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  US online sales surge to near-record on ‘Black Friday’

  Agence France-Presse . New York | Updated at 10:02pm on November 29, 2020

  US online sales surged on the traditional ‘Black Friday’ to set the country’s second-highest one-day mark ever as virus-wary Americans shunned in-person shopping, the Adobe...

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  US SC sides with religious groups

  Agence France-Presse . New York | Updated at 12:10am on November 28, 2020

  The US Supreme Court has barred New York from imposing coronavirus restrictions on houses of worship in a ruling likely to be heralded by conservatives...

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  Meghan reveals miscarriage in July

  Agence France-Presse . New York | Updated at 05:02pm on November 25, 2020

  Meghan Markle has revealed she suffered a miscarriage in July this year, writing in the New York Times on Wednesday of the deep grief and...

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  Fitch, Moody’s downgrade South Africa

  Agence France-Presse . New York | Updated at 11:06pm on November 21, 2020

  Ratings agencies Fitch and Moody’s lowered their assessments of South Africa’s financial strength on Friday, saying pandemic had further stifled the heavily indebted country’s economy....

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  Mobile e-com startup Wish files IPO, claims 108m users

  Agence France-Presse . New York | Updated at 11:02pm on November 21, 2020

  The operator of the mobile e-commerce startup Wish filed documents for a share offering Friday, revealing a user base of more than 100 million. The...

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  US airlines to end year with 90,000 fewer workers

  Agence France-Presse . New York | Updated at 10:06pm on November 13, 2020

  Hit with a collapse of demand, US airlines will end the year with the lowest number of workers since at least 1987, 90,000 fewer than...

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  Myanmar polls today

  Agence France-Presse . New York | Updated at 01:19am on November 08, 2020

  UN secretary general Antonio Guterres on Friday expressed hope that November 8 elections in Myanmar would allow for the return of hundreds of thousands of...

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  Goldman Sachs to transfer assets from London to Frankfurt

  Agence France-Presse . New York | Updated at 11:00pm on November 07, 2020

  Goldman Sachs will shift between $40 and $60 billion in assets from London to Frankfurt in preparation for Britain’s divorce from the European Union, a...

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  Trump sons stand by their father’s election claims

  Agence France-Presse . New York | Updated at 10:50pm on November 06, 2020

  While Donald Trump’s political allies remained silent or distanced themselves Thursday from the US president, increasingly alone in his fight against what he says is...

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  US stocks futures rise ahead of Election Day session

  Agence France-Presse . New York | Updated at 08:39pm on November 03, 2020

  Futures for Wall Street stocks were higher Tuesday as voters headed to the polls in the culmination of a long and bitter US presidential campaign....