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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is conducting military exercises to test its readiness for combat amid clashes between its ally Azerbaijan and Armenian forces, Russia’s Defense Minister told his Azeri counterpart on Saturday. FILE PHOTO: Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu awaits a meeting of the Organizing Committee for Pobeda (Victoria) at …

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Investors using the stock trading app for financial services company Robinhood seem to be feeling the magic. More than 622,000 of them own shares of Disney (NYSE: DIS), according to Robinhood data, making it the fourth most popular share in its users’ portfolios. After the coronavirus pandemic forced Disney to …

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned that the world is at a “breaking point” and calls for a new model of global governance to address inequalities exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. During Nelson Mandela’s annual online conference on Saturday, Guterres said the pandemic “has been compared to an x-ray, …

This article is part of the Harvard Medical School. continuous coverage of medicine, biomedical research, medical education, and policies related to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and COVID-19 disease. Blood type is not associated with a severe worsening of symptoms in people who tested positive for COVID-19, report researchers at the Harvard …