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Stocks rose slightly on Thursday as major tech shares continue to lead the market higher amid rising coronavirus cases.

A Vodafone executive warned the firm would have to spend "single-figure billions" if it were forced to swap out Huawei equipment.

Wirecard filed for insolvency last month owing creditors almost $4 billion after disclosing a 1.9 billion euro hole in its accounts.

TikTok's latest transparency report shows that it took down 49 million videos for content violations from July 2019 to December 2019.

British department store chain John Lewis said on Thursday it would close eight stores, putting around 1,300 jobs at risk in another blow to the UK retail sector after the coronavirus pandemic accelerated a shift to online shopping.

Siemens Chief Executive said on Thursday he wanted the future managing board of Siemens Energy to quickly set out plans to exit coal-generated electricity.

The U.K. and Australia have launched a joint probe into U.S. facial recognition firm Clearview AI, which scrapes the internet for images of people's faces.

Gold is traditionally used as a hedge against inflation and prices typically move higher as economic conditions deteriorate.

Democratic candidate Joe Biden is proposing sweeping new uses of the federal government's regulatory and spending power to bolster U.S. manufacturing and technology firms.

Vietnam is one of only a handful of countries to have reported no fatalities from the coronavirus pandemic. Timothyna Duncan reports on how the country, which shares a porous land border with China, defied the odds.

The World Health Organization this week said 21 candidate vaccines are in clinical trials at the moment, meaning they are being tested on human volunteers.

China's top two foreign ministers kept to a conciliatory tone this week in public remarks about relations with the U.S., amid increasingly fraught tensions between the world's two largest economies.

Short video-sharing app Chingari crossed 10 million downloads on the Android Play Store in under a month.

Despite its dramatic descent into insolvency last month, Wirecard's share price has not yet hit zero.

The Australian government has advised its citizens not to travel to Hong Kong, and to reconsider their need to remain in Hong Kong, due to uncertainties surrounding the new national security law there.

Don't expect the Chinese yuan to become a "safe-haven" alternative to the dollar or U.S. Treasurys anytime soon, says Ebrahim Rahbari of Citi.

Aerospace engineer Rolls-Royce said it had burned through £3 billion ($3.8 billion) in its first half as the hours flown by its engines halved due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The change at the helm of the WTO comes at a time when many question the future of the organization as an advocate for international trade.

A wooden sculpture of U.S. first lady Melania Trump was torched near her hometown of Sevnica, Slovenia, on the night of July Fourth.

Foreign currency interventions by the central bank to support the lira have drained the country's reserves.