RAF Typhoon jets intercept Ryanair jet at Stansted after 'suspicious object' found in plane toilet
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A 34-year-old man from Kuwait and a 48-year-old man from Italy were detained at the London airport, Essex Police confirmed.

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Portugal on the brink of being added back onto quarantine list and needs drop in number of cases
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On Friday, Portugal reported its highest new daily virus figure for seven weeks, with 401 cases detected and is now an ‘amber’ nation, meaning it is approaching the UK threshold for quarantine.

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Qatar crisis returns to top UN court
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The three-year-old crisis pitting Qatar against several Middle East nations returns to the UN's top court this week with hearings in a case between Doha and the United Arab Emirates.

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Chinese investors snap up Hong Kong property as new security law deters foreigners
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Mainland Chinese investors are scouring Hong Kong’s commercial property market for bargains after prices plunged 30%, signalling a new wave of demand following anti-government protests last year that kept a lid on investment activity. Property agents expect the influx of Chinese capital, which has helped Hong Kong become one of the world’s most expensive property […]

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China Just Called Trump's Bluff on TikTok
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(Bloomberg Opinion) — Imagine a bidder wanting to buy KFC, but being told the deal might not include the Colonel’s 11 secret herbs and spices. That’s effectively what Beijing has told the list of U.S. companies keen to purchase short-video app TikTok: The key ingredients may be out of reach. At first it looked like the Trump administration had […]

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'Mr. Yen' Expectes Abe's Successor to Carry on Abenomics
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Aug.30 — Eisuke Sakakibara, Japan’s former top currency official known as “Mr. Yen,” talks about Abenomics, which are the policies of the country’s outgoing prime minister, and who he expects to become Shinzo Abe’s successor. Sakakibara speaks with Rishaad Salamat and Yvonne Man on “Bloomberg Markets: Asia.”

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Buffett’s Berkshire Wagers $6 Billion on Japan Trading Firms
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(Bloomberg) — Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. bought stakes in five of Japan’s biggest trading companies, adding to the billionaire investor’s wager on the commodities sector and marking one of his largest-ever forays into Asia’s second-largest economy.Berkshire acquired the stakes of about 5% in Itochu Corp., Marubeni Corp., Mitsubishi Corp., Mitsui & Co. and Sumitomo […]

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Black Triangle Sighting in Fredonia, New York on 2020-08-17 20:43:00 – Saw a "falling" dark object appear out of nowhere with a trail and then went out of frame.
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I was filming the lighting in the distance and caught a dark object appear out of nowhere and then it dissapeard out of frame. at first i thought it was a bird but it has a trail and is moving very quickly. also seems large for the percieved distance. it appears at 0:03. coordinates video […]

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Abbott Expanding Its Covid-19 Test To Asymptomatic People- Report
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Abbott Laboratories (ABT) is now holding trials to try and expand its rapid Covid-19 test to people who show no symptoms of the virus, ABT’s CEO Robert Ford has revealed to CNBC.“We are working on developing data for asymptomatic claims, so we are running our clinical trial, and we’ll eventually have data to be able to support that,” […]

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Gilead’s Remdesivir Now Authorized For All Hospitalized Covid-19 Patients
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Gilead Science’s (GILD) investigational antiviral Veklury (remdesivir) has now received expanded Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the FDA to treat all hospitalized patients with COVID-19. Previously the treatment was only authorized for patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19.“As we learn more about COVID-19 and we further establish the efficacy and safety profile of Veklury, we see […]

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