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Elon Musk relaunched a subscription service for Twitter on Monday after a first attempt saw an embarrassing spate of fake accounts that scared advertisers and cast doubt on the site s future. Elon Musk: Twitter logo and a photo of Elon Musk are seen. Reuters The first try last month came just 10 days after Musk s $44 billion takeover of the influential
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The Covid-19 virus either emerged naturally from human contact with infected animals or it was a laboratory accident, the US intelligence community said on Thursday. Covid-19 was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019. More than 168 million co
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