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Katerina Sakellaropoulou, Greece's first-ever female President, has been sworn in for a full five-year term. She was sworn in during a public ceremony that involved the minimum number of people and did not engage in handshakes. Sakellaropoulou, a conservative politician, has managed to get support from both conservative and left-wing parties.

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The South Korean government has said that more people within its borders recovered from the virus than got infected this Friday. This is the first indicator that the virus may be slowing down in the country as the government continues to struggle to control the spread. This downwards trend is expected to persist.

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Epic Games, the developers of Fornite, which has been the bestselling game in the world for two years, and also the creators of the Unreal Engine, have acquired a UK-based facial recognition and mapping startup called Cubic Motion, in order to be able to capture much more realistic facial animations for their characters. Cubic Motion's technology was previously featured on the popular God of War and Spiderman game series.

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Following Google's cancellation of I/O and Facebook's cancelation of its F8 developer conference, Microsoft has announced that it will be shutting down the physical event for its 2020 Build developer conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic, instead choosing, like Facebook and Google, to conduct several online events to introduce developers to changes and improvements in the Microsoft ecosystem.

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The Iraqi military has publicly condemned the recent US airstrikes that they claim killed six people. The airstrikes were launched in response to an Iranian backed militia in Iraq that the US blames for a rocket strike that killed two US soldiers. Iraq claimed the airstrikes were a violation of its sovereignty.

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Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that brought blockchain technology to the public eye in 2017 after hitting a historic milestone exchange rate of around 20,000 USD per BTC, has lost most of its regained value over the last week, crashing to as low as 3850 USD per BTC on Luxembourg's Bitstamp exchange, marking a massive 50 percent loss in value over the previous day, which may signal a fall below 1,000 USD.

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Italy, which has become the European country hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, saw a skyrocketing death rate yesterday, with an increase of 23 percent leaving 189 more dead, bringing the total to more than 1,000. As home to one of the oldest populations on earth after Japan, the country is suffering from an increased vulnerability to the coronavirus outbreak, despite tightened restrictions and quarantines.

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More than a decade after Jay Electronica, real name Elpadaro F.Electronica Allah, rose to fame with his 15-minute debut song Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge) in 2007, the artist, who at one point was considered as having the potential to become one of the greatest rappers alive, has finally released his long-awaited debut album A Written Testimony, a joint album with his mentor and publisher Jay Z.

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All three big upcoming League of Legends tournaments will now take place without audiences within closed studios while a Dota 2 major has been postponed altogether. These cancelations are coming after the global coronavirus pandemic spread rapidly over the last few days. Fans who bought tickets will be refunded soon.

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Gold, usually considered a safe haven for investors in times of economic crisis, plunged in value at the Comex in New York and continued falling to hit a one-day low of $1560.40, down by more than $80 from the previous day. 55 million ounces of gold were sold on the market as the price climbed back up beyond $1600 to decline by $70 again.

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The Union of European Football Associations is expected to soon announce the suspension of its current seasons of the Champions League, the European League, and Euro 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has seen several professional football players testing positive for the infection, such as Juventus' Daniele Rugani, forcing teams to quarantine squads and abandon matches.

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The professional American football league XFL was the latest to announce the cancellation of its regular season amid the COVID-19 pandemic, joining all major US sports leagues such as the NCAA, Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, the National Basketball Association, and Major League Soccer in abandoning their current seasons.

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Asian stock markets quickly followed suit as US financial markets entered bear market territory, with South Korea being forced to halt trading due to losses of over 13 percent in a single day. The S&P500 declined by 9.5 percent to mark its worst crash since 1987's infamous Black Monday, with the Dow Jones index suffering a loss of 10 percent, also the worst since 1987.

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The Walt Disney Company has announced that it is going to shut down its Disneyland resort in Anaheim, marking the popular amusement park's first closure since the 9/11 attacks and only its fourth closure in its 65-year life, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The park receives more than 19 million visitors every year and is known as The Happiest Place on Earth.

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English Premier League decided to suspend all matches until 3 April to avoid coronavirus outbreak during matches. Bosses of all 20 clubs met in London headquarters and unanimously decided to take a break until 3 April. Premier League’s management aims to reschedule all the displaced matches when it is safe to do so. Premier League’s chief executive Richard Masters described the situation as “unprecedented”

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French President Emmanuel Macron said that the country will close all schools and universities from Monday amid growing numbers of coronavirus cases. The total number of COVID-19 cases in France crossed 2,200. French health officials said that the number of patients in hospitals is increasing. Macron asked global leaders to join forces to contain the outbreak.

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Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, the wife of Canadian Prime Minister Just Trudeau tested positive for Coronavirus on Thursday after getting mild symptoms. The Prime Minister's office confirmed that Sophie Trudeau is feeling well but will remain in isolation for at least 14 days. Justin Trudeau will isolate himself as well for 14 days. Canada has confirmed 147 cases with one death so far

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As more cases pop up in California and Florida, the home of Disney’s two parks in the United States and visitors continue to enter the resorts, it’s the cast members (the terminology Disney uses to refer to employees) who are left to wonder what happens next. There are more than 1300 confirmed Coronavirus cases in the US. The company has already closed parks in Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong

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Although no festival in the UK has been called off yet, there are concerns. The latest update from the Festival Republic, which puts on events including Reading and Leeds, Wireless, Download, and Latitude, says none of its events will be affected. Currently, Radio 1's Big Weekend, which is due to take place 22-24 May, is also going ahead as planned.

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According to a new report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple could unveil new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models with scissor-switch keyboards. But Kuo thinks Apple will ship updated MacBook models with a scissor-switch keyboard at some point during the second quarter of 2020. Apple could use this opportunity to increase the size of the display of the 13-inch MacBook Pro model as well.

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday that COVID19 is the worst health crisis in a generation as the UK reported around 600 confirmed cases. Boris Johnson said that we are guided by science in everything we do as he kept the option open to cancel all the sporting events. UK’s chief medical officer said that the actions taken by the Government has delayed the virus impact

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A senior Chinese medical adviser has stated that the COVID-19 pandemic could be over by June 2020 if countries and global institutions come together to battle the infection's spread. China's Hubei province, the originating point of the coronavirus, has recorded single-digit cases for the first time since the outbreak began, owing to an almost complete lockdown of Wuhan and its neighboring regions.

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American online retail giant Amazon has joined Uber, Salesforce, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Apple in committing to pay workers quarantined due to COVID-19 paid leave for up to two weeks and has established a relief fund with a 25 million USD contribution to benefit its delivery service partners and drivers, as well as contract-basis employees and Amazon Flex participants.

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Founded by Sasha Haco, who previously worked with Stephen Hawking on black holes, Unitary is an artificial intelligence content moderation startup that aims to detect dangerous or malicious content automatically from the hundreds of hours of video uploaded to the internet every minute. Unitary just raised 1.3 million GBP in seed funding from Rocket Internet's GFC, Jane VC, SGH Capital, and several anonymous angel investors.

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At an emergency COBRA meeting chaired by Conservative UK PM Boris Johnson, the UK is expected to announce that it is giving up the battle to contain the spread of the coronavirus in the country, with 8 UK citizens dead and 460 infected, but instead to aim to delay the spread of the COVID-19 infection into the summer months, providing time to test new drugs to fight the infection.

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