Indian stock markets are likely to be under pressure on Friday tracking weak global cues. Investors will be also watching out gross domestic product (GDP) data due to be released later today.

Trends in SGX Nifty, with a 13-point loss, indicate soft opening of Indian benchmark indices. Asian shares were down in choppy trade as worries about worsening US-China ties offset the fillip from hopes massive government stimulus can jump-start the world economy.

Underscoring the ambivalence in markets, US stocks slid from a near three-month high in a late sell-off overnight, after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would weaken laws protecting social media companies, and said he'd hold a news conference about China on Friday.

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Man found shot in Kensington driven to hospital by officers, police say

Police found a 36-year-old man shot inside a Jeep and drove him to the hospital in critical condition. PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police officers responding to reports of a shooting found a man badly wounded inside a car and rushed the victim to an area hospital. According to investigators, the shooting happened on the 1800 block of East Allegheny Avenue in Kensington around 6:30 p.m.

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Unrest demonstrates Biden's challenge in showing leadership

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump spent much of Sunday using Twitter as a bullhorn to urge “law and order” and tougher action by police against protestors around the country. Joe Biden quietly visited the site of protests in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, and talked to some of the demonstrators. Earlier, he wrote a post on Medium expressing empathy for those despairing about the killing of George Floyd.

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President Trump says US will designate ‘Antifa’ as a ‘terrorist organization’

Governors in several states called in National Guard troops as protests over repeated police killings of black men grew Saturday from New York to Tulsa to Los Angeles, where police fired rubber bullets to scatter crowds and at least one police car burned.

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Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg might be mostly right about Twitter

The view that people want to consume truth, or that they should consume truth alone, is contestable

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Donald Trump praises SpaceX mission and says 'new age of American ambition has begun'

Donald Trump has declared a "new age of American ambition" after the launch of a historic space mission.

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Trump condemns protesters, calls death of George Floyd a ‘tragedy’

Days after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, people took to the streets in protest in dozens of cities around the country.

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Launch provides Trump moment to relish during difficult week

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – President Donald Trump celebrated on Saturday the first launch of American astronauts from U.S. soil in nearly a decade, marveling at the power of the rocket ship and the danger faced by its passengers as they soared into the stratosphere and provided a moment of triumph as the country raged and mourned.

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National Guard summoned to aid US cities amid police clashes

Georgia’s governor declares a state of emergency to activate the state National Guard as violence flared in Atlanta

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Thousands ignore Minneapolis curfew as U.S. protests spread

MINNEAPOLIS – Thousands of protesters ignored a curfew and vows of a forceful police response to take to the Minneapolis streets for a fourth straight night, as the anger stoked by the death of George Floyd in police custody spread to more cities across the U.S.

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George Floyd death: Protests erupt across U.S., some turn violent

ATLANTA (AP) — Demonstrators marched, stopped traffic and in some cases lashed out violently at police as protests erupted Friday in dozens of U.S. cities following the killing of George Floyd after a white officer pressed a knee into his neck while taking him into custody in Minnesota.

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Biden speaks of racial 'open wound,' contrasting with Trump

WASHINGTON – Joe Biden lamented the “open wound” of the nation's systemic racism on Friday as he responded to the police killing of a black man in Minnesota. He drew an implicit contrast with President Donald Trump, who has suggested authorities could respond with violence to the protests that followed George Floyd’s death.

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National Guard summoned to aid cities amid police clashes

ATLANTA – Georgia’s governor declared a state of emergency early Saturday to activate the state National Guard as violence flared in Atlanta and in dozens of cities nationwide following the killing in Minnesota of George Floyd after a white officer pressed a knee into his neck while taking him into custody.

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Trump walks back his incendiary Minneapolis 'thugs' post

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has tried to walk back his post-midnight “thugs” tweet about Minneapolis protesters that added to outrage over the police killing of a black man.

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Trump's tweet about rioters echoes 1960s Miami police chief

CHICAGO – President Donald Trump's tweeted warning Friday amid unrest in Minneapolis that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” echoes the language of a Miami police chief in 1967 who made clear his distaste for civil rights activists and his belief that violent protests should be met with deadly force.

