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  • Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa revokes state of emergency

    Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa revokes state of emergency0

    Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa late Tuesday night revoked the state of emergency he had declared on April 1 with immediate effect in his island nation. In a gazette notification no 2274/10 issued on Tuesday night, the president said he has withdrawn the emergency rule ordinance which gave security forces sweeping powers to curb any

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  • SpaceX Ready To Retry Launching NASA’s Next Space Station Crew

    SpaceX Ready To Retry Launching NASA’s Next Space Station Crew0

    Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX was ready to try again at sending NASA’s next long-duration crew of the International Space Station to orbit on Thursday, about 72 hours after a first attempt was scrubbed due to a clogged filter in the launch system. Two NASA astronauts will be joined by a Russian cosmonaut and an

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  • South Korea Dec Factory Activity Weakens on Demand Slump, Trucker Strike – PMI

    South Korea Dec Factory Activity Weakens on Demand Slump, Trucker Strike – PMI0

    South Korea’s factory activity shrank for a sixth consecutive month in December, a business survey showed on Monday, as the global economic downturn and a local truckers’ strike led to the worst slump in demand in 2-1/2 years. The S&P Global (NYSE:SPGI) purchasing managers’ index (PMI) for South Korea manufacturers fell to a seasonally-adjusted 48.2

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  • Soils of War: The Toxic Legacy For Ukraine’s Breadbasket

    Soils of War: The Toxic Legacy For Ukraine’s Breadbasket0

    When Ukraine recaptured Kherson in November, Andrii Povod returned to find his grain farm in ruins. Two tractors were missing, most of the wheat was gone and all 11 buildings used to store crops and machinery had been bombed and burned. The farm bears the scars of Russian shelling and unexploded ordnance riddles the fields

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  • Six Pacific Countries At High Risk Of Debt Distress – World Bank

    Six Pacific Countries At High Risk Of Debt Distress – World Bank0

    Six Pacific countries are at a high risk of debt distress in part due to government spending to respond to the COVID-19 crisis, the World Bank said in a report on Thursday. The report, titled Raising Pasifika, said fiscal consolidation was needed in Kiribati, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Samoa, Tonga

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  • Silvergate’s planned liquidation fuels another crypto rout

    Silvergate’s planned liquidation fuels another crypto rout0

    one of the biggest banks in the cryptocurrency industry, said on Wednesday it was planning to wind down operations and liquidate voluntarily Shares of crypto-related companies fell on Thursday, as the bank’s collapse sparked a crisis of confidence in the industry. Silvergate shares were down 26% while peer Signature Bank (NASDAQ:SBNY) and former Silvergate partner

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