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  Last update: 18:26 GMT 11.07.2020

  18:26 GMT 11.07.2020

  India

  Bollywood Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, His Son Test Positive for COVID-19, Fans Break Down on Twitter

  New Delhi (Sputnik): The year 2020 has been called cursed ever since the coronavirus pandemic broke out and brought the world to a standstill. For one of the world’s biggest movie industries – Bollywood – this year has been especially brutal. Bollywood has lost some of its most prized jewels over the last few months.

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  Last update: 21:29 GMT 11.07.2020

  21:29 GMT 11.07.2020

  US

  Newly Released Video by Detroit Police Shows Man Firing at Officers Before They Shoot Him

  According to police, the new video proves that 20-year-old Hakeem Littleton, who was fatally shot by police, was not unarmed as rumours have claimed.

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  Last update: 14:47 GMT 11.07.2020

  14:47 GMT 11.07.2020

  Society

  Ancient Egyptian Artefacts: Isotope Analysis Helps Uncover Technology Underlying Great Giza Pyramid

  The difficulties in building the pyramids are believed to have sparked various technological advances at the time of their construction 4,500 years ago, with one of them supposedly being a method for shipping huge limestone blocks along the Nile River.

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  Last update: 17:17 GMT 11.07.2020

  17:17 GMT 11.07.2020

  Business

  Russia Continues to Boost Gold Reserves, Adds Further $2.7 Bln to Int’l Assets

  The country’s total foreign holdings are now above the $500 billion target set by the Central Bank of Russia a few years ago.

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  Last update: 20:26 GMT 11.07.2020

  20:26 GMT 11.07.2020

  Middle East

  Explosions Reportedly Heard Over Syrian City of Jableh

  Jableh is a district in the northwestern Syrian province of Latakia, situated just 15 kilometres (some nine miles) from the Russian airbase Hmeimim.

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  Last update: 14:01 GMT 11.07.2020

  14:01 GMT 11.07.2020

  Opinion

  Joe's Trip to USSR: How Biden Rubbed Shoulders With the Soviets Seeking to Diffuse Cold War Tensions

  A recently found Pravda article dated 27 August 1979 evokes memories of Joe Biden's first visit to the USSR. US academics have walked down memory lane discussing Biden's role in the US-Soviet SALT II negotiations and unexpected collapse of the agreement.

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  Last update: 04:42 GMT 11.07.2020

  04:42 GMT 11.07.2020

  World

  Coronavirus Live Updates: Global COVID-19 Case Total Rises By 219,983 to 12.3Mln, WHO Says

  Due to new outbreaks, several areas and cities around the world have been put on lockdown, including parts of eastern Spain and the Australian city of Melbourne. Pandemic restriction measures have also been imposed in Belgium, with people obliged to wear masks in public places once again.

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  Last update: 19:30 GMT 11.07.2020

  19:30 GMT 11.07.2020

  US

  Man Dies After Going to a COVID-19 Party to Prove That The Virus Was a Hoax

  The infectious disease, which has killed half a million people and infected almost 13 million. has also sparked numerous rumours and conspiracy theories, the most famous of which is that the disease is a hoax and safety measures introduced by authorities to curb the spread of the disease is a way for governments to control the world’s population.