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Coronavirus live news: WHO reports record new global cases; Israel first country to reimpose national lockdown | World news 0
- BUSINESS
- September 14, 2020
10.46pm EDT22:46 Asian shares firmed on Monday on renewed hopes for a coronavirus vaccine after AstraZeneca resumed its phase-3 trial though sentiment was still cautious ahead of a big week of central bank meetings in UK, Japan and the United States, Reuters reports. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was up 0.7%, poised
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Coronavirus live news: India suffers most daily deaths in a month as global toll passes 890,000 | World news 0
- BUSINESS
- September 8, 2020
7.03am BST07:03 That’s it from me, Helen Sullivan, for today. Thanks for following along – even if you may be reading by peaking through the fingers covering your eyes. As long as the pandemic rages, we’ll be bringing you the latest: Helen Sullivan (@helenrsullivan) happy six straight months of coronavirus blogging to me September 8,
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Melting of ice sheets could add up to 16 inches to global oceans by 2100 0
- BUSINESS
- September 1, 2020
Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are losing mass at the ‘worst case scenario’ rate predicted by the UN – and could result in sea levels rising by 16 inches by 2100. According to a new study by the University of Leeds, if these rates continue, an additional 16 million people could be exposed to
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the simple switch that could massively cut global carbon emissions 0
- BUSINESS
- August 23, 2020
August 22 is Earth Overshoot Day, which marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. This results from massive consumption of ecological resources and accumulation of waste. A large portion of this comes from heavy industry and the way we build our
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Global business travel will not be killed off by coronavirus – new research 0
- BUSINESS
- August 14, 2020
Global business travel has largely ground to a halt during the pandemic. Experts have been raising the alarm that this is the death of business travel as we know it, arguing that it will be a long time before the virus is really gone and that business people have become used to meetings on the
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Coronavirus live news: Global cases near 18m as Melbourne braces for further lockdown measures | World news 0
- BUSINESS
- August 3, 2020
10.10pm EDT22:10 Josh Taylor Here is the latest on the Stage Four restrictions in Melbourne. Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, said the restrictions have been brought in to get community transmission – cases where the source of the transmission cannot be determined – under control. Andrews said government modelling showed that without these measures, stage three
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