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'I can't breathe' a rally cry anew for police protests in US

WASHINGTON – “I can’t breathe.”

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Sanofi stops enrolling COVID-19 patients in hydroxychloroquine trials amid safety concerns

The moves come after the WHO paused its hydroxychloroquine trial after The Lancet reported patients getting the drug had increased death rates and irregular heartbeats

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Minneapolis Police Station Set on Fire, as George Floyd Killing Protests Continue

Thick smoke hovered over Minneapolis on Friday, hours after cheering protesters torched a police station that officers abandoned as a third night of violent protests flared over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer knelt on his neck. Police evacuated the 3rd Precinct station, the focus of many of the protests, late Thursday to protect employees, a spokesman said.

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Donald Trump Appears To Call For Violence Against Minnesota Protesters In Loaded ‘Thugs’ Tweet

It’s one thing to see Donald Trump up all night tweeting meaningless blabber about his favorite shows on Fox News.

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Trump Gets Warning Label On Tweet For ‘Glorifying Violence’ About MN Protests After George Floyd Death

Twitter placed a warning label on one of Donald Trump‘s tweets, saying that the president was “glorifying violence” by threatening to shoot protestors in Minneapolis. The protestors, who are rallying after an unarmed Black man, George Floyd, 46, died after telling police he couldn’t breathe during an arrest, have taken to the streets of Minnesota’s biggest city to demand justice.

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Jimmy Kimmel Makes Fun Of Trump’s Threat To Shut Down Twitter With His ‘Angry Little Thumbs’

Jimmy Kimmel isn’t taking Donald Trump’s threats seriously.

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President Trump calls Floyd death 'shocking,' calls protesters 'thugs'; Twitter adds warning to tweet

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Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for 'glorifying violence'

Twitter hid a tweet from President Donald Trump, accusing him of breaking its rules by 'glorifying violence' in a message that said looters at protests in Minneapolis would be shot

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Trump tries a new response after George Floyd's death

WASHINGTON – It was the kind of personal statement expected from a president in response to the disturbing video of a black man gasping for help as a white policeman pinned him to the street by the neck. But it was a very different tone for President Donald Trump, who has often been silent in the face of white-on-black violence and has a long history of defending police.

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Market LIVE: Investors to eye GDP data; Sensex, Nifty seen under pressure

Welcome to Mint live blog. Track this space for latest news and updates on stock markets.

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Trump tries a new response after George Floyd's death

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Coronavirus a very bad 'gift' from China to the world: Donald Trump

Amid the novel coroanviurs outbreak in the world that has infected more than 5 million people and killed over 350,000, the United States of America's President Donald Trump blamed China by saying that the country gave a very bad "gift" to the world.

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Covid-19 tests: Number of patients tested in the US is 5 times more than India. A comparison

USA has conducted more than 15 million tests, President Donald Trump on Wednesday informed on Twitter, adding that it is 'by far the most in the world.' India has increased its testing capacity by manifold and is testing over 1 lakh cases per day.

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US passes grim milestone of 1 lakh coronavirus deaths

The United States has surpassed the grim milestone of 100,000 coronavirus deaths. Confirmed US deaths stood at 100,418, with nearly 1.7 million infections, according to the tally compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Nevertheless, most US states moved toward reopening restaurants and businesses. The US capital Washington will ease its lockdown from Friday.

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Anderson Cooper Unloads On Trump As U.S. Pandemic Death Toll Surpasses 100,000: ‘What A Little Man’

America hit a sad milestone on Wednesday as the U.S. death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic surpassed 100,000.

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It’s a big day for both the Space Coast and the nation as two astronauts will be launched into orbit from American soil, weather permitting, for the first time since 2011.

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Kathy Griffin sparks outrage by tweeting President Donald Trump should ‘inject air’

Kathy Griffin has sparked controversy after tweeting that President Donald Trump should inject himself with air.

