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Worldwide : 3.19M were infected; 227K have died and 972K have recovered.
*Data as per Wednesday.

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Acclaimed actor Irrfan Khan passed away on Wednesday in Mumbai’s Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, after a long battle with cancer. He was 53. The actor’s spokesperson in a statement on Tuesday evening had said he had been admitted to the ICU, following a colon infection. However, the actor’s health deteriorated, and he breathed his last on Wednesday. He was cremated at a burial ground in Versova.
Irrfan was also one of the few Indian stars to seamlessly transition from Bollywood to Hollywood, read one of India’s biggest exports to the West. And his first exposure was British filmmaker Asif Kapadia’s The Warrior (2001). What followed were pivotal roles in big budget Hollywood flicks like Jurassic World, Inferno and The Amazing Spider-Man to successful crossover dramas such as The Namesake, Slumdog Millionaire and Life of Pi.(TOI)

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Boeing outlined a survival plan including thousands of job cuts, while General Electric said it was cutting $2 billion in costs to offset falling sales and profits, as its aviation business was hit hard.(WSJ)

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The F.D.A. plans to authorize emergency use of a coronavirus treatment. Dr. Anthony Fauci expressed cautious optimism about early trial results.

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The Trump administration slammed Amazon.com over intellectual-property rights, putting five of the online retailer’s foreign platforms on a list of “notorious markets” believed to facilitate sales of counterfeit and pirated goods.

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Oil price jumps 15% after reports that a key measure of storage demand was 2 million barrels lower than expected. Oil prices rebounded on Wednesday, after reports that a key measure of oil inventories showed lower than expected demand for storage and oil-focused exchange traded-funds appear to have finished selling June futures contracts.(Business Insider)

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The Pentagon has officially released three unclassified videos showing encounters of US naval aircraft with “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP), or UFOs (unidentified flying object) in popular slang. The videos had already been in circulation in the public domain ever since their unauthorised leaks in 2007 and 2017 — the first leak showing an incident that occurred in 2004 while the second leak showed two incidents that happened in 2015.

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