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(TechInnovation) Tailor Brands raises $50M, aims to be one-stop shop for small businesses to launch (TechCrunch)

Christine Hall writes for TechCrunch: Tailor Brands, a startup that automates parts of the branding and marketing process for small businesses, announced Thursday it...
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(TechInnovation) Untitled Ventures joins the scramble for Russian & Eastern European startups with a $118M warchest (TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher writes for TechCrunch: Sorry Mr. Putin, but there’s a race on for Russian and Eastern European founders. And right now, those awful...
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(TechInnovation) Yoobic raises $50M for its chat and communications app app aimed at frontline and service workers (TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden writes for TechCrunch: Slack set the standard in many ways for what knowledge workers want and expect out of a workplace collaboration...
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(TechInnovation) B2B social management platform Oktopost raises $20M growth round with Expedition (TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher writes for TechCrunch: With the pandemic forcing people online, social media use exploded, for obvious reasons. And with that, the opportunity to...
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(TechInnovation) India’s BlackBuck valued at $1 billion in $67 million fundraise (TechCrunch)

Manish Singh writes for TechCrunch: India’s trucking system has a big inefficiency problem that continues to drag the economy. BlackBuck, one of the handful of startups...
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(TechInnovation) Indonesia “sea-to-table” platform Aruna hooks $35M led by Prosus and East Ventures Growth Fund (TechCrunch)

Catherine Shu writes for TechCrunch: When Aruna’s founders first met at university, they wanted to find a way to use their studies in information...
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(TechInnovation) Rivian plans to install EV chargers in Tennessee’s 56 state parks (TechCrunch)

Aria Alamalhodaei writes for TechCrunch: Rivian electric vehicle charging stations are coming to yet another state park system. The EV startup said it would...
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(Haiti) ‘If a president is killed in his own home, who is exempt?’ (Al Jazeera)

Jessica Obert writes for Al Jazeera: Following the news of Haitian President Jovenel Moise’s assassination in the early hours of July 7, a state of collective...
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(Human Rights/Aluminium Abuses) Rights groups call on carmakers to address aluminium abuses (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Rights groups have called on car manufacturers to do more to address abuses in their aluminium supply chains, including the destruction...
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(Kenya/Al Shabab) The Kenyans robbed of their families by al-Shabab (Al Jazeera)

 Osman Osman writes for Al Jazeera: Amina* sits close to the edge of her modest home in Garissa, a county in northern Kenya bordering Somalia....
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(Israel) Israel launches commission to probe Pegasus spyware: Legislator (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Israel has established a commission to review allegations that NSO Group’s controversial Pegasus phone surveillance software was misused amid a hacking...
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(Iran/Strait of Hormuz) Iran opens oil terminal to bypass strategic Strait of Hormuz (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Outgoing President Hassan Rouhani has said Iran opened its first oil terminal in the Gulf of Oman, a move that will allow...
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(USA/Haiti) Announcement of Daniel Foote as Special Envoy for Haiti (US Department of State)

The Department of State is pleased to announce that Ambassador Daniel Foote, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, will serve as its...
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(USA/South Korea) Deputy Secretary Sherman’s Meeting with Republic of Korea Foreign Minister Chung (US Department of State)

The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R. Sherman met with Republic of Korea (ROK) Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong...
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(USA/South Korea) Deputy Secretary Sherman’s Meeting with Republic of Korea Minister of Unification Lee and Republic of Korea Vice Minister of Unification Choi (US...

The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R. Sherman met with Republic of Korea Minister of Unification Lee In-young...
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(USA/China) Launch Arms-Control Talks with China (Defense One)

Louie Reckford writes for Defense One: Reporting on China’s buildup of silos that could house nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles caused a new round of calls for the...
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