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The Warriors are destined for a high lottery pick, so why roll Stephen Curry back into the fold before the season ends?

In Georgia, the first case of corona virus was recorded. This was announced at a special briefing by the Minister of Health and Social Protection Yekaterina Tikaradze.According to the Minister, the virus was detected in a citizen of Georgia, a 50-year-old man who arrived from Iran through Azerbaijan. The patient is currently in the infectious diseases hospital. His condition is rated as satisfactory.According to the Minister, the government is doing everything to prevent the ...

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?Ousmane Dembele has been tipped to leave Barcelona this summer, with the Spanish champions ‘open to offers’ according to journalist Guillem Balague. The 22-year-old was signed in the summer of 2017 from Dortmund for north of €100m, following Neymar’s sensational departure for Paris Saint-Germain. Tipped as one of Europe’s hottest young players, the French forward … Continue reading Barcelona ‘Open to Offers’ for Ousmane Dembele This Summer Amid Fitness Woes

A Conservative MP who claimed "many people choose to be on the street" will be given specific responsibility for tackling rough sleeping.

Investors have lost more than $2 trillion in recent days as analysts try to gauge the disease's economic impact.

Daniel Ashurst, 33, has been convicted of manslaughter and jailed for twelve years after he shook his baby daughter Hollie Ashurst so violently she died

A. Colibasanu, Geo. Futures

As is often the case with the European Union, negotiations over the EU’s next long-term budget have so far produced more meetings and debates than concrete solutions. Talks over the 2021-27 budget, referred to within the bloc as the multiannual financial framework, have revealed not only the state of the EU’s internal divisions but also the depth of the problems it currently faces.

With porous borders, creaking hospitals and large illiterate populations, Afghanistan and Pakistan face a potentially devastating health crisis after the new coronavirus erupted in neighbouring Iran. Islamabad has closed official border crossings while Kabul has suspended all travel to the Islamic republic, which has reported 19 deaths and a total of 139 infections -- making it one of the hardest hit countries outside the virus epicentre China. The virus has spread to more than 30 countries... Читать дальше...

Ben Sixsmith, Spectator

Of course, stigma is a problem when it comes to viruses. But it is not ‘stigma’ which has left cities in quarantine

Nick Danforth, Center for Global Policy

In its approach to Syria, Cyprus, and Libya, as well as the United States and perhaps even Russia, Ankara has gambled on assertive policies to advance a range of interests in concrete ways. So far, this strategy has achieved some important short-term results, but it carries serious long-term risks. Specifically, it risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy, whereby Turkey’s

Scientists from Imperial College London have proposed a new regulatory framework for assessing the impact of AI, called the Human Impact Assessment for Technology (HIAT). The researchers believe the HIAT could identify the ethical, psychological and social risks of technological progress, which are already being exposed in a growing range of applications, from voter manipulation to algorithmic sentencing. They based their idea on the Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA), which has been used to... Читать дальше...

A. Kim, Daily Sig.

America’s first trade deal with a sub-Saharan African country is in the works, and the results could be significant.

Jeremy Huai-Che Chiang, The Diplomat

Attempting to gauge public sentiments in Asian countries toward Taiwan and its outreach attempts.

In 1582, Pope Gregory began a campaign to replace Julius Caesar’s widely used calendar with a slightly more accurate one

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana lawmakers are poised to double the fines stores could face for selling smoking or vaping products to anyone younger than 21 years old.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman helped her Minister of State Anurag Thakur duck a question on his alleged hate speech at a press interaction on We

The Montreal mayor denies the call means her proposed Pink Line is on hold, saying the projects should happen simultaneously.

After 11 years of marriage, Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen are taking a walk down memory lane. On Wednesday, the football icon and supermodel rang in more than a decade of being...

Retail sales in 2020 are predicted to increase between 3.5% and 4.1% to more than $3.9 trillion.