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Reddit, Twitch ban Trump forums amid hate speech crackdown

Social media site Reddit on Monday shut down r/The_Donald, the largest pro-Trump forum on its site, isolating Facebook in its reluctance to enforce content rules against Trump's hateful and violent r

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AMC delays reopening date by two weeks to July 30

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc said on Monday it has delayed the reopening of its theaters in the United States by two weeks to July 30.The world's largest movie theater operator said that the dat

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Europe must 'be more honest in addressing weaknesses' - ex-Sweden PM

Bildt says Europe needs to look inwards to address its globalization challenges. /Kyna Studio The former prime minister of Sweden says Europe needs to take a long, hard look in the mirror if i

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Apple began work on the Watch’s hand washing feature years before COVID-19

Handwashing for the Apple Watch happily slotted alongside face masks for Memojis in the list of COVID-19-related features the company introduced at last week’s WWDC keynote. It’s a pedestrian action,

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For HK, possible U.S. sanctions spell transformation not doom

Editor's note: Alicia Garcia Herrero is the chief economist for Asia Pacific at NATIXIS and a research fellow at Bruegel. The article reflects the author's opinions and not necessarily the views o

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Iran's Khamenei warns economy will worsen if virus spreads

Iran's supreme leader warned on Saturday that the country's economic problems would worsen if the novel coronavirus spreads unchecked, as the government launched a mask-wearing campaign.The Islami

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Brazil signs agreement to produce experimental COVID-19 vaccine

Brazil announced on Saturday that it had signed an agreement worth 127 million U.S. dollars to start producing locally an experimental vaccine developed by AstraZeneca that has shown promise to fi

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W.House denies Trump briefed on Russia-Taliban bounty intelligence

The White House denied Saturday that President Donald Trump had been briefed on intelligence that reportedly showed Russia had offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants if they killed U.S. soldier

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Mary Meeker’s Bond backs Indian online learning startup Byju’s

Indian online learning startup Byju’s has added one more high-profile name to the list of its backers: Bond.In a statement on Friday, Bangalore-based Byju’s said it had raised an undisclos

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U.S. business associations oppose tariffs on Canadian aluminum

Major U.S. business associations have voiced opposition to the Trump administration's reportedly proposed tariffs on imported aluminum from Canada, which would hurt Am

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Bayer pays $10 bln to settle weedkiller cancer cases

A sign of Bayer on a building. /VCG German chemical giant Bayer said on Wednesday it had agreed to pay more than 10 billion U.S. dollars to end a wave of lawsuits from Americans who say their

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Update: Trump says "probably" sending U.S. troops from Germany to Poland

Combo photo shows U.S. President Donald Trump speaking to journalists and the map of Europe, with Germany and Poland marked out by blurry red spots. (Xinhua) "We gotta be reducing our forces in Germa

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PACT Act takes on internet platform content rules with ‘a scalpel rather than a jackhammer’

The PACT Act is a new bipartisan effort to reform Section 230, the crucial liability shield that enables internet platforms to exist, approaching the law’s shortcomings “with a scalpel rat

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Hoxton Ventures’ partners assess Europe’s early-stage landscape

Hoxton Ventures, a London-based early-stage VC firm best known for backing British unicorns Babylon Health, Darktrace and Deliveroo, announced its second fund last week, coming in at just under $100 m

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Factbox: How BeiDou is used in China and around the world

China has completed the deployment of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) with the recent launch of its last satellite, the 55th of the BeiDou family. So far,

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Interview: Bangladesh minister hails China's global navigation system with final BeiDou satellite

Bangladesh's tech guru on Wednesday hailed China's global navigation constellation achievement with the successful launch of a final BeiDou satellite. Bangladeshi Post

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Zopa granted full UK bank licence as it gears up to launch savings account and credit card

Zopa, the 15 year old peer-to-peer lending company, is announcing that it has been awarded its full U.K. bank licence, as it gears up to launch a fixed term savings account, followed by a credit card.