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None more unbeatable than Djokovic at his best, says...

May 9 (Reuters) - There is no one more unbeatable in men's tennis than Novak Djokovic when the Serb is at his best, former world number four American Todd...




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Australia's biggest states hold off on easing COVID-19...

By Sonali PaulMELBOURNE, May 9 (Reuters) - Australia's most populous states held back from relaxing coronavirus restrictions on Saturday although other...




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Indonesia reports 533 new COVID-19 cases, biggest in a day

JAKARTA, May 9 (Reuters) - Indonesia reported on Saturday 533 new coronavirus infections, the biggest daily increase, taking the total number to 13,645,...




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Cycling-Vuelta cancels stages in Portugal amid COVID-19...

PARIS, May 9 (Reuters) - This year's Tour of Spain will not go through Portugal as planned because of the COVID-19 crisis, organisers said on Saturday."Due...




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`Dedicated and loving´ nurse dies five weeks after...

Onyenachi Obasi was described by her family as an `example of unconditional love´.




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Britain's Got Talent SPOILER: Frontline nurse who tested positive for COVID-19 wows judges

Beth Porch, 25, who sings to child cancer patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital, joined a hopefuls at the series 17 auditions which were filmed earlier this year before the UK COVID-19 lockdown




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American billionaire hedge-fund manager Julian Robertson took $800,000 in COVID-19 aid from New Zealand's government to pay the staff at his luxury resorts

Hedge-fund billionaire Julian Robertson received a total of $1.2 million NZ ($800,000 USD) from the New Zealand government to pay employees at his luxury resorts.Not unlike the Paycheck Protection Program that helps American businesses affected by the coronavirus crisis, New Zealand's wage subsidy has been hit by allegations of fraud and favoring large businesses. Robertson has amassed a $4.4 billion fortune running hedge fund Tiger Management.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.A billionaire former hedge-fund manager took hundreds of thousands of dollars from New Zealand's government to pay the staff at the luxury resorts he owns there, data from New Zealand's Ministry of Social Development shows.Julian Robertson's luxury resorts and golf courses received more than $1.2 million




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Giuliani says he wanted to get rid of Marie Yovanovitch because she was enabling Ukraine corruption

Rudy Giuliani detailed Tuesday that he felt it was necessary for Marie Yovanovitch to be prematurely removed from her post because she was enabling Ukrainian corruption.




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Mike Pompeo finally orders probe of claims Trump allies surveilled ambassador Marie Yovanovitch

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the new information should be evaluated, three days after messages revealed Trump allies talking about the physical location of a U.S. ambassador.




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Trump ally admits a source WAS providing him 'intel' on Marie Yovanovitch

Republican congressional candidate Robert Hyde said he was communicating with another man about 'intel' on U.S. ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, even as he dismissed it.




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Dutch Trump supporter who texted about Marie Yovanovitch's location says messages were joking

Anthony de Caluwe admitted to texting GOP congressional candidate Robert Hyde about the location of Ukrainian Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch after initially denying involvement.




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Rudy Giuliani blows past his own deadline to provide 'evidence' that Joe Biden was corrupt

The president's personal counsel - who is not part of his impeachment defense in the Senate - had told Fox News he would offer evidence at noon Friday, but his new podcast had no new facts.




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'Get rid of her! Do it!' Feds have tape of Trump apparently telling aides to fire Marie Yovanovitch

Donald Trump has been caught on tape appearing to order the firing of then-Ambassador to the Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. 'Get rid of her!' he appears to say.




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Donald Trump DEFENDS his order to fire Ukraine ambassador Marie Yovanovitch

'I am not a fan of that ambassador,' Trump said in an interview with Fox News defending his actions on Friday. 'She wouldn't put my picture up, she was an Obama appointee I believe.'




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Full video is released showing Donald Trump's order to fire Ukraine ambassador Marie Yovanovitch

The video was made during a fundraiser dinner on April 30, 2018 at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC and released on Saturday by an attorney for Lev Parnas,




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Family of Welsh journalist blast new movie 'Mr Jones' for showing him resorting to CANNIBALISM

The film 'Mr Jones' which is due to be released on February 7 shows Jones - played by James Norton - eating the remains of a young boy. But Jones's great-nephew said this is completely false.




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Bolton urged Dems to probe Marie Yovanovitch's firing in intervention two weeks after he left WH

John Bolton warned the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee shortly after his departure in September that former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch's ousting was 'improper.'




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US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch retires from the State Department

Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, has announced her retirement from the State Department on Friday evening. She was a key witness in the impeachment inquiry.




