Shares of Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, + 2.64% rose 2.65% to $ 3,162.24 on Wednesday, proving to be a very positive trading position for the stock, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, + 1.40% rising 1.40% to 3,380.35 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, + 1.04% increasing 1.05% to 27,976.84. …
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Belarusian opposition leader Lukashenko’s tactical victim | World news
it looked like a hostage video. Reading from a piece of paper, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the opposition leader, told supporters in an immersed voice not to take part in mass protests in Belarus or “endanger their lives”. Hours later, she was in Lithuania, implying that she had issued an ultimatum: “God …
Read More »House Democrats demand postal service chiefs back changes prior to election day
Chamber member Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., And 174 other Democrats in the House signed a letter sent Wednesday to the new Postmaster General demanding that the agency reverse operating changes they claim it post-in vote on November 3 will hamper. “It is always essential that the Postal Service can deliver mail …
Read More »More than half of Mumbai’s slum dwellers may have had Covid-19. Here’s the reason that herd immunity could still go a long way
Scientists believe that coronavirus recovery is likely to leave a person with some immunity, but it is not clear how strong it is or how long it will last. Re-immunity is the idea that a disease ceases to spread once a population becomes immune – and is appealing because, in …
Read More »Investigators unlock secrets of the past with new international standard for carbon data
Credit: University of Sheffield Radiocarbon dating is set to become more accurate than ever after an international team of scientists improved the technique for assessing the age of historical objects. The team of researchers at the universities of Sheffield, Belfast, Bristol, Glasgow, Oxford, St Andrews and Historic England, plus international …
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