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Crisis grows in Lebanon

Lebanon's financial crisis has strained the country's COVID-19 response and has brought nearly half the country into poverty.The Lebanese pound dropped to a new low of 15,000 to one U.S. dollar on

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Alex Salmond complaints were 'encouraged' claims Conservative MP

Conservative MP David Davis has used parliamentary privilege to criticise the Scottish government's handling of allegations against Alex Salmond.The former minister tol

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Fauci says Trump should push supporters to get covid vaccine after ‘disturbing’ poll results show they won’t

Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, said in interviews Sunday that former president Donald Trump should be enlisted to encourage his supporter

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Stripe’s epic new valuation and the value-capture gap between public and private markets

Well, it happened.Over the weekend, Stripe announced the closure of its widely reported new round of capital. The $600 million round values the payments and banking software company at $95 billion, ne

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The Quad's vaccine diplomacy: More show than substance?

Yoshihide Suga (C), Japan's prime minister, at the virtual Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) meeting at his official residence, with attendance of U.S. President Joe Biden, Australia's prime

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Huawei sues HSBC for documents US 'wilfully withheld' in extradition request

The company's chief financial officer Meng Wenzhou is currently being held in Canada as a result of a US extradition request.

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ECB keeps policy stance unchanged, to step up pace of bond buying

The European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday decided to keep its monetary policy stance unchanged but said it would step up the pace of bond purchases under the pandemic emergency purchase program (PE

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Award-winning media figures condemn UK's ban on CGTN in open letter

File photo of Ofcom /CFP Editor's note: Fiona Edwards is a member of the Organizing Committee of the No Cold War campaign and a signatory of the open letter protesting Britain's ban on CGTN. T

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Award-winning media figures condemn UK's ban on CGTN in open letter

File photo of Ofcom /CFP Editor's note: Fiona Edwards is a member of the Organizing Committee of the No Cold War campaign and a signatory of the open letter protesting Britain's ban on CGTN. T

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China urges a country to heed just voice of intl community

Certain country launched unilateral sanctions against other countries by wantonly citing human rights as an excuse, which was widely criticized by the international com

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With $19M A round, Halo Dx combines data streams to better diagnose cancers, dementia and more

Healthcare is one of the most complex industries out there, creating frustration on the consumer side but also the opportunity for huge improvements from, in a way, rather simple methods. Halo Diagnos

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U.S. economy got off to modest start in 2021, Fed says

A COVID-19 testing site in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., March 1, 2021. /CFP The U.S. economic recovery continued at a modest pace over the first weeks of the year, with businesses optimisti

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Wipro to buy London’s tech consultancy firm Capco for $1.45 billion

Wipro said on Thursday it has reached an agreement to buy 20-year-old British tech consultancy firm Capco for $1.45 billion as the major Indian software exporter looks to win customers in Europe and A

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Chancellor hails 'British tech success' as Deliveroo picks London for stock market float

The takeaway delivery company confirmed its widely-expected decision to choose London for its expected stock market flotation.

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Australian AG Porter denies rape accusation, won’t resign

Australia’s attorney-general denied having sexual contact with a 16-year-old who had accused him of raping her 33 years ago and said Wednesday he would not resign as th

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Microsoft updates Teams with new presentation features

It’s (virtual) Microsoft Ignite this week, Microsoft’s annual IT-centric conference and its largest, with more than 26,000 people attending the last in-person event in 2019. Given its focu

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Microsoft Azure expands its NoSQL portfolio with Managed Instances for Apache Cassandra

At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced the launch of Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, its latest NoSQL database offering and a competitor to Cassandra-centric companies like D