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COVID-19 will change how companies report earnings – these are the top 20 things execs need to keep in mind

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has issued an advisory on the factors that companies should keep in mind while reporting earnings for FY 2019-20.The advisory covers 20 key items spread across five categories.Given that this is an advisory, the nature and extent of items to be considered will differ between companies.The COVID-19 pandemic has had an adverse impact on all aspects of the economy, be it earnings, supply chains, operational efficiencies and the stock markets.Since the financial year ends on March 31, 2020 in India, it falls amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. This will have an impact on the way companies report their earnings for the financial year 2019-20. To deal with the accounting issues caused due to the volatility, financial uncertainty and fluctuating valuations,




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SBI, India's largest bank, is only worth a third of HDFC Bank — and the COVID-19 lockdown is making it bleed even more

State Bank of India’s (SBI) shares fell by as much as 6% today while HDFC Bank dipped by more than 7%.Yet, there is a sharp difference in the market capitalization between the State Bank of India (SBI) and HDFC Bank.This despite the former having 10 times as many customers and four times the balance sheet.With the coronavirus pandemic, it’s the beginning of another cycle of non-performing assets for banks, according to Siddharth Purohit, a banking analyst with Angel Broking.The State Bank of India (SBI), the largest bank in India, is only worth one-third of HDFC Bank, which in its own right, is the largest private sector bank in the country. This is despite the fact that SBI’s balance sheet is four times larger than HDFC Bank, has 10 times more customers, and is owned by the government of




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Yes Bank fears more deposits may disappear when COVID-19 moratorium ends and people start repaying loans

Yes Bank reported a net loss of ₹3668.33 lakh during the fourth quarter.Between 40% to 45% of its borrowers have opted to exercise the three-month moratorium on loan repayments issued by the Reserve Bank of India.The bank expects deposits to erode further once the moratorium lifts and its customers withdraw their funds to pay off loans.Over the last year, Yes Bank deposits half shrunk to half their original size.Yes Bank posted a net loss of ₹3668.33 lakh in its fourth-quarter earnings amounting to a total loss of ₹16,418 crore for the financial year 2019-20. However, with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing lockdown, the bank is far from being out of the woods just yet. “The extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic will impact the bank's future results will depend on related




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Vicky Pattison and boyfriend Ercan Ramadan cosy up as they run errands in Essex after moving house 

The Geordie Shore star, 32, went make-up free for the outing with her beau, 26, on Tuesday, which saw them stopping at a post office to pick up a parcel in Brentwood, Essex




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Charlotte Crosby 'flouts lockdown rules by moving in with her new boyfriend Liam Beaumont'

The reality star, 29, has been sharing glimpses of her new abode on Instagram, with some parts being eerily similar to Liam's new home.




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5 guests were stuck at a wine farm in South Africa when the country went into lockdown. The owners provided pizza nights while the stranded families gardened and enjoyed live music - and said they became like family.

Anna Punke-Dresen and her family were staying at the Spier Hotel and Wine Farm in South Africa when the country went on lockdown in March in response to COVID-19.The German family's return flights were suddenly canceled and they found themselves stuck, with no idea how or when they could return home.The wine farm's hotel manager decided to stop charging the stranded families, and set social distancing rules in place to protect the hotel staff and remaining guests.Despite the plunge in business, the wine farm is also still paying all of its employees, both part and full-time, whether or not they're working.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.Spier Wine Farm was going to be the cherry on top of Anna Punke-Dresen's family trip to South Africa. This luxe wine-farm hotel (one of




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Center Should Provide Autonomy To States To Determine Norms At Local Level Instead Of Nationwide Common Directions: Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot

BW Businessworld’ s Manish Kumar Jha speaks with the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Ashok Gehlot on such critical issues.




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Julia Louis-Dreyfus is eye-catching in green blouse and black slacks as she promotes movie Downhill

Louis-Dreyfus's blouse featured short sleeves, a frill down the bodice and a pussy bow. She fastened her wide-leg trousers with a black belt with silver edging.




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Joaquin Phoenix saves a mother cow and her calf from slaughterhouse after moving speech at Oscars

Joaquin Phoenix was filmed rescuing the cow and her calf from the Manning Beef slaughterhouse in Los Angeles the day after he accepted his best actor Oscar for Joker.




