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The US Defence Department has sent Congress a request to move nearly $4 billion from the American military budget to build Trump's border wall with Mexico. Democrat politicians strongly oppose this decision, calling it 'misguided and dangerous' and the request even received some opposition from a number of top Republicans.

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As Harvey Weinstein's rape trial steadily comes to a close, his lawyer, during her closing argument decided to go on the offensive. She attacked the credibility of the media and his accusers, claiming 'they couldn't keep anything straight' and that all sex between them and Weinstein was consensual. She even claimed that some of the witnesses were lying.

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Golf superstar Tiger Woods recently paid tribute to Basketball legend Kobe Bryant during a golf tournament. At the eighth hole (Kobe's number) he threw his ball to his caddy with one-handed basketball like shot. Woods later spoke about Bryant during an interview, talking about their friendship and his tragic demise.

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Valve has announced that their new revolutionary virtual reality game 'Half-Life: Alyx' will be released on March 23rd. Many are speculating that the game may be the most ambitious virtual reality project to date and may change how the technology is used. Fans have been clamoring for a new Half-Life game for decades.

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Adam Sussman, a former executive at athletics and footwear company Nike with over 22 years of experience in the gaming industry, having worked for Zynga, Disney and EA, has now been appointed President of Epic Games, developer of Fortnite, which has remained the world's bestselling game for two consecutive years. Epic Games' new store has also recently emerged as a strong rival to Steam's online store.

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In a deal that has now successfully passed through the UK's competition regulations, Google and its parent company Alphabet have purchased big-data analytics company Looker Data Sciences in a 2.6 billion USD all-cash deal. Looker's analytics tool, which allows users to visualize large datasets without writing complex scripts, will work in tandem with Google Cloud's BigQuery tool which specialized in handling large datasets.

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Emily Miles, chief of the UK's Food Standards Agency, has stated that oils, snacks, and drinks containing cannabis may be taken off the shelves as soon as next year since none of the products currently available have been tested for harmful effects, and some may contain harmful ingredients or illegal amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis.

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government is seeing major changes after successfully passing Brexit legislation, with Sajid Javid being the latest minister to step down due to Johnson's demands. Javid stated that Johnson asked him to sack all his ministerial aides and employ certified Level 10 special advisers, which Javid starkly refused to do, choosing to step down instead. He will be replaced by former junior housing minister Rishi Sunak.

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Flip, an employee messaging service based out of Stuttgart, Germany has successfully raised 3.6 million EUR, almost 4 million USD, from investing firms LEA Partners and Cavalry Ventures, and several others. Flip capitalizes on the rising trend of workplace-specific messaging apps such as Threema and Staffbase to offer a messaging service that keeps all relevant employees in a project or company informed of progress in a legally compliant manner.

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After Facebook announced its new dating feature for users in mid-2018, it went on to test the product in Colombia and gradually started adding other countries to the roster, facing a 5 billion USD fine for its US launch when investigators found severe privacy lapses. Now its dating feature launch in Europe has also been blocked after Facebook failed to comply with scheduled privacy checks in the required time period.

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The Global System for Mobile Communications Association, GSMA for short, has canceled this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona due to rising alarm over the coronavirus outbreak. The MWC is the largest mobile trade show in the world and receives more than 200,000 attendees from all over the globe. GSMA was forced to cancel the event after major companies like Amazon, Facebook and LG pulled out of the event.

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With Democratic nomination candidates Colorado Senator Michael Bennett and former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick joining tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang in withdrawing from the race to win the Democratic nomination for the 2020 presidential elections, three candidates have now ended their campaigns, leaving only eight candidates still in the running led by New Hampshire primary winner Bernie Sanders, and Mayor Pete Buttigieg in second place.

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Star couple Sophie Turner, who played Sansa in Game of Thrones, and Joe Jonas of the pop band Jonas Brothers are expecting their first child. The two started dating in November 2016 and have been married twice since then, with their first wedding a secret Vegas affair, and the second an elegant public wedding in a chateau in southern France during July.

