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COVID-19 pandemic showed consequences of health underinvestment: WHO

VCG Image The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the consequences of chronic under-investment in public health, according to the World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom.Tedro

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Nigeria ratifies its membership of AfCFTA

FILE PHOTO: Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari during a past event./ Getty Images Nigeria on Wednesday ratified its membership of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) less than a

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Turkey: former deputy PM appointed as finance minister

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has appointed former deputy prime minister Lutfi Elvan as finance minister, to replace Erdogan's son-in-law who stepped down from

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Turkey: former deputy PM appointed as finance minister

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has appointed former deputy prime minister Lutfi Elvan as finance minister, to replace Erdogan's son-in-law who stepped down from

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China's October foreign exchange reserves fell to $3.128 trillion

China's foreign exchange reserves, the world's largest, fell for a second straight month in October to $3.128 trillion from $3.143 trillion in September, data released by the People's Bank of China (

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Crafting prosperity

Folk artists display their achievements in reviving traditional crafts at the Sixth China Intangible Cultural Heritage Expo in Jinan, Shandong province. The expo also shows how these time-honored

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Sovereign default risks to rise further in 2021: Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. headquarters stands in New York, U.S., on Saturday, April 11, 2020. /VCG Sovereign default risks are on course to rise further in 2021, with Iraq, Sri Lanka, Angola an

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China to sanction U.S. individuals, entities over Taiwan arms sales

Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon are among the list of U.S. businesses and individuals that will face Chinese sanctions over arms sales to China's Taiwan, announced

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Investors appear to shrug at antitrust lawsuit aimed at Google

Investors do not seem concerned that the Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit against Google earlier today.The suit, seen by some as a stunt near the election, is one of a multi-part push to

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China's GDP expands 4.9% in Q3

China's economic recovery gathered pace in the third quarter of 2020, with GDP growth in July-September registering at 4.9 percent from a year earlier, boosted by rebou

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Datto sets initial IPO price range, indicating a valuation of around $4B

It was just a few weeks ago that Datto, what TechCrunch called a “backup and disaster recovery firm,” filed to go public. This week the firm set an initial range for its debut.The Vista E

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Stellar blockchain will soon support USDC stablecoin

USDC, the stablecoin co-founded by Circle and Coinbase, first started as an Ethereum-based token. After adding support for the Algorand blockchain, Centre, the consortium that manages USDC, is announc

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Spain’s Savana Medica raises $15 million to bring its AI toolkit turning clinical notes into care insights to the US

Savana, a machine learning-based service that turns clinical notes into structured patient information for physicians and pharmacists, has raised $15 million to take its technology from Spain to the U

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LSE agrees to sell Borsa Italiana to Euronext for $5 billion

London Stock Exchange. /Reuters London Stock Exchange (LSE) said on Friday it had accepted a 4.33 billion euro ($5.09 billion) cash offer by pan-European bourse operator Euronext about the sal

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Imperva to acquire database security startup jSonar

Cybersecurity giant Imperva will acquire jSonar, a database security startup that recently landed $50 million from Goldman Sachs.Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.The acquisition of

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Palantir’s reference price values it at roughly $16 billion

Palantir is preparing for its public debut tomorrow morning on the NYSE after 17 years, and now we are getting some data on how the company’s shares are being valued by investors.NYSE announced that t

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China new tax and fee cuts total 1.88 trillion yuan from Jan. to Aug.

CFP China's new tax and fee cuts totaled 1.88 trillion yuan (about $275 billion) in the January to August period, greatly reducing the burden on enterprises, the country's taxation authority s