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  US restaurants struggle with surge of diners: survey

  Agence France-Presse . New York | Updated at 12:00am on June 16, 2021

  Americans are dining out in record numbers as pandemic restrictions lift, with restaurants struggling to keep up with demand amid a labour shortage, data released...

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  US fisherman says swallowed, spit out by humpback whale

  Agence France-Presse . New York, United States | Updated at 10:51pm on June 12, 2021

  It sounds like a real-life take on ‘Pinocchio’ -- a US lobster fisherman says he was scooped into the mouth of a humpback whale Friday...

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  NY Times, AP, Reuters, BuzzFeed win Pulitzer

  Agence France-Presse . New York, United States | Updated at 08:12pm on June 12, 2021

  The Pulitzer Prize Board awarded a ‘special citation’ on Friday to the teenager whose video of the murder of George Floyd by a white police...

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  McDonald's says hackers breached data in Taiwan, South Korea

  Agence France-Presse . New York, United States | Updated at 10:46pm on June 11, 2021

  Fast food giant McDonald's on Friday said hackers breached their servers and accessed data from customers in Taiwan and South Korea. The announcement by the...

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  Chinese ride-hailing app Didi files for New York listing

  Agence France-Presse . New York, United States | Updated at 07:46pm on June 11, 2021

  Ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing has filed to list its shares in New York, a high-profile move by a Chinese tech firm in the United States...

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  Global internet outage caused by customer change of setting

  Agence France-Presse . New York, United States | Updated at 11:34pm on June 09, 2021

  A worldwide internet outage affecting major websites was caused by a ‘customer configuration change’ which triggered a ‘bug’ in a key delivery network, the technology...

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  New York plans huge August concert to celebrate post-Covid ‘rebirth’

  Agence France-Presse . New York | Updated at 11:01pm on June 08, 2021

  New York is planning to host a major concert in Central Park in August as a way to celebrate the city’s ‘rebirth’ following the Covid-19...

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  Equities rebound as jobs data quash rate hike fears

  Agence France-Presse . New York | Updated at 10:46pm on June 05, 2021

  Equity markets moved higher while the dollar fell on Friday after tepid job US growth numbers assuaged fears of a rapid reduction in stimulus measures and...

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  Posthumous DMX album a moving coda

  Agence France-Presse . New York | Updated at 11:15pm on May 29, 2021

  The rapper DMX was priming for a career comeback in the months before his shock death, ready to release his first studio album in nearly...

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  Hunting for mini artworks on New York’s streets

  Agence France-Presse . New York | Updated at 11:24pm on May 28, 2021

  Filmmaker Zack Obid trembles with excitement: he has just found a miniature work of art during a treasure hunt that an American artist organizes every...