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The season will get under way on the Wednesday date with Aston Villa v Sheffield United and Manchester City v Arsenal, which are both games in hand.

"This will be a Big Day for Social Media and FAIRNESS!" Trump tweeted, days after Twitter began fact-checking some of his tweets.

The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation condemning China for the detention and torture of Uighur Muslims in the country's western region of Xinjiang as tensions between the U.S. and China continue to escalate.

The Cypriot government has said it will cover the vacation costs of any tourists who contract the coronavirus while holidaying in the country.

Neighboring Abu Dhabi, meanwhile, the country's oil-rich capital, remains largely shut down in terms of non-essential business and leisure venues.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tells CNBC that letting employees work remotely will improve retention, boost local economies and help the environment. But the company will have to make sure remote workers get the same opportunities for career advancement.

The ad market will reduce by 8.1%, or $49.6 billion, according to data from the World Advertising Research Center (WARC), compared to a previously forecast growth of 7.1%.

Jack Dorsey stands by the company's decision to fact-check Trump's tweets, even as it has attracted blistering criticism from the president.

A smaller decision-making body under China's National People's Congress, the Standing Committee, will now proceed to work on the specifics of the legislation and implement them in Hong Kong.

Videos of Uber's red Jump bikes being crushed at a recycling center were shared on Twitter.

Should the U.S. Federal Reserve opt to take its benchmark funds rate into negative territory, it will need to "go deeply negative" with a cut of between 50-100 basis points below zero, according to Standard Chartered Bank.

The European Union needs to agree on additional coronavirus-related stimulus "in the coming months," a top EU official told CNBC Thursday.

The coronavirus has infected more than 5,710,393 people around the world as of Thursday, killing at least 356,042 people.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang used a key meeting at the National People's Congress on Thursday to emphasize the opportunities China offers to foreign businesses, in the wake of the coronavirus shock.

The coronavirus pandemic may have brought most of the global property market to a standstill but in Sweden, which never fully went into lockdown, a village has gone up for sale for 70 million Swedish krona ($7.3 million).

The U.S. and China have in recent days clashed over Beijing's plan to introduce a new national security law in Hong Kong. The U.S. criticized China's move for undermining Hong Kong's autonomy, while China accused the U.S. for interfering in its internal affairs.

EasyJet, which plans to resume flights on June 15, is the latest in a slew of airlines to announce job cuts amid the Covid-19 crisis.

The law is aimed at prohibiting secession, subversion of state power, terrorism activities and foreign interference.

Orient Capital Research's Andrew Collier tells CNBC why he is "very nervous" about the whole situation surrounding Hong Kong following the proposal of a national security law by China.

Hong Kong's special status with the U.S. now appears to be under threat, as U.S.-China tensions ramped up after Beijing proposed a new security law for the Chinese special administrative region.