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Jeff Bezos, the 56-year-old founder and CEO of retail giant Amazon, one of the most valuable companies in the world, recently completed his purchase of the prestigious Warner estate in Beverly Hills for 165 million USD, the most expensive property sale in Beverly Hills history. The Warner estate was built for media mogul Jack Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers, and features a luxurious mansion built over nine acres.

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Japan confirmed the first death from the deadly Coronavirus as an 80-year old lady died on Thursday. Total deaths crossed 1,350 as the number of infected people reached 60,000 with most cases from mainland China. Singapore confirmed 8 new cases from the virus outbreak. European health ministers gathered for a common response against Coronavirus.

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The Italian population is shrinking and the diminishing birth rate is a big threat to the future of the country, Italian President Sergio Mattarella said on Tuesday. According to the National statistics agency, there were only 435,000 births in 2019, the lowest level ever recorded. The total number of deaths reached 647,000. Many other European countries are facing a similar issue.

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NASA plans to reach the South Pole of the moon by 2024 and for that, the agency will be accepting applications for its next class of astronauts from March 2. Its next class of Artemis Generation astronauts will be a part of the agency's exploration efforts to eventually send people to Mars by mid-2030s

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Japan's Nikkei 225, Australia's ASX 200 and South Korea's Kospi held this week's gains despite the coronavirus concerns. Cruise operators and hotels posted solid gains as traders are feeling less worried about the economic impact of the deadly virus. Brent crude oil gained more than 3% this week to close above $55.50 a barrel.

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Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped more than 200 points to reach a record high at 29,476 following the news of a drop in Coronavirus cases. S&P 500 and Nasdaq both jumped more than 0.5% to reach the levels of 3,375 and 9,704 respectively. Strong corporate earnings are playing a key role in recent jump and the aggregate earnings are beating the expectations by 5.2% this quarter so far.

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Pakistan's anti-terrorism court has sentenced Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the leader of a prominent militant group, the Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the alleged mastermind behind the 2008 Mumbai terrorist assault that left 160 dead, to five and a half years in jail for terrorism financing, fulfilling longstanding demands from the Indian and United States administrations.

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Professor Sir Ian Diamond, the designated national statistician of the UK and former vice-chancellor at the University of Aberdeen, has stated that the UK's upcoming national census in 2021 might be its last census ever, spelling the end of a 200-year-old institution. Diamond says the census will soon be replaced by digital alternatives for gathering enormous amounts of data about the country's citizens, which would be much more cost-effective.

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A photograph taken by Sam Rowley, of two black mice fighting over a morsel of food on the platform of the London Underground, recently went viral on social media and ended up netting Rowley the LUMIX People's Choice award for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Rowley stated he waited flat on his stomach on the platform for five nights before capturing the photograph he wanted.

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Reuters announced today that the newly formed Reuters Fact Check unit and online blog will be paid by Facebook to identify and limit the spread of fake news and misinformation on the social media website. A four-person team will review user posts and headlines from Facebook and update the Reuters Fact Check blog, flagging fake news and letting Facebook limit its spread in users' feeds.

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Raphael Coleman, a beloved child actor in the 2005 movie Nanny McPhee starring Emma Thompson, has died aged 25 after fatally collapsing while on a run. Coleman pursued zoology in his youth and became a member of the environmental activist movement Extinction Rebellion. According to Coleman's mother, he passed out during the trip due to existing health problems and could not be resuscitated in time.

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Actor in popular TV show Empire Jussie Smollett has been indicted for the second time by a grand jury in Cook County, Illinois, for allegedly paying his stunt trainers from Empire to fake a racial attack against him, for which Smollett filed four separate police reports in January 2019. The special prosecutor assigned to the case has revealed that Smollett is scheduled to be arraigned on February 24.

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