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AstraZeneca trial joy; Turkey backs EU digital pass: COVID-19 Bulletin

TOP HEADLINES:· A new trial conducted by AstraZenecaof 5,197 participants who had not been exposed to COVID-19showed a 77 percent reduced risk of developing symptomatic disease. The participants were

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Webiny nabs $3.5M seed to build serverless development framework on top of serverless CMS

Webiny, an early-stage startup that launched in 2019 with an open-source, serverless CMS, had also developed a framework to help build the CMS, and found that customers were also interested in that to

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Messi exit 'sad but necessary' after Barca's debt time bomb explodes

Rousing chants of Lionel Messi's name came in the 10th minute of Barcelona's 4-2 victory over Real Sociedad on Sunday night. A week after witnessing their former talism

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For British agency Ascendant, growth marketing is much more than a set of tactics

Growth marketing is often misconceived as a set of tactics when it’s much more: It is a process that startups need to put in place in their early days that will scale as their customer base and

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Messi exit 'sad but necessary' after Barca's debt time bomb explodes

A Barcelona supporter displays Lionel Messi's number 10 shirt after returning to Camp Nou for the first time in 526 days, Barcelona, Spain, August 15 2021. /CFP Rousing chants of Lionel Messi'

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U.S. consumer sentiment plummets in early August to decade low

Shoppers visit H&M store at Times Square in New York City, New York, U.S., May 20, 2021. /CFP U.S. consumer sentiment dropped sharply in early August to its lowest level in a decade, in a worr

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Let science guide in battle against COVID-19, says Botswanan minister

Chinese Ambassador to Botswana Wang Xuefeng (L) and Botswana Minister of Health and Wellness Edwin Dikoloti pose for a photo during the handover ceremony, when the Chinese embassy donated oxygen

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NFT market OpenSea hits $1.5 billion valuation

It’s been a wild 2021 for NFT auction marketplace OpenSea. The startup was exceedingly well-positioned in a niche space when NFTs exploded earlier this year seemingly out of nowhere. Since then,

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Swiss Post acquires e2e encrypted cloud services provider, Tresorit

Swiss Post, the former state-owned mail delivery firm which became a private limited company in 2013, diversifying into logistics, finance, transport and more (includin

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Opioid addiction treatment apps found sharing sensitive data with third parties

Several widely used opioid treatment recovery apps are accessing and sharing sensitive user data with third parties, a new investigation has found.As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to r

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Building collapse lawsuits seek to get answers, assign blame

Even as the search continues over a week later for signs of life in the mangled debris of the fallen Champlain Towers South, the process of seeking answers about why it

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Kane leads England into Euro 2020 semis, Denmark past Czech Republic

Harry Kane scored twice as a buoyant England cruised through to the semi-finals of Euro 2020 with a one-sided 4-0 win over Ukraine on Saturday.Kane ended a worrying int

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Kane leads England into Euro 2020 semis, Denmark past Czech Republic

Harry Kane scored twice as a buoyant England cruised through to the semi-finals of Euro 2020 with a one-sided 4-0 win over Ukraine on Saturday.Kane ended a worrying int

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UN peacekeeping missions face potential shutdown if $6 billion budget not approved

Officials and diplomats for the United Nations on Monday said the organization's global peacekeeping missions are at risk of being shutdown if the U.N. General Assembly

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Top secret defense documents of UK warship found at bus stop

The UK's Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer HMS Defender arrived at the Black Sea port of Odessa, Ukraine on June 18. /Reuters/Sergey Smolentsev Classified documents from the UK's Ministry of Defenc

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World Refugee Day: How many people were displaced in 2020?

"Wars, violence, persecution, and human rights violations" amid the pandemic led to a record high of 82.4 million people being displaced by the end of 2020, according to the latest data from the Unit

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Rise in far-right extremists seen in Germany last year

Authorities in Germany said Tuesday that the number of far-right extremists in the country increased last year as neo-Nazis sought to join protests against pandemic-rel