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Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Tesla CEO Elon Musk urged people to be wary when investing in cryptocurrencies Friday as his upcoming appearance on Saturday Night Live spurred investors to pile into ‘joke’ cryptocurrency dogecoin this week, leaving it the fourth most valuable cryptocurrency as its value soared to new record highs. Elon…
Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed is conscious after life-saving surgery, his family said on Saturday, as police made two arrests in connection with a blast they said was being treated as a terror attack.Nasheed, the president of the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party and the current parliament speaker, was critically injured after a bomb exploded as…
Chadian security forces fired tear gas to disperse protesters who took to the streets of the capital N’Djamena on Saturday to protest against a military takeover that followed the death of President Idriss Deby on the battlefield last month.On Friday the transitional military government, led by Deby’s son Mahamat Idriss Itno, had banned the protest…
Pope Francis on Saturday supported waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines, backing a proposal by U.S. President Joe Biden that has been rebuffed by some European nations, including Germany.In a speech to a global fundraising concert to promote fair access to vaccines, the pope said the world was infected with the “virus of individualism”.”A…
2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Tips, money collected from a customer donation fund and a last paycheck for employees laid off from Farley’s East cafe, that closed due to the financial crisis caused by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), sits on a counter at the cafe in Oa 2/2 By Koh Gui Qing and Pete Schroeder…
2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Council of Economic Advisers member Jared Bernstein speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 5, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque 2/2 By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden reacted on Friday to a disappointing April jobs report by saying the…
Washington Capitals forward Tom Wilson said he had reached out to New York Rangers winger Artemi Panarin after injuring him in a Monday-night scuffle that prompted outrage across the National Hockey League (NHL) and was ready to move on from the incident.Wilson, who has been suspended five times for violent acts, tossed Panarin like a…
The death toll from a police raid on a drug gang in a poor Rio de Janeiro neighborhood on Thursday has risen to 28, civil police said on Friday, the deadliest operation ever carried out by the security forces in the Brazilian city.The bodies of three more victims removed from the favela on Friday were…
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether financial technology companies including Atlanta-based Kabbage Inc may have erred while distributing billions of dollars in pandemic aid to struggling small businesses, three people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.The investigation, led by the Justice Department’s civil division, is examining whether Kabbage and other fintech companies…
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