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Guo Hui, whose cleaning business is owed 20 million yuan ($3.1 million) by embattled real estate giant China Evergrande, is counting on the government to fix a crisis that has left his own company on the brink of bankruptcy.

Chinese Estates Holdings said on Thursday it has sold $32 million worth of its Evergrande stake and plans to exit the holding completely.

Authorities said the man broke strict COVID-19 quarantine rules and spread the virus to others, state media reported.

The iPhone maker is accused of abusing its dominant position in the app market by forcing developers to use its purchase system, Reuters reports.

Executives from Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and IBM are going to the White House Wednesday to discuss cybersecurity as Congress weighs legislation.

Eerie images show the remains of the Italian village of Curon, which was abandoned in 1950 to create a hydroelectric plant.

Tesla is looking to get into the multi-billion dollar US renewable credit market, sources say. The move could be a massive boon for its bottom line.

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co's chief executive officer, Mary Barra, received a compensation package worth $22.6 million in 2020, 4.6% more than the previous year, according to the U.S. automaker’s proxy statement released on Friday.

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy reported 263 coronavirus-related deaths on Friday against 288 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily tally of new infections fell to 13,446 from 14,320.

KABUL (Reuters) - A huge blast in Afghanistan's eastern Logar province killed at least 27 people on Friday, a senior official said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - California's effort to extradite Harvey Weinstein on rape and sexual assault charges was delayed on Friday, and the convicted former movie producer will have another 30 days to challenge its latest effort to bring him to court.

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co is targeting not only the elimination of tailpipe emissions by 2035 on all light vehicles it sells, but the largest U.S. automaker also is looking to clean up its own operations with goals it outlined on Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lebanon and Israel will resume U.S.-mediated talks on a dispute about their Mediterranean Sea border on Tuesday after the arrival of a team from Washington, a U.S. State Department statement said on Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China has fallen short on its commitments to protect American intellectual property in the 'Phase 1' U.S.-China trade deal signed last year, the Biden administration's trade office said in a new report issued on Friday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - BNSF, the railroad unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc, is prepared to handle any increase in rail traffic if the Dakota Access oil pipeline (DAPL) is shut due to an ongoing legal dispute, the company told Reuters.

FONTAINEBLEAU, France (Reuters) - Private collectors have a rare opportunity next week to buy some of Napoleon Bonaparte's DNA when a blood-stained cloth placed over his body during an autopsy goes on sale at an auction to mark the 200th anniversary of his death.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday barred eight officials from European Union countries from entering the country in retaliation for sanctions imposed on Russian citizens by the EU.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Friday said it had lifted travel restrictions for U.S. visitors who have recently been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), but left them in place for Guinea travelers over address Ebola concerns.

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia has deployed more police and army units to Cali, its third-biggest city, in a bid to end disturbances and vandalism amid protests against a controversial tax reform, the defense minister said on Friday.

LONDON (Reuters) - A total of more than 34.2 million in Britain have been given a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, government statistics showed on Friday, while a further 2,381 had contracted the disease, down slightly on the day before.

(Reuters) - Twitter Inc will struggle to replicate a bumper 2020 dominated by the U.S. political battles, civil unrest and the COVID-19 crisis as people venture out following vaccine rollouts, Wall Street analysts said on Friday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A brutal boxing tournament in Russia that pits bare-knuckle fighters against each other in short, bloody bouts has surged in popularity on social networks during the coronavirus pandemic.

(Reuters) - AT&T shareholders on Friday voted against a measure to approve executive compensation, according to preliminary voting results from the company's annual meeting.

CARACAS (Reuters) - A U.S.-backed effort to send aid to Venezuela in 2019 that ended in a violent standoff on the Colombian border was not planned in alignment with humanitarian principles, according to an audit by the Washington-based aid agency involved in the operation.

