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Poor Countries Have No Vaccines, WHO Pleads For Doses
There are no doses of Covid-19 vaccines for the poorest of the countries even while the rich ones are opening up societies and are vaccinating the young population who are not at any great risk from the disease said the… Read More ›
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Nike Forecasts Boom In Online Sales And Post-Lockdown Demand
The sportswear giant Nike Inc forecast better than expected fiscal full-year sales as the company showed confidence on the prospects of its online business as well as higher demand with easing of lockdowns. The company is also banking on the… Read More ›
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Insurers Unwilling To Cover For Jeff Bezos’ 2021 Space Odyssey
Insurance companies of the United States and elsewhere are unwilling to take the risk of insuring the flight into space of space tourists even though the most outlandish of risks have previously been covered by them. But now they are… Read More ›
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Honda Depending On New Civic Hatchback For Developing More Efficient Cars
Japan’s Honda Motor Co is hopeful that its all-new model – that of its latest Civic hatchback designs, will turn out to become the foundation for the company to develop and build cars more efficiently. The Civic hatchback designs were… Read More ›
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A Third Of Mainstream Investment Firms Believe Crypto Is ‘Rat Poison’, Shows JPMorgan Survey
A survey conducted by JPMorgan found that only 10 per cent of the institutional investment firms who participated in the survey trade in cryptocurrencies and almost half them have described this emerging digital asset class as “rat poison” or have… Read More ›
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Apple Daily, Pro-Democracy Newspaper Of Hong Kong, To Shut Down Under Government Pressure
Within hours of the Hong Kong police arresting another of its employee for allegedly breaching the controversial national security law, the embattled Hong Kong based pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily said that it will stop all its operations starting on Wednesday… Read More ›
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UNESCO Recommends Putting Great Barrier Reef On The ‘In Danger’ List
According to a recommendation from officials of the United Nations, it is imperative that the Great Barrier Reef needs to put on to a list of world heritage sites that are classified as to be “in danger”, while also prodding… Read More ›
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Chinese Banks Directed To Stop Supporting Cryptocurrency By The Country’s Regulators
Chinese authorities have directed banks and payments platforms to not provide any more support to digital currency transactions as the country clamps down further on crypto currencies. This latest direction was preceded by an order on Friday for shutting down… Read More ›
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Combined-Antibody Therapies Found Effective Against Covid-19 Variants, Says New Study
The Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis reported on Monday that a cocktail of two types of antibodies used as a therapy for Covid-19 was found to be working well against a wide range of variants of the… Read More ›
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Britain Starts Talks To Potentially Join The Trans-Pacific Trade Deal CPTPP
Negotiations for joining a trans-Pacific trade deal was started by Britain as it views the deal as crucial for its to end its dependence on the European Union in the post-Brexit era and shift towards markets that are geographically more… Read More ›
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