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Only state investment can revive Britain’s zombie economy
Oct 29, 2020 07:06Britain is sleepwalking into a debt crisis that will undermine its prospects of a sustainable recovery. It’s not the debts of the government that are at issue; it is the monumental amount of borrowing by the private sector, much of it from the Treasury, that will hang like a dead weight on the shoulders of thousands of businesses, possibly for a decade.
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2nd stimulus hopes crushed, causing anger and disbelief in US
Oct 29, 2020 06:08After months of waiting it turns out that the United States will not pass a second fiscal stimulus package until after the election.
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Wall Street sinks 3%, Dow at late July lows as pandemic surges
Oct 29, 2020 05:53US stocks tumbled on Wednesday, with the Dow closing at lows last seen in late July, as coronavirus cases soared globally and investors worried about the possibility of a contested US presidential election next week.
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Boeing posts fourth straight quarterly loss as sales slump
Oct 28, 2020 16:55Boeing has reported its fourth straight quarterly loss on Wednesday as the coronavirus pandemic and 737 MAX grounding hurt sales.
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COVID-19 in Iran: Daily death toll exceeds 400
Oct 28, 2020 10:59The daily death toll from coronavirus infection in Iran exceeded 400 for the first time, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
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Air pollution increases SARS-CoV-2 transmission, it kills half a million babies across globe in 2019
Oct 28, 2020 10:55Evidence from China indicates that higher air pollution could lead to increased transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), leading to more COVID-19 cases.
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Latest on pandemic: Countries move to impose new restrictions as cases surge
Oct 28, 2020 08:49The number of people who have been afflicted with COVID-19 has now passed 44 million around the world, and the number of related fatalities is almost 1.16 million, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
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Iran pays $200ml in extra wages to health staff amid pandemic
Oct 28, 2020 02:40The Iranian government has paid nearly $200 million in extra wages to health workers amid the spread of the coronavirus pandemic as a third wave of the disease is pushing hospitals in the country to the brink.
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Universal mask-wearing would save nearly 130,000 lives by Spring 2021, study finds
Oct 27, 2020 19:12The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington released a model showing that nearly 130,000 people's lives would be saved from now until early Spring 2021 if the U.S. adopted universal mask-wearing.
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Trump’s lawyers want Trump’s judges to limit voting
Oct 27, 2020 18:17The Trump campaign and Republican National Committee (RNC) have pushed one narrative in a raft of nearly identical lawsuits from California to Pennsylvania all tied around limiting mail-in voting. The central theme: claims, without evidence, that widely used mail-in voting would lead to massive voter fraud.