LONDON (Reuters) - A single dose of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine may not generate a sufficient immune response to protect against dominant new variants, except in people who have already been infected with COVID-19, a UK study has found.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer spending rebounded in March amid a surge in income as households received additional COVID-19 pandemic relief money from the government, building a strong foundation for a further acceleration in consumption in the second quarter.

LONDON (Reuters) - The first police officer in Britain to be convicted of a terrorism offence was jailed for more than four years on Friday for belonging to a banned neo-Nazi group and possessing extremist material.

(Reuters) - Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan on Friday warned of imbalances in U.S. financial markets and said he now believes the economy will meet the benchmarks the central bank set out for trimming its bond buying sooner than he had anticipated.

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's drug regulator has said that Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine can be given to pregnant women with co-morbidities or at high risk of contracting the coronavirus.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday that he expects the United States to send Mexico around 5 million doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House Council on Environmental Quality expects to submit a plan for helping clean up the nation's most polluted communities to President Joe Biden within weeks, according to the council's new chair, Brenda Mallory.

ABOARD THE KRI DR. SOEHARSO, Indonesia, (Reuters) - Crying out the names of their loved ones as they scattered flower petals into the ocean, relatives of the 53 Indonesian navy crew members who died in a sunken submarine paid tribute at a ceremony at sea on Friday.

PARIS (Reuters) - Some EU countries still want Brussels to strike a deal to buy Valneva's COVID-19 vaccine candidate despite a recent setback in talks, as the bloc aim to shore up and diversify supplies, sources familiar with the talks told Reuters.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - TikTok appointed Shouzi Chew, a Singaporean national, as the new Chief Executive Officer of the hot video-sharing platform, the company said on Friday.

(Reuters) - Record demand to invest in sustainable investment funds saw the sector's total assets rise 19% to a fresh high of nearly $2 trillion in the first quarter, data from industry tracker Morningstar showed.

ROME (Reuters) - Italy has hit its target of administering 500,000 COVID-19 vaccinations in a single day, Health Minister Roberto Speranza said on Friday.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization expects to release its assessments for emergency use listing of the two main Chinese vaccines for COVID-19 as well as the Moderna shot by the end of next week, WHO Assistant Director-General Mariangela Simao said on Friday.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on Friday that she believed that a solution regarding Italy's plan to set up a new airline to replace cash-strapped Alitalia can be found, stressing that the new carrier should be independent from the old one.

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway said on Friday it will extend the time between first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccines to 12 from six weeks for most adults under the age of 65 in order to reach its first vaccination target sooner than planned.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's younger dog, Major, is back at the White House after extra training - including spending time with some cats - to address biting incidents, first lady Jill Biden said in an NBC interview broadcast on Friday.

GENEVA (Reuters) - British trade minister Liz Truss expects the trade dispute over Airbus and Boeing to be resolved by July when a freeze on tit-for-tat tariffs expires, she told Reuters on Friday.

(Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc's widely anticipated annual meeting on Saturday will be held virtually for a second year but reclaim one bit of normalcy as Charlie Munger rejoins fellow billionaire Warren Buffett to answer shareholder questions.

BENGALURU (Reuters) - Doctors and scientists in India are warning of the dire hazards of trying to make medical oxygen at home as the country faces a shortage of the gas in its COVID-19 battle and various videos and tips on DIY methods do the rounds on social media.

LONZEE, Belgium (Reuters) - A Belgian chocolate company that put white masks on its Easter bunnies a year ago is now producing large chocolate syringes as it tries to keep step with the evolving trend of the coronavirus pandemic.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Hospitalisations and deaths from COVID-19 have started declining after four weeks of slowing infections in Brazil, the World Health Organization said on Friday.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian authorities this week destroyed more than 22,000 guns collected by police, melting them down into some 60 tonnes of recycled steel.

LONDON (Reuters) - The estimated range for the COVID-19 reproduction "R" number in England has inched higher, Britain's health ministry said on Friday, and is estimated between 0.8 and 1.1.