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US reported at least 3,323,432 cases of coronavirus and at least 135,272 people have died, according to Johns Hopkins University's tally of cases. On Monday, Johns Hopkins reported 18,490 new cases and 67 reported deaths. The totals include cases from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and other US territories, as well as repatriated cases

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Disney heiress Abigail Disney is among the millionaires calling for governments to impose higher taxes on the wealthy to help fund the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. “Tax us. Tax us. Tax us,” an open letter from the group calling itself “Millionaires for Humanity” read. The 83 signatories on the letter also included Abigail’s brother Tim, Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield, as well as British movie director, Richard Curtis

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai said on Monday that it plans to invest $10 billion in India in the next five to seven years as the company looks to help accelerate the adoption of digital services. “We’ll do this through a mix of equity investments, partnerships, and operational, infrastructure, and ecosystem investments. This is a reflection of our confidence in the future of India and its digital economy,” Pichai said

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South Africa has reintroduced a ban on alcohol sales and imposed a nighttime curfew as it looks to curtail a rapid surge in new coronavirus cases. In an address to the nation Sunday, President Cyril Ramaphosa also announced that masks are now mandatory in public, as the number of confirmed cases in the country exceeded 276,000. The curfew will be in effect between 9pm and 4am local time from Monday

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Incumbent Polish President Andrzej Duda has narrowly beaten challenger Rafal Trzaskowski in Sunday's presidential vote. The National Electoral Commission said Mr. Duda had won 51.2% of the votes. It is Poland's slimmest presidential election victory since the end of communism in 1989. One of the major issues of the election was the future of the country's strained relations with the European Union

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Donald Trump’s trade advisor Peter Navarro dubbed TikTok’s new CEO Kevin Mayer, an “American puppet” for working at the Chinese-owned social media app, in an interview with Fox Business. Navarro also used the interview to double down on accusations that Chinese apps are gathering data on Americans and handing that over to Beijing. He also said to expect “strong action” from President Donald Trump on TikTok and other Chinese apps

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Kelly Preston, the actress, and wife of John Travolta has died aged 57. Travolta posted on Instagram: "My beautiful wife Kelly has lost her two-year battle with breast cancer. She fought a courageous fight with the love and support of so many." The couple had been married for nearly 29 years. Preston's career included roles in Twins, From Dusk Till Dawn, Jerry Maguire, and The Cat in the Hat

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Qatar Airways makes it mandatory for Pakistani passengers to show a negative test result within 72 hours of their flight. The new measure will take effect on Monday, a spokesperson told Bloomberg via email. The airline operates in four Pakistani cities currently - Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, and Peshawar. Pakistan has confirmed more than 250,000 infections and 5,266 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University

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Chairman of the New York-based office space sharing company WeWork, the company is set to see positive cash flow and profits in 2021, a year ahead of schedule, company chairman Marcelo Claure said in an interview with the Financial Times published Sunday. “Everybody thought WeWork was mission impossible. And now, a year from now, you are going to see WeWork to basically be a profitable venture ” Claure said

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Indian film industry got stunned after several of Bollywood's biggest stars were sent to hospital after testing positive for coronavirus. Superstar Amitabh Bachchan got admitted to Nanavati Hospital after he and his son Abhishek Bachchan were both tested positive late Saturday evening. And soon after Abhishek Bachchan's wife, the heralded actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, also entered the hospital. The couple's daughter tested positive for Covid-19 too

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Florida on Sunday reported 15,299 confirmed coronavirus cases, breaking the single-day record of any U.S. state since the pandemic hit the nation, including New York at the peak of its outbreak. The surge in infections brings Florida’s total cases to 269,811, higher than the totals of several major nations with much larger populations such as Spain, Italy and France among others

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President Donald Trump has worn a mask in public for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The president was visiting the Walter Reed military hospital outside Washington, where he met wounded soldiers and health care workers. "I've never been against masks but I do believe they have a time and a place," he said as he left the White House

