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Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has decided to task ex-chief of staff and Benjamin Netanyahu’s main rival Benny Gantz with forming a government, that is after he receives the 61 seats needed to do so. Blue and White party chief Benny…
The Finnish government has declared a national emergency over the spread of the virus, banning gatherings of more than ten people and closing public institutions. A $5.6 billion support package has also been launched. The number of people infected with…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 fell 12.9 and 12 percent, respectively, earlier, hitting their worst numbers since the “Black Monday” stock market crash of 1987, with the impact felt across the entire global economy starting from Hong…
On 12 March, the New York Stock Exchange closed the day with the DJIA index 2,352.60 points in the red, and the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite saw 260.74 and 750.25 point losses, respectively. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin…
Earlier on Thursday, a US judge ordered a temporary halt to the Pentagon-Microsoft contract related to the Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud-computing project. The US Department of Defence has signalled readiness to rethink its decision pertaining to the Pentagon’s…
This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. When artificial intelligence researcher Marc Faddoul joined TikTok a few days ago, he saw something concerning: When…
