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A "sophisticated state-based actor" has been attempting to hack a wide range of Australian organisations for months and had stepped up its efforts recently, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday.

NetEase is using a dual strategy of partnering with big name brand owners, as well as investing in gaming studios, to drive its international expansion, the company told CNBC.

The Dow fell as investors weighed the rising number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. along with disappointing unemployment data.

Within eight weeks, 81% of the asymptomatic people saw a reduction in neutralizing antibodies compared with 62% of symptomatic patients.

President Donald Trump said some Americans might wear face masks not as a way to prevent the spread of coronavirus but as a way to "signal disapproval of him."

The Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump on Thursday in a set of cases over his effort to end the Obama-era immigration program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.

Many economists these days are looking deeper than the usual suspects of macro data.

The ads contained red downward-pointing triangles, which the Nazis used to mark political prisoners.

Germany, Italy and Denmark have also switched from a so-called "centralized" approach to a "dencentralized" approach.

British foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Thursday that "taking the knee" seems to have come from the fantasy TV drama series "Game of Thrones" and felt like a symbol of subjugation and subordination.

The state oil giant saw a 25% hit to its net income in the first quarter as oil prices plunged amid global lockdowns.

Former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya told the CB Insights conference that regulators are going to come down hard on Big Tech in the next 10 years.

"The question is 'can we keep this from getting out of control.' This is a virus that wants to infect a very large portion of the population," Dr. Scott Gottlieb said.

Wu Zunyou, the chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said the capital's recent coronavirus outbreak has been brought under control.

Both India and China are nuclear powers and analysts say that chances of a war breaking out are unlikely.

"I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my White House tenure that wasn't driven by reelection calculations," Bolton reportedly wrote.

The way we paint buildings could improve the quality of the air we breathe.

The elevated claims number persists even as all states have reopened to varying degrees and nonfarm payrolls grew by 2.5 million in May.

The Bank of England on Thursday added another £100 billion to its quantitative easing program in a bid to shore up the U.K. economy amid the fallout from the coronavirus crisis.

Huawei has often been accused of posing risks to national security, with U.S. officials worried it could enable Chinese espionage.