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Why the Covid-19 Pandemic Weakened Far-Right Groups in Europe

As the coronavirus crisis recedes, it leaves surprising political fallout in Europe: diminished antiestablishment forces and a strengthened center.

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Putin defends hosting Euro games in St Petersburg amid COVID-19 spike

Annual Direct Line with Vladimir Putin in Moscow – Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual “Direct Line with Vladimir Putin” live call-in show. – -/Kremlin/dpa Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended hosting European Championship matches in St Petersburg

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Watch Virgin Orbit’s first rocket launch live stream

Virgin Orbit is set to launch a payload that includes satellites it’s delivering for tis first commercial customers. The launch is set to happen sometime within a launch window that opens at 6 AM PT (9 AM ET) and continues

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Daily Briefing June 30 – ‘Who run the world?’ Four female ministers make a start

Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today

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US said to pick Amy Gutmann, daughter of Holocaust survivor, as Germany envoy

University of Pennsylvania president would be 1st woman to hold the post; has said her father’s early escape from Nazi Germany had a ‘profound influence’ on her

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Dream Games raises $155M at a $1B valuation as its Royal Match puzzle game hits a royal flush

Istanbul in Turkey continues to prove itself as very fertile ground for casual gaming startups, which appear to be growing from small seedlings into sizable trees. In the latest development, Dream Games — a developer of mobile puzzle games —

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Noname Security closes $60M Series B to eliminate API flaws

Enterprise API security startup Noname Security has raised a $60 million Series B funding round, just six months after closing $25 million at Series A.  The round was led by Insight Partners with Next47, Forgepoint, and The Syndicate Group (TSG)

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Shogun, a front end e-commerce page builder, nabs $67.5M as retailers look for alternatives to marketplaces

E-commerce marketplaces continue to play a major role in how consumers buy goods online and how retailers show off and sell goods to those consumers, accounting globally for 47% of all e-commerce sales. But today, one of the startups that

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Apple and Snap partner JigSpace, the ‘Canva for 3D,’ raises a $4.7M Series A

When former Art Director Zac Duff started teaching a game development course online in 2015, he faced the same challenges that teachers around the globe have become all too familiar with after a pandemic-induced lockdown. So, he used his experience

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Why Does the QAnon Conspiracy Thrive Despite All its Unfulfilled Prophecies?

To any reasonable person, the failure of a long-foretold event to materialize should erode the belief that it will happen. A perfect example is the long-foretold and never arriving “storm” of mass arrests promised by the mysterious “military intelligence” team

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