Mexico on Wednesday made a plea at the U.N. Security Council for countries to stop hoarding vaccines against COVID-19 as poorer ones fall behind in the race to vaccinate their citizens.
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A tussle over an Indian grocery company has pitted the world’s largest e-commerce business Amazon against India’s largest company Reliance.
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Mr Brin is the world's ninth-richest person with a personal fortune of $86.5bn (£63.2bn). He joins the rush of super-rich families opening up family offices in the Asian financial hub including British entrepreneur Sir James Dyson.
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October 20 (Quartz) - Nine months into the pandemic, Europe remains one of the regions worst affected by Covid-19. Ten of the 20 countries with the highest death count per million people are European. The other 10 are in the Americas. This includes the US, which has the highest number of confirmed cases and deaths in the world. Most of ...
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London, September 16 (Reuters) - Lionel Messi was denied a potentially money-spinning move away from Barcelona this month after a contract-dispute but the Argentine maestro remains the world's richest soccer player. According to a list compiled by Forbes, Messi's total earnings this year are $126 million -- $92 million from his salary and $34 million in endorsements. Not surprisingly Cristiano ...
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December 30 (Forbes) - Anastasia Radzinskaya is an unlikely media star. Born in southern Russia with cerebral palsy, her doctors feared she would never be able to speak. To document her development through treatments, her parents posted videos of her on YouTube so friends and relatives could see the progress. The videos are typical kid stuff: playdates with dad, jumping around on ...
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