Daily Archives: July 14, 2020

China hits back at ‘troublemaker’ US as tension grows over South China Sea 

China’s embassy in Washington hit back hours after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned that ‘the world will not allow Beijing to treat the South China Sea as its maritime empire’,

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France celebrates virus heroes on redesigned Bastille Day 

Ambulance drivers, supermarket cashiers, postal workers. Medics who died fighting COVID-19. France is honoring them all on its biggest national holiday Tuesday, recalibrating Bastille Day’s usual grandiose military parade to celebrate heroes of the coronavirus pandemic instead.

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Family suffers double heartbreak as daughter dies in hospital weeks before mother, 47, passes away 

Mother Maria Gatt, a former residential home manager from New Waltham, Lincolnshire, died unexpectedly on July 4 – shortly after her daughter Gemma passed away on April 7.

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Difficulties compound for embattled fashion retailer Quiz 

The firm stated it was ‘very grateful to the press for highlighting the alleged breaches’ and was committed to conducting a ‘full review’ of its auditing processes.

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Masks slowly being embraced in hard-hit England, with PM’s backing 

“The U.K. government has a history of doing things rather late in the day,” said a professor of health psychology. “It seems to be part of a pattern.”

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UFC 251 fight purses revealed Jorge Masvidal’s £280,000 windfall, £400k for Usman… and this is all BEFORE bonuses 

KAMARU USMAN proved he is worth every penny in the UFC – after earning £400,000 for beating Jorge Masvidal. Don’t feel sorry for beaten Masvidal, though, who took the fight on just six days’ notice. He still pocketed a monster £280,000 for losing to the welterweight champion at UFC 251 at Fight Island in Abu […]

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Grant Imahara, former host of Discovery Channel’s ‘Mythbusters, dead at 49 

Grant Imahara, a former host of the Discovery Channel show “Mythbusters,” reportedly died on Monday of a brain aneurysm. He was 49 years old.

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Boeing Nabs $23B US Air Force Contract; First Fighter Jet Order Now In 

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing (BA) a nearly $1.2 billion contract to build the first lot of eight F-15EX advanced fighter jets to help the service meet its capacity requirements and add capability to its fighter fleet. The award also covers support and one-time, upfront engineering costs.Already under construction at the Boeing F-15 production facili […]

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Grant Imahara: Mythbusters TV host dies suddenly at 49 

He was known for Mythbusters and White Rabbit Project, and made models for the Star Wars prequels.

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Investors yank $500m from super-leveraged US tech fund 

Record weekly outflow from ETF known as ‘TQQQ’ suggests wariness after momentous rally

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Giant steps to normality and refuelled for Tokyo 

After three months of lockdown, Andrew Pozzi is back in Italy and on the winning trail as GB’s top hurdler starts dreaming of the Olympics again.

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Roger Stone: Trump likely saved my life by commuting my sentence 

Fresh from having his prison sentence for lying to Congress to protect the president commuted, Roger Stone went on FOX News to claim the president likely saved his life with the clemency. Tim O’Brien joins to discuss.

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Lidl will open 25 new stores in UK this year creating 1,000 jobs 

Lidl is set to open 25 new stores in the UK by the end of the year, creating thousands more jobs, as part of its plan to have 1,000 new UK branches by the end of 2023.

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Space tool inventor dentist on his ultimate quest – the one for alien life. Europa, Jupiter’s moon, is his best bet 

Just like Leonardo: I was born in Hong Kong in 1952, exactly 500 years after da Vinci – I think I have a similar mind to him, I enjoy solving puzzles and making designs. My father was a building contractor and my mother was a housewife. I was the fifth of six children. We were a tradi­tional family and my father expected his children to be successful, which […]

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Amazon’s new smart shopping cart lets you check out without a cashier 

Photo: Amazon Amazon is expanding its real-world footprint with another unconventional physical product: a shopping cart. While it certainly looks like an aesthetic upgrade to your standard grocery store cart, the Dash Cart, as it’s called, is in fact a smart version of the tried-and-true food transport vehicle. It’s equipped with a touchscreen and other var […]

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