visited tourist attractions in Italy. /VCG A near-empty St. Mark's Square, cancelled carnival festivities and a number of gondoliers sitting and waiting for customers…

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Pakistan struggles to combat devastating locust plague

00:43 Farmers in Pakistan are struggling to combat the worst locust plague in nearly three decades as insect swarms decimate entire harvests in the country's agricultural heartlands an

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News Analysis: EU poised for stimulus amid COVID-19 risks

The announcement of rate cut from several major central banks in the world has pushed policymakers in the European Union (EU) one step further towards stimulus as the

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Half of world's beaches could vanish by 2100

VCG Climate change and sea level rise are currently on track to wipe out half the world's sandy beaches by 2100, researchers warned on March 1.Even if humanity sharply reduces the fossil fuel

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Wall Street tumbles despite Fed's emergency interest-rate cut

U.S. equities closed sharply lower on Tuesday as concerns of slower economic growth persist, despite the Federal Reserve's emergency interest-rate cut. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 7

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Pope tests negative for coronavirus, Italy report says

Pope Francis, who canceled a Lent retreat for the first time in his papacy because he is suffering from a cold, has tested negative for coronavirus, the Italian newspap

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Roundup: Italy confirms 2,263 coronavirus cases, plus 160 recoveries, 79 deaths

A woman wearing a face mask is seen in the subway in Milan, Italy, March 2, 2020. (Photo by Daniele Mascolo/Xinhua)Of the 2,263 cases, some 1,000 people are currently under house quarantine, 1,034 are

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Dow closes down over 780 points despite Fed's interest-rate cut

A trader works at New York Stock Exchange in New York, the United States, Feb. 27, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Ying) U.S. stocks fell sharply on Tuesday, with the Dow closing down more than 780 points, despite

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Robinhood will offer “case-by-case” compensation for its outage on the day markets gained $1.1 trillion

Robinhood, the popular trading app with a purported 10-million-strong user base and a $7.6 billion valuation, said it will offer compensation for yesterday’s outage on a case-by-case basis, acco

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UEFA sets up group to focus on coronavirus fixture impact

UEFA General Secretary Theodore Theodoridis (L) and UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin (R) attend the press conference during the 44th UEFA Congress in Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 3, 2020. /VCG

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Suspected coronavirus patients could face detainment under South Australian laws

South Australians diagnosed with coronavirus could be detained for failing to comply with mandatory quarantine under new laws. The South Australia (SA) government on Monday night announced a raft of

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Erdogan-Putin meeting expected to ease spiking tensions in Syria's Idlib: experts

by Burak Akinci After suffering its worst casualties in years, Turkey has launched a new major offensive against the Russia-backed Syrian forces in Idlib, but analysts said the spiking Russian-Turki