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SNAPCHAT AXES TRUMP ACCOUNT FROM CURATED PROMOTIONAL SECTION
Snap, Inc. said it would no longer promote US President Donald Trump’s account in Snapchat’s Discover section, saying his incendiary comment
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Jun 5, 20201 min read


RECORD COVID-19 DEATHS FRAZZLE BRAZIL, MEXICO; 20 SCRIBES DEAD IN PERU
Brazil and Mexico reported record daily coronavirus death tolls as governments in Latin America battled to fortify defenses against the acce
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Jun 5, 20201 min read


CHINESE ONLINE GAMING FIRM SEEKS NEARLY $3-B FROM HK LISTING
NetEase, the second largest mobile game company in the world behind Tencent, is planning a secondary listing for its shares on Hong Kong's s
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Jun 4, 20201 min read


CHINA DELAYED RELEASE OF CORONAVIRUS INFO, WHO EXECS GROUSE
Throughout January, the World Health Organization (WHO) publicly praised China for what it called a speedy response to the new coronavirus a
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Jun 4, 20202 min read


TECH RIGHTS GROUP SUES TRUMP OVER SOCIAL MEDIA ORDER
A tech-focused civil liberties group on Tuesday sued to block President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to regulate social media,
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Jun 4, 20201 min read


GLITCH GIVES LOANS TWICE TO SMALL US BUSINESSES
A technical snafu in a US government system caused many small businesses to receive loans twice or more under a federal aid program to help
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Jun 4, 20201 min read


NEW EBOLA OUTBREAK HITS CONGO
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo announced a new Ebola outbreak in the western city of Mbandaka on Monday, adding to another
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Jun 4, 20201 min read


BILLIONAIRE SCIENTIST CLAIMS US HAS OKd MONKEY TESTS FOR HIS VACCINE
The race for a COVID-19 vaccine has a dark horse entrant. Billionaire scientist and businessman Patrick Soon-Shiong announced in a 27 May in
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Jun 4, 20202 min read


FACEBOOK EMPLOYEES WALK OUT, SAY TRUMP’S POSTS MUST BE REINED IN
Facebook employees walked away from their work-from-home desks on Monday and took to Twitter to accuse Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mark Zu
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Jun 4, 20201 min read


SCIENTISTS RAP US FOR JUNKING IRAN SANCTION WAIVERS
Scientists have warned that the US State Department has committed a grievous mistake by not waiving sanctions on parties redesigning an Iran
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Jun 4, 20201 min read


SCIENTISTS SEEK PANDEMIC HOTSPOTS TO TEST COVID-19 VACCINES
Vaccine developers are in a hurry to fly to global COVID-19 hotspots to test their vaccines and the lower the infection rate, the lower the
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Jun 4, 20201 min read


AMAZON, TWITTER, MICROSOFT AND BOX CALL FOR END TO RACISM
Amazon has tweeted an extraordinary statement about the “inequitable and brutal treatment of Black people” in support of George Floyd protes
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Jun 3, 20201 min read


COVID-19 LOSING VIRULENCE, CLAIMS ITALIAN DOCTOR
The COVID-19 is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, Italian Dr. Alberto Zangrillo, head of the San Raffaele Hospital in Mila
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Jun 3, 20201 min read


NORTH KOREA ONE OF FEW NATIONS TO DODGE COVID-19, SAYS ENVOY
Due to strict lockdown measures North Korea managed to keep COVID-19 caused by novel coronavirus out of its territory, which makes it almost
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Jun 2, 20202 min read


INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS MARKET IN RUSSIA TO SLUMP 10%
Industrial companies will reduce investments into the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) projects by 10% to 7.1 bln rubles ($101.1 mIllion
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Jun 2, 20201 min read


NEW STUDY HINTS PANGOLINS MAY HAVE INCUBATED CORONAVIRUS
Dr. Elena Giorgi of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US says people had already looked into the pangolin link with the SARS-COV2 vi
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Jun 2, 20202 min read


RUSSIA BEATS CHINA ON COVID-19 DRUG
Russia will start delivering the drug Avifavir on June 11 to control the COVID-19 infection, Tass reported on May 31, 2020 as it quoted a re
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Jun 2, 20201 min read


CUBAN DOCS USE BIOMODULIN TO STOP COVID-19 AMONG ELDERLY
In the fight against COVID-19, Cuba is implementing drug-based protocols developed for other pathologies, one of which uses Biomodulin T, a
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Jun 1, 20201 min read


ELON MUSK’S SPACEX BLASTS OFF WITH 2 ASTRONAUTS
A rocket ship built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company thundered away from Earth with two Americans on Saturday (May 31, 2020 in Manila) and ushe
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May 31, 20201 min read


TWITTER RAPS US POLICY ON DISCLOSURE OF SOCIAL MEDIA INFO
Twitter Inc, Reddit and a group representing major internet firms have backed two documentary film groups that challenged the Trump administ
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May 31, 20201 min read


MERCK CHIEF CONFIDENT IN DEVELOPING COVID-19 CURE
Merck chief executive officer (CEO) Kenneth Frazier, who developed the Ebola vaccine, is confident that a vaccine can be developed to battle
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May 30, 20202 min read


SOKOR COMPLAINS VS US BAN ON SEMICONDUCTOR SALES TO HUAWEI
South Korea is complaining about the US ban on the sale of computer chips and other products for the 5G network of Huawei, saying it is “una
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May 30, 20201 min read


CANCER, COVID-19 VIRUS A DEADLY MIX, STUDIES SHOW
New studies have shown that the COVID-19 virus is potentially deadly for current and former cancer patients.
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May 30, 20201 min read


EU GOV’TS BAN HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE AS COVID-19 TREATMENT
Member-nations of the European Union (EU) have dumped the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a cure for COVID-19, with medical researchers s
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May 29, 20201 min read
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