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UN Watch urges donor countries to defund UN agency for Palestinians, says it made no effort to address past complaints

Unacademy has raised $440 million in a new financing round as the Indian online learning startup looks to expand into multiple additional categories. Temasek led the Bangalore-based startup’s new financing round while Mirae Asset and existing investors including SoftBank Vision

Efforts to boost vaccination rates by mandating proof to attend public events is largely working, but pockets of resistance draw together groups from political extremes

In a blockbuster deal that rocks the fintech world, Square announced today that it is acquiring Australian buy now, pay later giant Afterpay in a $29 billion all-stock deal. The purchase price is based on the closing price of Square

People who say they lost large sums to fraudulent trading firms are seeking justice in civil court, though they face webs of shell companies and opaque ownership structures

With players forced to don own medals, Russian-Israeli tennis player accidentally picks up the gold for his partner after they came second in Olympic mixed doubles tennis

A Belarus track sprinter alleged her Olympic team tried to remove her from Japan in a dispute that led to a standoff Sunday evening at Tokyo’s main airport. An activist group supporting Krystsina Tsimanouskaya said she believed her life was

The 100 meters at the Olympics is the event that turns sprinters into kings: Jesse Owens, Carl Lewis, Usain Bolt. On one of the most unusual nights the sport has ever seen, fans, experts, and even the racers themselves needed

Wildfires are continuing to rage in Turkey, Greece, and Italy, with entire villages being evacuated.

Death toll from five days of massive wildfires rises to eight; EU sending firefighting planes; riot-control water cannons drafted to help fight blazes