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  Last update: 11:55 20.10.2019

  11:55 20.10.2019

  Business

  Boeing 737 to the Rescue: Nowegian Lowcoster Ready to Sell its Fleet to Bolster Finances

  The move comes as the company, plagued by debts amounting to more than 170 million dollars, tries to implement a new strategy, which NAS hope will bring profitability.

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  Last update: 11:33 20.10.2019

  11:33 20.10.2019

  Business

  Done With the Greenback: Russia Eyeing Euro, Yuan-Denominated Loans

  The 2020 budget plan allows foreign loans to amount to $3 trillion, with the government seeking bonds in currencies different from the dollar. While so-called Panda bonds are already in the making, no less hope has been pinned on Russia’s vast gold reserves, expected to buffer potential price volatility on oil.

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  Last update: 09:28 20.10.2019

  09:28 20.10.2019

  Middle East

  Cruising Around: US Troops Leaving Syria to Head for Iraq

  The US secretary of defence has shared with journalists that the US troops, who, as Donald Trump argued the other day, should finally come home, are not actually doing so.

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  Last update: 12:07 20.10.2019

  12:07 20.10.2019

  Tech

  NASA Rebuts Claim Life Was Discovered on Mars in 1970s, But Search Continues

  Last week a former NASA researcher published an article claiming that an experiment that tested samples from Martian soil back in 1976 had discovered signs of life.

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  Last update: 07:43 20.10.2019

  07:43 20.10.2019

  Opinion

  Will Global Video Apps Market Collapse Because of China?

  China is the first to release a utility that limits teenagers’ use of video apps to 40 minutes a day. The list contains 53 video services. This is to ensure that children don’t develop Internet addiction.

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  Last update: 09:07 20.10.2019

  09:07 20.10.2019

  US

  Watch Fearless Coach Hug and Disarm Student Who Carried Shotgun to School

  According to the Multnomah County district attorney, the young man had been suffering from mental health issues for some time before the incident. His defence attorney also told journalists the teen went to the school in a bid to kill himself, carrying just one round, marked with the words, "The last red pill 5-17-19 just for me".

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  Last update: 07:09 20.10.2019

  07:09 20.10.2019

  Asia & Pacific

  Amid Border Tensions With Pakistan, India Begins Using American Satellite Guided Artillery Shells

  New Delhi (Sputnik): The 155mm satellite guided artillery rounds were ordered following the February 2019 military standoff and subsequent border skirmishes between the two nuclear-armed nations.

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  Last update: 05:41 20.10.2019

  05:41 20.10.2019

  Tech

  Russia to Show Concept of Lunar Take-Off, Landing Module at Astronautical Congress in US

  MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian Rocket and Space Corporation Energia is expected to present a segment of a lunar-orbiting space station for landing on the moon at the 70th annual International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Washington, which will take place from October 21-25, follows from the report's thesis that the specialists will provide.