SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Asian stocks posted their biggest decline in eight sessions, bonds rose and the US dollar held firm on Thursday due to growing cases of coronavirus in the United States and the International Monetary Fund’s downgrade to economic projections reduced confidence in a recovery. FILE PHOTO: Passers-by wearing …
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NEW YORK / WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russia and China will be isolated at the United Nations if they continue on the “path of dystopia” blocking a United States attempt to extend a weapons ban to Iran, the Iranian envoy from the United States said. Brian Hook to Reuters. his formal …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have discovered how the subsurface ocean on Jupiter’s moon Europa may have formed and determined that this vast expanse of water may have supported microbial life in the past. FILE PHOTO: A view of Jupiter’s moon Europa created from images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in …
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Residents and local businesses in a community in Germany’s most populous state that has been forced to return to strict confinement after a coronavirus outbreak at a local slaughterhouse are holding those responsible to account. The Gütersloh district of North Rhine-Westphalia, which has more than 360,000 inhabitants, had its first …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The coronavirus pandemic has caused more extensive and profound damage to economic activity than previously thought, the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday, prompting the institution to further cut its global output forecasts by 2020. The IMF said it now expects 2020 global output to shrink by 4.9%, …
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