After a four-month hiatus due to the current health crisis, the anticipated new season of the Formula One race had finally commenced once again. But the opening of this F1 race before the Austrian Grand Prix, it also included a different take on race as F1 racer and defending champion […]
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Facebook CEO To Meet with Rights Groups Amid Boycott
Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to join a virtual meeting Tuesday with civil rights group Color of Change, and civil society organizations Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The groups have criticized Zuckerberg for failing to stop hate speech from spreading on his […]
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Ad Boycott Continues After Facebook Brushes Off Rights Groups’ Demands
Facebook will continue to face an ad boycott after rights groups leaders called for its extension Tuesday, following their virtual meeting with top-level executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg. MSNBC reported that the rights groups came away from the meeting skeptical of Facebook’s commitment to stop hate […]
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Bubonic Plague Resurfaces in China–Is There Cause for Concern?
Chinese authorities have reported a case of the Bubonic plague in Bayyanur, Inner Mongolia. Health officials diagnosed a Mongolian herdsman with the plague on Sunday after he reportedly consumed a marmot. Marmots are a type of rodent that is known to carry the disease. Local health officials again confirmed the […]
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North Korea blows up office used for talks with South Korea
North Korea has blown up a joint office with South Korea in Kaesong which is used for talks between the two countries. The latest move is an indication that talks between the two nations are deteriorating. South Korea indicated has that the four-story building which is at the border of […]
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One out of every 12 imported products into Europe is a fake – Europol
Spring 2019 – an operation carried out by Europol in the main ports, airports and border posts of Europe allowed the seizure of 550 tonnes of pesticides counterfeit. November 2019 – a joint operation of the European Union and the United States resulted in the seizure of 30,500 domain names […]
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Will the destruction of statues change the perception towards Anti-Racism?
Is this knocking down of the effigy of General Lee, in an Orwellian gesture, erasing the past? Not so simple. First, because the statues gathered in the squares, like the names given to streets and avenues, are not acts of history, but a memory. Statues of slavers, Confederate monuments to […]
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The stock market experienced a downfall amid the pandemic
The stock market has experienced a downfall from 4.5% high shares. These high shares were due to the opening of markets and ease in lockdown restrictions. Over 1800 points were plunged by Dow Jones industrial in March due to the sheer decline. Jason Ware, the chief economist and invest officer, […]
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Oil prices plunge below zero, sending stocks lower
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices plunged below zero on Monday as demand for energy collapses amid the coronavirus pandemic and traders don’t want to get stuck owning crude with nowhere to store it. Stocks were also slipping on Wall Street in afternoon trading, with the S&P 500 down 0.9%, […]
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Italy coronavirus deaths rise by 651 in a day, lifting total death toll to 5,476
ROME – The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has risen by 651 to 5,476, officials said on Sunday, an increase of 13.5% but down on Saturday’s figure when some 793 people died. The total number of cases in Italy rose to 59,138 from a previous 53,578, […]