Name: Facebook: COO asked staff to investigate George Soros
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Facebook has revealed that COO Sheryl Sandberg asked staff to investigate whether George Soros had any financial benefit from attacking the social media platform, but clarified that there was no attempt to malign the billionaire. The outgoing head of communications, Elliot Schrage, said that the company had hired a consulting firm to keep track of competitors and detractors, including Soros, who has called the networking site a 'menace to society'. Sandberg maintains that she did not direct research on Soros.  

A massive explosion shook Lebanon's capital Beirut on Tuesday wounding a number people and causing widespread damage.
The afternoon blast shook several parts of the capital and thick smoke billowed from the city centre. Residents reported windows being blown out and a false ceilings dropping.
The explosion appeared to be centred around Beirut's port and caused wide scale destruction and shattered windows miles away.
An Associated Press photographer near Beirut's port witnessed people wounded on the ground and widespread destruction in central Beirut.
Some local TV stations reported the blast was at Beirut's port inside an area where firecrackers were stored.&nbsp;

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran&nbsp;Khan has unveiled a new political map of the country that includes the whole of Jammu&nbsp;and Kashmir and parts of Ladakh.&nbsp;It also shows Sir Creek and the city of Junagadh&nbsp;in Gujarat as part of Pakistan.&nbsp;The new map comes a day ahead of the&nbsp;one-year anniversary of the Centre's decision to revoke Article 370 and bifurcate the former state. Khan said that it is a historic day for Pakistan and the new map represents the ambition of its people.&nbsp;

PTI,&nbsp;Beijing:&nbsp;China and the World Health Organization are discussing plans to trace the origin of the coronavirus outbreak following a visit to the country by two experts from the U.N. agency, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told reporters the experts conducted &ldquo;preparatory consultations on scientific research cooperation on virus tracing&rdquo; during their two-week stay, which ended Sunday.
Their talks touched on research in the areas of population, environment, molecules, animal traceability and transmission routes of the coronavirus, as well as plans for further scientific research, Wang said.
The two sides also further investigated the possible animal source, intermediate host and transmission route of the coronavirus to &ldquo;more effectively prevent and control the epidemic,&rdquo; Wang said.
Wang said the two sides worked on formulating a plan for China's contribution to the global tracing effort under a resolution passed by the World Health Assembly under WHO. No word was given on when that effort will begin in earnest.
The virus was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year and has been linked to a wholesale food market where wild animals were sold.
Scientists think it likely jumped from a wild animal such as a bat to humans via an intermediary species, possibly the anteater-like pangolin.
However, China says a full investigation may have to wait until the pandemic is under control and has rejected accusations that it delayed releasing information to WHO at the start of the outbreak.&nbsp;

Russia on Tuesday reported 5159 new Covid-19 cases and 144 deaths, the country's coronavirus&nbsp;crisis response center confirmed. The total number of Covid-19 cases in the country now stand at 861,423, making it the fourth-worst hit nation in the world. The official death toll has risen to 14,351.&nbsp;

Expressing concern over the closure of schools due to the pandemic scare,&nbsp;UN Secretary-General&nbsp;on Tuesday said that the world is facing a generational catastrophe that could waste untold human potential, undermine decades of progress, and exacerbate entrenched inequalities.
Launching the UN's&nbsp;'Save our Future' campaign, he emphasised on&nbsp;getting global education back on track after the local transmission gets under control.
The UN chief said re-opening educational institutes safely will be the top priority.
He added that with schools closed in&nbsp;160 countries till mid-July, around 1 billion high school students and 40 million preschool students have missed out on their education.
President Donald Trump is pushing for the reopening of schools which is being opposed due to the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the US.

On a day that the US surpassed 4.7 million confirmed cases of Covid-19, US President Donald Trump tried to deflect criticism of his administration&rsquo;s handling of the pandemic on to other countries.
Trump has that as compared to big countries, America is doing "very well" , while India is having a "tremendous problem" battling the disease.
"Don't forget, we're much bigger than - other than India and China. China is having a massive flare up right now. India has a tremendous problem. Other countries have problems," he said.
The US is the worst-hit country from the pandemic with over 4.7 million cases and more than 155,000 deaths.

