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Chile-based Kredito raises $4M to help businesses get loans

In the last few months, we’ve seen an explosion in funding for consumer banking startups in Latin America, all eager to reinvent traditional banking in the region. However, the business banking space

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India sets global record for daily coronavirus deaths

India recorded the pandemic’s highest single-day death toll in the world on Wednesday, as coronavirus infections continued to spread through its vast rural areas with w

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Rocket Lab recovered the first stage from its failed May 15 launch, a silver lining for its reusability program

Rocket Lab may have experienced mission failure and total payload loss during the company’s 20th planned mission on May 15, but it wasn’t all bad news, the company said in an update Monday.Impor

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Several injured in east Jerusalem car-ramming attack: Police

A car-ramming attack wounded several people including four police officers in the flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of east Jerusalem on Sunday, police said, adding that the attacker was shot.Aft

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First 24/7 vaccination site opens in east China's Anhui Province

Thousands of people lined up for vaccination late at night in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, May 14, 2021. /CFPAnhui Province set up its first 24/7 COVI

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U.S. truck drivers left industry during COVID-19 pandemic

03:00 The price of fuel in the United States has risen significantly in recent weeks, and it could rise further.It comes amidan ongoing shortage of truck drivers across the nation.Part

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Anhui Province logs three new COVID-19 cases

East China's Anhui Province, which reported China's first local transmissions in more than three weeks on Thursday,logged three new COVID-19 cases and seven asymptomati

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U.S. East Coast fuel shortages continue to worsen despite pipeline's restart

Gasoline shortages in many states on the east coast of the U.S. continue to worsen, despite the restarting operations of the Colonial Pipeline after a ransomware attack

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Africa vaccinations drop below 2 percent of world's total inoculations

FILE PHOTO: A nurse draws a vaccine dose on March 10, 2021 in Kampala, Uganda. /Getty Images Africa’s COVID-19 vaccinations have dropped below 2 percent of the world's total inoculations, acco

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Japan widens state of emergency to three more regions

Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday officially announced that three more prefectures - Hokkaido, Okayama, and Hiroshima - will be placed under a COVID-19 state of emergency due to a recen

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Ireland's health service shuts down IT systems over 'significant ransomware attack'

A maternity hospital is forced to cancel routine appointments due to the "critical emergency", but vaccinations are unaffected.

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U.S. East Coast fuel shortages continue to worsen

A Colonial Pipeline storage tank at a facility in the Port of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., May 12, 2021. /VCG Gasoline shortages in many states on the east coast of the U.S. continue to worsen,

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Dogecoin spurs cryptocurrency craze by jumping 800% in a month

02:40 The Japanese dog breed Shiba Inu is in high demand, especially among investors.The price of Dogecoin has skyrocketed since the beginning of the year, jumping by more than 800 perc

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UK PM Johnson has unpaid 535 pound debt - court document

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whose personal finances have come under the spotlight over the renovation of his Downing Street apartment, has an unpaid debt of 5

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CryptoPunks NFT bundle goes for $17 million in Christie’s auction

A lot of 9 CryptoPunks portraits ended up selling for just under $17 million in a Christie’s auction Tuesday evening, marking another substantial moment for NFT art sales. The lot of pixelated p

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How did India run out of oxygen?

01:59 For weeks now, India has been gripped by an acute shortage of medical oxygen. Patients with severe COVID-19 symptoms are simply unable to breathe and can't get help.CGTN’s Gerald

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Joe Biden tests Republican waters on gun control

03:24 After nearly four months in office devoted mostly to the pandemic, U.S.President Joe Biden has turned his attention to perhaps the single most polarizing topic in American life: g