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224 new COVID-19 cases recorded in Delhi, total tally 6,542

New Delhi, May 9 () With 224 new instances of the novel coronavirus infection, the total number of cases reported in the national capital climbed to 6,542, the Delhi government said on Saturday.The fresh cases were reported between 4 pm to midnight of May 8.No fresh death due to the virus was reported in this period. Delhi has so far reported 68 deaths.Of the total cases reported in the city, 4,454 are active while 2,020 patients have been cured of the disease, the health bulletin stated. SLB NSDNSD




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62-yr-old man becomes second COVID-19 fatality in UP's Gautam Buddh Nagar

(Eds: Adds daily COVID stats, other info) Noida (UP), May 9 () A 62-year-old man died due to coronavirus in Noida, becoming the second COVID-19 fatality in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar district, officials said on Saturday. The man, a resident of sector 66, died on Friday but the report of his COVID test came out as positive on Saturday, they said. "He expired yesterday (Friday) evening. The cause of the death was cardio-respiratory failure," District Surveillance Officer Sunil Dohare said in a statement.Another person who tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday is a 52-year-old man residing in sector 45's Khajoor Colony, the officer said."Total 100 reports have been received in the last 24 hours of which two were positive and the rest negative for COVID-19. The cumulative positive cases




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Testing capacity for COVID-19 scaled up to 95,000 per day: Vardhan

New Delhi, May 9 () The testing capacity for COVID-19 has been scaled up to around 95,000 tests per day and a total of 15,25,631 tests have been conducted so far across 332 government and 121 private laboratories, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday. The minister, who reviewed the status of COVID-19 in the northeastern states along with the measures taken for its containment and management, also stressed on the need to take concrete action to check the use of non-smoking tobacco and prohibiting spitting in public places which shall help in preventing the spread of the infection, according to a statement. During the high-level meeting with Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim, Vardhan appreciated the dedication of all the states




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PTI tally of COVID-19 cases and deaths in India at 6:45pm

New Delhi May 9 () Following is a state-wise tally of the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in India at 6:45pm as per information provided by respective governments.State/UTConfirmed Discharged Deaths------------------------------------------------------------Andaman & Nicobar33330 ------------------------------------------------------------Andhra Pradesh193088744 ------------------------------------------------------------Arunachal Pradesh110 ------------------------------------------------------------Assam59341 ------------------------------------------------------------Bihar5852625 ------------------------------------------------------------Chandigarh146211 ------------------------------------------------------------Chhattisgarh59380 ------------------------------------------------------------Delhi6542202068




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Entrepreneurs in rural belts switch to making face masks amid COVID-19 crisis

Kolkata, May 9 () A number of entrepreneurs basedin rural areas of the country have taken to manufacturing facemasks amid dwindling demand for their regular produce in thewake of the coronavirus pandemic, an official said onSaturday.Around, 500 rural entrepreneurs have so far producedand sold 3.5 lakh such masks under the Start-up VillageEntrepreneurship Programme (SVEP), he said.They produce around 2,500 masks per day for healthprofessionals, policemen, media personnel and cleaning staff,the official said.In West Bengal, 38 entrepreneurs manufacture nearly600 masks a day in blocks of Dinhata, Pathar Pratima andManikchak in different districts of the state.The entrepreneurs, trained under SVEP -- under theNational Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) -- have sold 49,000masks in the state till date,




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Two fresh COVID-19 cases in Kerala, total goes up to 505

Thiruvananthapuram, May 9 () Two fresh cases ofCOVID-19 were reported from Kerala on Saturday, both beingforeign returnees who reached the state from Dubai and AbuDhabi on May 7 and were among the expatriates airlifted by theCentre as part of its mission to bring back stranded Indiansabroad. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said with the twonew patients, the total number of cases in the state has goneup to 505 and there are currently 17 under treatment. "One patient from Idukki, who was under treatment,has been cured today.The two new cases are now under treatmentin Kochi and Kozhikode. They reached the state on May 7 in the Abu Dhabi-Kochi andDubai-Kozhikode flights, respectively," Vijayan toldreporters. "There are 23,930 people under observation in thestate out of which 334 are in isolation




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COVID-19 challenges: TN forms panel under ex-RBI Guv Rangarajan to improve fiscal position

Chennai, May 9 () The Tamil Nadu government onSaturday set up a high-level committee headed by formerReserve Bank of India governor C Rangarajan to examine fiscalchallenges facing the state owing to the COVID-19 pandemic andsuggest the way forward to improve its fiscal position. The committee, which will also consist of FinanceSecretary S Krishnan as coordinator, will submit its report tothe government within three months, according to a GovernmentOrder. The committee, with 21 members, would assess theoverall immediate and medium term impact of the COVID-19pandemic on different sectors of the state's economy includingthe impact of lockdown, additional costs and implications dueto social distancing and their precautionary measures. Also, it would assess the opportunities and threatsin the




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COVID-19: MGNREGA activities resume across Jammu

