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According to the agency, “There were 5.7 million fewer people in employment in the EU by spring 2020 than at the end of 2019,” with the jobless rate across the 27-nation bloc increasing from 6.6 percent to 6.7 percent over the same period. In the 12 months leading up to …

Bitcoin fell nearly 12 percent in 24 hours to trade below $45,000 on Friday, according to data from CoinDesk. By dropping to this level, the digital coin shaved over 20 percent off its price this week, which it started close to its record of $58,000, marking the worst slump since March …

The incident happened on Monday near a Sonic Drive-In restaurant in the central part of the New Mexico city, police reported. Three officers were “conducting a welfare check” on a driver when they deemed it necessary to take the man into custody. Eyewitness footage of the incident published by local …

“Iran has not been and is not after nuclear weapons,” said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh on Monday, as he rebuked the remarks of White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.  “We advise the US to take a lesson from four years of Iran’s resistance and Trump’s maximum failure …

By deciding to trigger Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol on Friday, the EU attempted to stop vaccines moving from the Union to the UK – which, unlike the EU, has enjoyed a speedy inoculation rollout – through the perceived backdoor of Northern Ireland. The EU reversed its plan after …

The steepest decline was registered in the first three months of 2020, when global smartphone shipments declined around 20 percent year-on-year. The market also saw a double digit drop in the second quarter of the year. The decline narrowed to single digits in the July-September period, before the market finally …

The value of the cryptocurrency market was $932.20 billion as of 8:10 GMT, down from $1.1 trillion a day earlier, according to Coinmarketcap. The world’s largest cryptocurrency, bitcoin, collapsed by over 17 percent from a day earlier to $34,654.39. The second-biggest crypto, ether, was down by more than 20 percent …

Dr. Hossein Sadrzadeh, a hematology oncology fellow at Boston Medical Center, was given the drug on Christmas Eve. The health care worker, who has a severe shellfish allergy, said his heart began to race after taking the vaccine. Initially, he thought his increased heart rate was due to anxiety he …

The already-popular tourist destination near Bethlehem has been undergoing excavation for the past 13 years, following the discovery of Herod’s grave.  © MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP Archaeologists believe Herod decided to bury his palace near the end of his life, and this decision has paid huge dividends for the archaeological …

In an  opinion piece I wrote for RT last month, I predicted that, because both the Republican and Democratic parties had staked out positions vis-à-vis the 2020 presidential election “ostensibly founded on the basis of constitutional law,” they would “claim that the election is a matter of survival for the …