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Alibaba says to invest $28 billion in cloud computing services
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd will invest 200 billion yuan ($28.27 billion) in cloud infrastructure over a three year period, the e-commerce company said on Monday. The plan c...
Apr 19, 2020
Australia plans law forcing Google, Facebook to share ad revenue with domestic media firms
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will pass legislation within months obliging Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google to share advertising revenue with local media firms, the country's treasurer said on Mo...
Apr 19, 2020
China reports 12 new mainland coronavirus cases on April 19, eight imported
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China reported 12 new confirmed coronavirus cases on April 19, down from 16 a day earlier, with no new deaths, the country's health authority said on Monday. Of the total, eight w...
Apr 19, 2020
In shadow of coronavirus, Muslims face a Ramadan like never before
By Hamid Ould Ahmed, Ulf Laessing and Gayatri Suroyo ALGIERS/CAIRO/JAKARTA (Reuters) - Days before the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, the Islamic world is grappling with an untimely paradox of ...
Apr 19, 2020
Chile, China officials contradict each other over donated ventilators
By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile is expecting China to donate ventilators to help cope with the coronavirus outbreak, a government official said on Sunday, contradicting earlier ...
Apr 19, 2020
Coronavirus cases in Peru top 15,000, second highest in Latin America
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru reported over 15,000 cases of coronavirus on Sunday, the second-highest tally in Latin America, as the disease continues to ravage the economy of the world's No. 2 copper produce...
Apr 19, 2020
Honduras extends curfew by one week in fight against coronavirus
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The government of Honduras on Sunday extended a curfew through April 26 in an effort to contain the coronavirus which has infected 472 people and killed 46 in the impoverished ...
Apr 19, 2020
Facebook to introduce gaming app on Monday: New York Times
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc is planning to launch a gaming mobile app on Monday focused mainly on live game streaming in a bid to take on Amazon.com Inc's Twitch, Google's YouTube and Microsoft Corp's Mi...
Apr 19, 2020
Escape of Ebola patient in Congo sparks fear of further infection
BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - An Ebola flare-up in eastern Congo may spread again after a patient escaped from a clinic, complicating efforts to contain the disease that has infected ...
Apr 19, 2020
Italy’s daily coronavirus death toll hits one-week low
MILAN (Reuters) - Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy rose by 433 on Sunday, the lowest daily tally in a week, and the number of new cases also slowed to 3,047 from a previous 3,491, the Civil ...
Apr 19, 2020
