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A boy wears a cardboard box on his head at the Shanghai Railway station in Shanghai. The number of deaths and new cases from China’s COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak spiked dramatically on February 13 after authorities changed the way they count infections in a move likely to fuel speculation the severity of the outbreak has been under-reported. (NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images) … [Read more...] about World Health Organization (Again) Applauds China’s Virus Outbreak Response, Urges World to Follow Suit

On Wednesday, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to back the European Commission’s trade negotiators to make the UK agree to continue to abide by restrictive Brussels regulations as the price of a trade deal. European leaders, fearful of the UK becoming a competitor on their doorstep, also want to be able to punish the UK over perceived contraventions of a proposed trade deal. … [Read more...] about ‘Record Breaking’ UK Exports; Sales to World Rises 14%, EU Trade Deficit Widens

After Steve returned home to Australia from his overseas trip, he began sending off applications to accelerators in the USA, hoping to get into a program and land a large investment deal to get his startup off the ground just like Airbnb and many other startups had done before him. Steve’s startup soon got accepted into the 10Xelerator program run out of the Ohio State University (USA) and he relocated to Columbus for the three-month program to begin perfecting his product and to prepare his startup for investment. … [Read more...] about New research provides a “closer look” into startup accelerator programs around the world

The world’s attention was on the little museum Piacenza, Italy, after the audacious heist, and Fugazza, who was curator at the time, clearly needed to put his thoughts in order.  “I wondered what could be done to give the exhibition some notoriety, to ensure an audience success like never before,” he wrote in black pen. “And the idea that came to me was to organize, from the inside together with police, a theft of the Klimt, just before the show, for the work to then be rediscovered after the show began.” In parentheses he adds, “Exactly, my God, what happened.” … [Read more...] about The Hole in the Wall, The Dead Curator’s Diary. and the Strange Case of the Missing Masterpiece

China steals Western capabilities, intimidates smaller nation states and seeks “advantage by any means and at any cost, ” U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper cautioned on Saturday as he cast the world’s most populous nation as a disruptive threat to world order. … [Read more...] about Pentagon Chief Mark Esper Cautions World: ‘Wake Up’ to China Threat