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Trump defends tweets on Joe Scarborough murder conspiracy theory

U.S. President Donald Trump defended his recent tweets relating to a conspiracy theory involving TV host Joe Scarborough and a former aide who died at his office during Scarborough’s time in Congress.

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Markets seen volatile as US-China tension rise; Reliance shares in focus

Indian stock markets may continue to stay volatile on Wednesday tracking mixed global cues. Trends in SGX Nifty suggest a flat opening of Indian benchmark indices.

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Trump accuses Twitter of 'interfering' in election after fact-check added to mail-in ballot tweets

The new rule is the latest in a wave of stricter policies that tech companies are rolling out to confront an outbreak of virus-related misinformation on their sites. Facebook and Google, which owns YouTube, have already put similar systems in place.

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HQC given under supervision, side effects can be addressed: Indo-American doctor

NEW YORK : An eminent Indian-American doctor has said that hydroxychloroquine, which President Donald Trump took to ward off the COVID-19, is given under medical supervision and any side-effect can be addressed, acknowledging that the drug has become a victim of politics in the US.

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Widower: Delete Trump Tweets suggesting wife was murdered

WASHINGTON – The husband of a woman who died accidentally in an office of then-GOP Rep. Joe Scarborough two decades ago is demanding that Twitter remove President Donald Trump’s tweets suggesting Scarborough, now a fierce Trump critic, murdered her.

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Covid-19: WHO suspends trial of hydroxychloroquine over pending safety data

The World Health Organization halted the hydroxychloroquine arm of its Covid-19 drug trials pending more data because of safety concerns.

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White House sets coronavirus travel ban on Brazil

WASHINGTON - The White House on Sunday broadened its travel ban against countries hard-hit by the coronavirus by denying admission to foreigners who have been in Brazil during the two-week period before they hoped to enter the U.S.

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White House imposes coronavirus travel ban on Brazil

WASHINGTON – The White House on Sunday broadened its travel ban against countries hard-hit by the coronavirus by denying admission to foreigners who have been in Brazil during the two-week period before they hoped to enter the U.S.

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Boris Johnson bowing to pressure to cut Huawei out of UK’s 5G development

BORIS Johnson is bowing to pressure and planning to cut Huawei out of the UK’s 5G development.

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As Covid-19 death toll nears 100,000 in US, Trump tweets fatalities, cases down

Washington: The number of COVID-19 cases and related fatalities in the US is coming down, US President Donald Trump said on Sunday, even as the country inched closer to the grim milestone of 100,000 deaths from the deadly coronavirus.

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Wuhan lab head calls virus leak claims 'pure fabrication'

NEW YORK – Claims promoted by the Trump administration that the global coronavirus pandemic originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the central Chinese city are a “pure fabrication," the institute's director said.

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Spain relaxes lockdown as South America named new epicentre

Spain said Saturday it will let in foreign tourists and restart top league football in the coming weeks, accelerating Europe's exit of strict virus lockdown, as South America is labelled "a new epicentre" by the World Health Organization.

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Trump plays golf for 1st time since the coronavirus pandemic

STERLING, Va. – President Donald Trump played golf Saturday for the first time since he declared the coronavirus pandemic a national emergency more than two months ago, leading to the shutdown of much of American society. His return to the course was the latest sign that he wants the country back to pre-outbreak times, even as the U.S. death toll from the virus nears 100,000, twice what he once predicted it would be.

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Large study finds malaria drugs touted by Trump linked to greater risk of death in COVID-19 patients

BOSTON - Malaria drugs pushed by President Donald Trump as treatments for the coronavirus did not help and were tied to a greater risk of death and heart rhythm problems in a new study of nearly 100,000 patients around the world.

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Reporters Alcindor, Collins, Jiang get under Trump's skin

NEW YORK – To anyone who's watched, there's more that binds Yamiche Alcindor, Kaitlan Collins and Weijia Jiang than an impromptu display of teamwork at a recent White House news conference.

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HCQ, the drug championed by Trump, linked to higher Covid-19 death rates: Study

Antimalaria drugs that U.S. President Donald Trump has touted for treatment of Covid-19 were linked to an increased risk of death and heart ailments in a study.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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