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The English town of Reading was to hold a minute's silence on Monday for the victims of a stabbing that killed three people including an American in the latest attack linked to terrorism.

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said on Monday that the central bank should start to reverse its quantitative easing asset purchases before raising interest rates on a sustained basis, a reversal of long-standing BoE policy.

China kept its benchmark lending rate unchanged on Monday, with the 1-year loan prime rate left at 3.85%. The 5-year loan prime rate was also kept steady at 4.65%.

Britain will seek changes to the law to allow scrutiny of some foreign takeovers to ensure they do not threaten the country's ability to tackle public health emergencies such as the coronavirus outbreak, the government said on Sunday.

China Standards 2035 is an ambitious 15-year blueprint that will lay out Beijing's plans to set the global standards for the next-generation of technologies.

Checkout.com has achieved impressive growth over the last year, increasing transaction volumes by 250% and picking up big-name clients.

Lufthansa will seek to avoid a grounding and insolvency, Chief Executive Carsten Spohr said on Sunday.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen oversaw the first public test flight of a new locally designed and made advanced jet trainer on Monday, part of her government's plan to boost defenses in the face of a growing challenge from China.

China's economy and its hundreds of millions of consumers are now looking more attractive to many businesses and investors searching for high-growth opportunities.

The move is part of China's push in technology and will wean the country off U.S. satellite technology.

New cases are surging in states across the South, West and Midwest. Seven states hit record cases on Saturday.

A reproduction rate of 2.88 means that out of 100 people who contracted the virus, a further 288 other people will get infected.

President Donald Trump wanted his first mega rally in three months to be a sold-out lovefest that would revive his struggling reelection campaign. That's not what happened.

The wall of money flowing into banks has no precedent in history: in April alone, deposits grew by $865 billion, more than the previous record for an entire year.

"This was an atrocity," chief U.K. counter-terrorism officer Neil Basu said, describing unarmed police officers as having subdued the assailant.

The government on Sunday said it would introduce changes to the Enterprise Act on Monday to allow it to intervene if a business involved in a pandemic response became a target of a takeover.

Socotra, a UNESCO World Heritage site due to its unique natural environment, is located in the shipping lane linking Asia to the Europe via the Red sea and Suez Canal.

A strike was intended to open a new arena of resistance, but organizers said only 8,943 union members participated in a city-wide poll, falling short of the 60,000 threshold to go ahead.

Spain reopened its borders to British tourists on Sunday in a bid to kickstart its economy while Brazil and South Africa struggled with rising levels of coronavirus infections.

The office of the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York is investigating Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and obtained a conviction of his past lawyer, Michael Cohen.