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India’s Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday that the entire world is witnessing the success of India in handling coronavirus. His comments come as the country’s total number of COVID-19 cases inched closer to 850,000 with the biggest single-day jump of over 28,000 cases. He also praised security forces, saying that they are playing a huge role in India’s fight against the spread of coronavirus

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Microsoft Founder Bill Gates said that Covid-19 medication and future vaccines should be distributed to people who need them the most and not to “the highest bidder.” “If we just let drugs and vaccines go to the highest bidder, instead of to the people and the places where they are most needed, we’ll have a longer, more unjust deadlier pandemic,” Gates said in a remote conference

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Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani is not in support of the complete economic shutdown. President called for big gatherings such as weddings and wakes to be banned to stem a rise in coronavirus infections, but insisted the country's economy had to stay open. Shortly after Rouhani’s televised speech, a police official in Tehran announced the closure of all wedding and mourning venues in the capital until further notice

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel targets global leadership and specifically US President Donald Trump over the coronavirus approach. "As we are experiencing firsthand, you cannot fight the pandemic with lies and disinformation any more than you can fight it with hate or incitement to hatred," Merkel said in a speech. "The limits of populism and denial of basic truths are being laid bare."

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A mass protest in Mali against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita descended into violence on Friday as protesters blocked main thoroughfares, attacked the parliament, and stormed the premises of a state broadcaster. One person was killed during the protest in the capital Bamako, officials said

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A diplomatic spat erupted between Malaysia and Al Jazeera over COVID-19 might affect ties between two Muslim countries – Malaysia and Qatar. The trigger for the row was Al Jazeera‘s 26-minute documentary ‘Locked up in Malaysia’s Lockdown‘, which depicted how undocumented migrant workers are being rounded-up in a military-style crackdown and detained in camps on the pretext of implementing a coronavirus-induced lockdown

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Tim Clark, The President of Dubai's flagship carrier Emirates airline says that the airline plans to cut 10-20% of its workforce and that it was burning up to $1 million cash an hour at the worst of the COVID-led global restrictions that saw a sudden and exhaustive freeze in air travel across almost all regions of the world. Clark made these comments in an interview with CNN's Richard Quest

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According to the data compiled by Bloomberg Billionaire Index, India's richest man and Chairman of Reliance Industries is now worth $68.3 billion, surpassing Buffett's $67.9 billion as of Thursday. Shares of Ambani's Indian conglomerate have more than doubled since a low in March as its digital unit got more than $15 billion in investments from companies including Facebook Inc. and Silver Lake

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Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith came together for a special Friday edition of her "Red Table Talk" show on Facebook to share their side of the controversy surrounding her relationship with singer August Alsina. During their "Red Table Talk" chat Smith pushed his wife to be clear about what her relationship had been with Alsina. "I got into an entanglement with August," Pinkett Smith said

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Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party extended its unbroken rule in Friday’s election, but its vote share slipped near a record low as the main opposition party secured 10 seats, the most ever held by any opposition party. Having held power since independence in 1965, the PAP had been widely expected to win and carry Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. PAP’s popular vote fell to 61%, down from 70% in 2015

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Nations and companies around the world are being forced to pick a side between the US-China technology war. The latest casualty is TikTok, a popular video app with more than a billion users. The app is owned by a Chinese company Bytedance. TikTok was blocked in India after a heated border clash with China. Then, on Monday, US authorities said they would look at banning the app

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President Donald Trump said Friday that he isn’t thinking about a possible next stage of the U.S. trade deal with China, adding that the relationship between the two nations has been “severely damaged” by the pandemic. Asked if that friction meant “phase two” of the U.S.-China trade deal would no longer happen, Trump said he wasn’t even thinking about it and that he had many other things on his mind

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American e-commerce giant Wayfair that sells furniture, began trending on social media on Friday after thousands of people took to Twitter to indulge in a conspiracy theory, accusing Wayfair of child trafficking. The theory started after people noticed that the company was charging exorbitant prices for items like storage cabinets and throw pillows, and although all of the items appeared identical they had different names written on the item descriptions

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