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Residents barricaded indoors, rival gang fights and no-go zones for humans. Welcome to Lopburi, an ancient Thai city overrun by monkeys super-charged on junk food, whose population is growing out of control. Pointing to the overhead netting covering her terrace, Kuljira Taechawattanawanna bemoans the monkey menace across the heart of the 13th-century city in the central province of the same name. “We live in a cage but the monkeys live outside,” she tells AFP. “Their excrement is everywhere, the smell is unbearable especially when it rains.” The fearless primates rule the streets around the Prang Sam Yod temple in the centre of Lopburi, patrolling the tops of...

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More than 4,700 people are dying every 24 hours from COVID-19-linked illness, according to Reuters calculations based on an average from June 1 to 27. That equates to 196 people per hour, or one person every 18 seconds. The number of coronavirus deaths worldwide passed the 500,000 mark on Sunday, with more than a quarter of all deaths occurring in the United States, according to Johns Hopkins University. The grim milestone came after India and Russia added thousands of new COVID-19 cases, and surges of new infections hit several U.S. states, pushing the global number of infections past 10 million. Over 5 million are listed as recovered. The U.S. remained the No. 1 nation in both...

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The world is about to hit a devastating milestone: half a million people dead, killed by the coronavirus pandemic that has swept the planet. As of Saturday afternoon, global deaths totaled 496,075, according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center. That includes more than 125,000 deaths in the United States, which has lost more people to COVID-19 than any other country, and has seen more than twice the deaths as Brazil, the next most-stricken country with about 56,000 dead. The planet will also soon see another significant mark: 10 million cases of the virus. As of Saturday evening, there were more than 9.89 million confirmed infections. And experts say there are...

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) appears to have recently added three new symptoms of the novel coronavirus to its ongoing list. Congestion or runny nose, nausea, and diarrhea were added, joining the federal agency's list that already included fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell and sore throat. “This list does not include all possible symptoms. CDC will continue to update this list as we learn more about COVID-19,” per the CDC. The new symptoms were quietly added, with one news outlet reporting that the changes were made on May...

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With the Covid-19 pandemic halting many of the world's commercial airline flights, some in the aviation industry have had to find alternative ways to earn an income while grounded. Pilots are no exception. In Thailand, where domestic tourism is only just starting to pick up this month following an easing in lockdown restrictions, some aviators have shifted from the skies to the roads, taking on jobs delivering food by motorbike or as drivers for car-hailing apps.These include co-pilot Nakarin Inta, who has been a commercial pilot for about four years. He's now delivering orders for Line Man, a local messenger app. "Some [airline staff] have been on leave without pay," he tells CNN...

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LOCATION: Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Calif. PRICE: $3.995 million SIZE: 4,102 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, plus two 1-bed/1-bath guesthouses Sitcom superstar Kunal Nayyar, in recent years one of the highest paid actors on television due to his lucrative, long-running role on “The Big Bang Theory,” and his wife, former Miss India turned fashion designer Neha Kapur, have hung a not quite $4 million price tag on their remarkably private former home that is discreetly tucked into a quiet, little-known pocket of the star-studded Nichols Canyon area of L.A’s Hollywood Hills. Nayyar and Kapur acquired the secluded compound about 8.5 years ago for $2.85...

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More than 750,000 families in Hong Kong public housing should get two months of free accommodation to soften the impact of a 10 per cent rent rise, the housing minister has said. The combination of the proposed waiver and the higher rent would see tenants paying 0.4 per cent more over the coming two years, amounting to an increase of between HK$2 and HK$21 a month. Average rent for the city’s public housing tenants is HK$2,072 (US$267) per month. “Having considered the local and global economic downturns, and the uncertainty ahead due to the coronavirus pandemic, we understand that the public would like us to consider rent exemption and rent freezing measures to relieve the...

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The former Kennedy family estate in Palm Beach, Florida, that had been in the stewardship of New York billionaire Jane Goldman since 2015 has sold for $70 million in an off-market deal, property records show. Located on North Ocean Boulevard with 200 feet of ocean frontage, the approximately one-acre property has a 1920s Mediterranean-style main residence and outbuildings with a total of 15,347 square feet of living space, including 11 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms and three half-bathrooms, according to a previous listing. Ms. Goldman, a billionaire real estate investor and co-chairman of the real estate investment company Solil Management, bought the compound in 2015 for $31 million via a...

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Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is now among the world's top 10 wealthiest people. His net worth recently surged to $64.5 billion, edging out Oracle's Larry Ellison and French L'Oreal heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers for the No. 9 spot on the list, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Ambani is the only person from Asia on the list. Under Ambani's leadership, Reliance has grown from an oil and energy company into a sprawling conglomerate that includes retail shops, a mobile and broadband carrier, digital platforms and more. This new milestone comes shortly after Ambani amassed more than $16.5 billion in investments in just around three months for Reliance's digital...

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Health authorities in South Korea said for the first time on Monday (June 22) it is in the midst of a "second wave" of novel coronavirus infections around Seoul, driven by small but persistent outbreaks stemming from a holiday in May. The Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) had previously said South Korea's first wave had never really ended. But on Monday, KCDC director Jeong Eun-kyeong said it had become clear that a holiday weekend in early May marked the beginning of a new wave of infections focused in the densely populated greater Seoul area, which had previously seen few cases. “In the metropolitan area, we believe that the first wave was from March to...

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