Jammu, May 9 () Activities under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) resumed in Jammu division on Saturday after an almost two-month suspension owing to the coronavirus-forced lockdown, officials said.The decision to resume works under MGNREGA was taken following a Home Affairs order allowing select additional activities in rural areas outside containment zones to mitigate the economic hardships being faced by people due to curbs, a spokesperson said.Work has resumed on 5,800 projects in all the 10 districts of Jammu division."More than 25,000 job card holders have been engaged in these works. The director of Rural Development Department RDD has instructed the officers concerned to complete all works under MGNREGA, while ensuring that guidelines for curbing




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Chhattisgarh: 5 discharged, active COVID-19 cases now 16

Raipur, May 9 () Five people were discharged fromthe All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Raipurin Chhattisgarh on Saturday after recovering from the novelcoronavirus infection, health officials said.Those discharged include two women and a five-year-oldboy, an official informed.So far 43 people have been discharged while the numberof active cases in the state is 16, he added."Two women and a boy from Kabirdham, two men from Durgand Surajpur were discharged after two consecutive tests werenegative for the infection. They will be kept in a quarantinecentre as a precaution before they are allowed to go home," apublic relations officer of AIIMS Raipur told .Chhattisgarh COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positivecases 59; New cases nil; Deaths nil; Discharged 43; Activecases 16; People




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Daughter of MP cop who died of COVID-19 appointed PSI

Bhopal, May 9 () The 23-year-old daughter of apoliceman who died of the novel coronavirus infection lastmonth in Madhya Pradesh has been appointed as sub-inspector inthe force by the state government, said an official onSaturday.The 59-year-old policeman, in charge of Neelgangapolice station in Ujjain district, died in an Indore hospitalon April 21 after getting infected while performing his dutyin a containment area, the official said."Minister for Home and Health Narottam Mishra spoke tothe 23-year-old woman on Saturday over phone and told herabout the appointment as PSI as announced by Chief MinisterShivraj Singh Chouhan. She is likely to join duty next week,"a state public relations department official said. ADU MASBNM BNM




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Stars come out to celebrate The Black Movie Soundtrack II at the Hollywood Bowl

Stars come out to celebrate The Black Movie Soundtrack II as Prince and Whitney are paid tribute at the Hollywood Bowl concert




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Kim Kardashian's BFF Brittny Gastineau is moving to New York to launch a career

Kim Kardashian's best friend Brittny Gastineau spoke to DailyMail.com during a party held to celebrate the opening of artist Harif Guzman's latest exhibition at art gallery EAST in Miami.




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Kristin Davis still hopes for third Sex And The City movie

Speaking after Kim claimed she would 'never' make another movie, Kristin said she hopes the cast will reunite in the future to bring out a third movie.




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Kirsten Dunst is all smiles alongside fiance Jesse Plemons at the Breaking Bad movie El Camino

Kirsten Dunst was all smiles alongside her fiance, Breaking Bad star Jesse Plemons, at the premiere of the new Breaking Bad movie El Camino.




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Bruce Springsteen enlists Bon Jovi and Whoopi Goldberg for New Jersey COVID-19 relief event 

Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi are teaming up to help raise funds for the Garden State's pandemic relief fund, by performing at the #JerseyForJersey benefit on April 22.




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Trump gets narrow poll backing for killing of Soleimani with 43% approving over 38% who disapprove

More Americans back Donald Trump's decision to conduct an airstrike that took out Iranian General Qassem Soleimani than those who disapprove, according to a poll released Monday.




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Pictures show how public spaces have emptied as countries battle to contain COVID-19

A series of photographs taken in recent days from Libya to Singapore show deserted streets after governments across the world shut down borders to contain the deadly coronavirus.




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Kourtney Kardashian, 40, shares custody during COVID

The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star has Mason, 10, Penelope, seven, and five-year-old Reign with her five nights a week and they then spend the other two nights with their dad.




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Kim Kardashian appears in teaser for star-studded amfAR virtual fashion show for COVID-19

The 25-second teaser - which dropped Thursday - also features Hailey Bieber, Irina Shayk, Alessandra Ambrosio, and many more




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Kylie Jenner learns someone 'close to home' tested positive for COVID-19

The reality star, 22, expressed her fears in a new teaser for Keeping Up With The Kardashians, without identifying the individual who contracted the disease.




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Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has net worth plunge down by enormous £2.4bn

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has seen his net worth fall by a staggering £2.4billion already this year.




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China reports 27 new confirmed cases of COVID-19

Twenty of the new cases were in Heilongjiang province (pictured, a makeshift hospital there), including 13 Chinese nationals who had returned recently from Russia.




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Sarah Silverman performs her daily cheer for emergency workers battling COVID-19

The 49-year-old Wreck-It-Ralph star, who was once again joined by her assistant Annie Segal, looked joyful, as she banged on a pot from her apartment balcony in New York City.