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A doctor checks on a Covid-19 patient in the ICU ward at the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart, Germany, on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that Germany faces hard lockdown measures into late March if authorities fail to contain a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus. Photographer: Andreas Gebert/Bloomberg

Germany Posts Highest Daily Death Toll as Infection Gauge Eases

Germany’s daily coronavirus death toll rose by the most since the pandemic began, amid tentative signs that the infection rate is starting to come down.

U.S. President Donald Trump departs the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. Trump plans to tout completed sections of his border wall in Texas on Tuesday, his first public event since encouraging supporters who went on to attack the U.S. Capitol last week.

Trump Pardons Bannon, Lil Wayne, Broidy, But Not Himself

Donald Trump granted clemency to dozens of people on Tuesday, including his former strategist Steve Bannon, the rapper Lil Wayne and former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, in one of his final official acts as president.

Allen Zhang, senior executive vice president at Tencent Holdings Ltd. and founder of the company's WeChat app, speaks during his keynote speech at the WeChat Open Class Pro conference in Guangzhou, China, on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. WeChat, the social network that is nearly ubiquitous in China, said at the conference that it has 580,000 mini-programs in operation.

Tencent Seeks Video Breakthrough After $240 Billion Lite App Hit

WeChat creator Allen Zhang is counting on a breakthrough in video to thwart TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd., building on the success of his last big overhaul of the all-in-one messaging app.

A wind turbine stands in a field of agricultural crops in this aerial photograph of farm land near Hamburg, Germany, on Tuesday, June 16, 2015. German investor confidence fell for a third month in a sign that risks from a Greek debt default to bond-market turbulence are stoking uncertainty in Europe's largest economy. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg

Global Fund With 41% Gain Makes Climate Top Investment Priority

A Melbourne-based global equity fund manager has raised climate-related issues to the top of his investment priority list as major economies and companies step up their environmental ambitions.

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