US President Donald Trump has demanded that the US treasury should get a "substantial amount of money" from the sale of TikTok's US unit if an American firm buys it.
Trump has given ByteDance a deadline of September 15 to sell TikTok&rsquo;s US operations, failing which he will ban the short-form video app.&nbsp;
Earlier, tech giant Microsoft said that it will continue to hold discussions with the US government on a deal.&nbsp;
Meanwhile, state-run China Daily newspaper said that Beijing won&rsquo;t accept the 'theft' of a Chinese tech company and that Beijing had 'plenty of ways to respond if the Trump administration carries out its planned smash and grab'.

Spain is all set to roll out a&nbsp;Covid-19 contact-tracing app in September, after a pilot project showed that it was capable of detecting twice as many potential infections as human tracers.
The pilot project was conducted on a tiny island near&nbsp;Tenerife&nbsp;in July, using a&nbsp;new system developed by Google and Apple and can detect contact with even strangers.
Participants entered a random code in the app, some of which falsely indicated a positive Covid-19 test and the app then alerted everyone who spent a minimum of 15 minutes at a proximity of 2 metres or less.&nbsp;
Several other nations are now looking to use similar harnessing technology to bolster the fight against the&nbsp;pandemic.

The World Health Organization has warned that, despite strong hopes for a vaccine, there might never be a "silver bullet"; for Covid-19. More than 18.14 million people around the world are reported to have been infected with the disease and 688,080​ have died. WHO Director-General urged all nations to rigorously enforce health measures such as mask wearing, social distancing, hand-washing and testing. 'Do it all' was the message to people and governments. Countries with high transmission rates, including Brazil and India, needed to brace for a big battle, the WHO said.

In a setback to Indian IT professionals eyeing the US job market, President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order preventing federal agencies from contracting or hiring foreign workers, mainly those on H-1B visa. Trump told reporters that his administration will not tolerate firing of hardworking Americans in the pursuit of cheap foreign labour. In a tweet, he said, H-1B should be used for top highly paid talent to create American jobs, not as inexpensive labour programmes. Trump's move comes a month after govt in June suspended the H-1B visa program along with other types of foreign work visas until the end of 2020 to protect American workers in an election year. The H1B visa, is the most sought-after among Indian IT professionals, it is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.

US President Donald Trump has called for re-sentencing death to the Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after a federal appeals court overturned the sentence.
Stating that so many lives were lost in the bombing, Trump in&nbsp;a tweet, wrote, "rarely has anybody deserved the death penalty more than the Boston Bomber".
He said the federal government must again seek the death sentence.&nbsp;
Tsarnaev, on April 15, 2013, killed three people and inured more than 260 people in Boston. He was convicted on 30 charges, including conspiracy and use of weapon of mass destruction.
The three judged bench however had said that regardless of the new trial's outcome, Tsarnaev will remain in prison for the rest of his life.

Another year, another wave of #FreeBritney posts hits the internet&nbsp;one more time. editorji goes the&nbsp;extra mile&nbsp;breaking down the popular hashtag and the&nbsp;toxic&nbsp;reason behind it.

In a reprieve for&nbsp;Kulbhushan&nbsp;Jadhav, the Islamabad High Court&nbsp;on&nbsp;Monday deferred his case till September 3 as it noted that India should be given a chance&nbsp;to appoint a lawyer to defend the former Indian Navy commander sentenced to death for&nbsp;his&nbsp;alleged involvement in spying.&nbsp;The Hindustan Times reported that the&nbsp;high court&nbsp;while noting that the lawyer should be a Pakistan national, instructed the Pakistan government to allow India to appoint the legal representative for&nbsp;Jadhav in the case.&nbsp;The offer to appoint a lawyer for Jadhav will be made through Pakistan&rsquo;s ministry of foreign affairs.&nbsp;The former Indian Navy commander has been given a death sentence by the Pakistani military&nbsp;court for his alleged involvement in espionage.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

White House Experts believe that&nbsp;the United States has entered a new phase of the novel coronavirus outbreak with the infection in rural areas as well as cities.
Health officials are now working with different governors to tackle the situation. Uptill now most cases of Covid-19 cases were seen in the cities. Now people living in rural areas have been asked to be cautious and wear masks to protect elderly from underlying conditions.
Admiral Brett Giroir, an assistant Health and Human Services secretary, stressed on wearing masks and warned the people that the worse is not over.
Covid-19 has infected over 4.6 million people in The United States and killed over 1.55.000 people.

Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume, who was responsible for ending violence in Northern Ireland, died at age 83.
Hume, a catholic leader of the moderate social Democratic and Labour Party, was seen as the principal architect behind the peace agreement.
As a civil rights leader in the Northern Irish civil rights movement in the 1960s, Hume believed that the real problem of division of Ireland was not drawn on the map but in the minds and hearts of its people.

&nbsp;An Islamic State group attack on a prison in eastern Afghanistan holding hundreds of its members raged on Monday after killing at least 21 people in fighting overnight, a local official said.
Another 43 people have been wounded in the attack in&nbsp;Jalalabad, the capital of&nbsp;Nangarhar&nbsp;province, that began late Sunday when an Islamic State suicide bomber slammed his explosive-laden vehicle into the entrance of a prison and other assailants opened fire.&nbsp;
Three attackers have been killed so far but the battle continued Monday with sporadic gunfire still coming from the prison grounds, a spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province said.
Some of the dead are prisoners as well as civilians, prison guards and Afghan security personnel.&nbsp;The Islamic State group's affiliate in Afghanistan, known as IS in Khorasan province, claimed responsibility for the attac

Despite being the 4th worst affected nation in the world due to the global pandemic, Russians ignored all the warnings and participated in running events on Sunday. Strangely, promoted by the government, the country saw competitions simultaneously happen in&nbsp;85 cities including Moscow despite having a ban on mass events. Organisers confirmed that over 17,000 people ran in Moscow while 8,000 people participated in St. Petersburg. Despite having 11 time zones in the nation, all events were organised at the same time and were promoted by the administration. Russia with over 8 &amp; half lakh&nbsp;cases so far is the 4th most-affected nation in the pandemic after India.&nbsp;&nbsp;

US astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour returned to Earth safely from the International Space Station after an unprecedented&nbsp;mission carried out jointly by SpaceX and NASA.
The spaceship made a water landing off the coast of Florida, the first splashdown of an American crew in 45 years, with the first commercially built and operated spacecraft to carry people to and from orbit.
The return clears the way for another SpaceX crew launch as early as next month and possible tourist flights next year.
It is a major win for Elon Musk&rsquo;s company which is currently the pioneer in the commercial space race. NASA said it is a new era of human spaceflight where NASA is the customer for the first time.
'Crew-1', the next SpaceX mission to ISS for 6 months is next in line with take-off set for late September.

The United Kingdom is considering to have Mahatma Gandhi's image on the British coins, the country's Chancellor of the Exchequer&nbsp;Rishi&nbsp;Sunak's&nbsp;office said on Monday. The idea that was originally proposed in October 2019 by his predecessor&nbsp;Sajid&nbsp;Javid&nbsp;will be implemented in&nbsp;an effort to celebrate the achievements of non-white people. In his letter to the Royal Mint Advisory Committee,&nbsp;Sunak&nbsp;has extended his support to the 'We Too Built Britain&nbsp;Campaign' and has recommended various designs and themes for the British coins. Sunak&nbsp;said that Black, Asian, and other ethnic minority&nbsp;groups have made a profound contribution to the shared history of Britain.&nbsp;

The Covid-19 outbreak has forced Victoria in&nbsp;Australia to declare a state of disaster with cases spiking&nbsp;rapidly.&nbsp;
The state has also imposed new restrictions across Melbourne from Sunday night.&nbsp;An evening curfew will be implemented in the city from 8 pm to 5 am.
The city's stay-at-home order will be enhanced, giving residents fewer exemptions for leaving home. They will&nbsp;not be allowed to travel further than 5 km from their homes, exercise will be restricted to once a day, and one person will be able to go shopping for essentials at a time.
Authorities have assured supermarkets, bakeries, grocery shops will not be impacted.
Australia has had fewer cases than many other countries, but cases are rising rapidly in Victoria.&nbsp;On Sunday, the state reported 671 new Covid-19 cases and seven deaths.

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