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The sanctions represent the latest move in the Trump administration's maximum pressure campaign against Tehran.

The new feature in iOS 13.5 is a sign that Apple is aware that its FaceID software is significantly less useful when people are wearing masks.

Heavily indebted companies have helped to lead the stock market charge higher.

The coronavirus has infected more than 4.93 million people globally and killed at least 324,240 people as of Wednesday.

Almost two-thirds of the Covid-19 cases were reported in just four countries, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

An Amazon salesman's claim gets at how the company is simultaneously working with oil companies and becoming more reliant on renewable energy.

Stocks rose, building on this week's gains, as traders increased bets of an economic recovery with more states easing stay-at-home orders.

Most funding from the United States goes directly to the program that helps countries all over the world in "all sorts of fragile and difficult settings," one WHO official said.

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit is set to conduct its first orbital rocket launch on Saturday.

The U.K. borrowed at a negative interest rate for the first time on Wednesday, amid growing fears of a deep global recession and expectations of further bond buying action from central banks.

Trump's comments came shortly after Brazil's daily death toll from the coronavirus jumped to a record of 1,179 on Tuesday.

A powerful cyclone tore into eastern India and Bangladesh on Wednesday, destroying mud houses and embankments and whipping up a storm surge along the coast, officials said, after millions of people were moved out of its path.

The gold is being retained at the Bank of England as a result of U.K. and U.S. sanctions on the crisis-stricken South American country.

The study was published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

A lot depends on the "tug of war" between government stimulus and fundamentals, he told CNBC.

The company managed to boost sales despite the impact of the coronavirus, which rattled supply chains and dampened overall smartphone demand.

"The economic impact of the lockdown is just starting to begin," Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey said on CNBC's "Squawk Box."

A new report has suggested that alternating strict measures with intervals of relaxed social distancing could be a more effective way of slowing the spread of Covid-19 than indefinite or milder lockdowns.

CEO Herbert Diess and non-executive Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch were accused of stock market manipulation for withholding market-moving information on rigged emissions tests.

The move secures much-needed funding as the country of 82 million burns through its reserves and faces a widening fiscal deficit.