European equities slipped as U.S. futures fluctuated on Thursday as a global rally in equities showed signs of fluctuating after stimulus talks in Washington remained deadslot. The dollar fell before important data on unemployment were available. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index rallied lower on declines in miners and insurers. Aegon …
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Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday named two of his relatives to the new cabinet, further consolidating his family’s grip. The 26 cabinet members include four members of the Rajapaksa family with the president holding the Ministry of Defense, while his older brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, is in …
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The new cluster, which now has 17 cases in total, has asked the country to put its most populous city under lockdown as authorities scramble to track down the source of the outbreak. New Zealand now has 36 active infections, including imported cases. In total, the country has reported 1,238 …
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Businessman Srinivas Gupta unveiled the statue at a domestic party last Friday at his new family home in Koppal, in the southern state of Karnataka. The property had been his late wife Madhavi’s idea – but she died in a car accident in 2017 before the construction work was completed. …
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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 …
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