In a video call on Wednesday, Merkel told state premiers that she was dropping the five-day lockdown, which would have closed all businesses, with supermarkets only permitted to operate for one day during the period. The planned restrictions also prohibited private gatherings of more than five adults from two different …
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“Although retail buying was portrayed as the main driver of the extreme price rally experienced by some stocks, the actual picture may be much more nuanced,” JP Morgan global quantitative and derivatives strategy analyst Peng Cheng wrote this week, in a research note addressed to the bank’s clientele. The prevailing …
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The otherwise normal star KIC 8462852, better known as Boyajian’s Star, is slightly larger and hotter than the Sun and sits around 1,480 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. The new breakthrough suggests that the star has a binary companion that could be contributing to its unexplained flickering. The …
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On Wednesday, the now-grown child actor tweeted his support for “digitally replacing” Trump’s brief appearance in the sequel to his hit ‘Home Alone’ with an image of Culkin himself as a 40-year-old. While Culkin replied “Sold” to a fan’s suggestion that Trump be replaced with an adult Culkin, he also …
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In the article headlined “NYC medic helped ‘make ends meet’ with racy OnlyFans side gig,” the Post exposed the medic’s identity by using her photo as the featured image and naming her despite her requests to remain anonymous. OnlyFans, a popular subscription service, allows people to make money often by …
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Over the last nine months, the 651 billionaires who call the US home have increased their wealth by a whopping $1.06 trillion, according to a report published Tuesday by Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies. Far from being negatively impacted by the pandemic-related economic shutdowns, the …
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“Mr. President, if you grant only one act of clemency during your time in office, please: Free Julian Assange,” Snowden tweeted. “You alone can save his life.” The request came as Assange sits in a UK prison awaiting a judge’s ruling, scheduled for January, on his extradition to the US …
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The Islamist radical, who killed four people in a shooting attack on Monday, would still be serving his sentence in prison, had he not deceived the deradicalization program overseen by the Austrian Justice Ministry, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer revealed during a press conference. Nehammer said the fact that such a …
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Turkey’s presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin took to Twitter on the heels of fresh clashes over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh territory. The senior official made clear that Ankara will side with Azerbaijan – a nation whose language and culture are close to those of Turkey – in the renewed conflict. “We strongly …
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Upgraded based on the combat operations in Syria, the Russian attack helicopter Ka-52M. able, according to some, easily deal with a whole tank battalion, made its first flight, which means that these combat vehicles will soon start to arrive on arms of the Russian army. “The modernized Ka-52M “alligator” …
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