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🇨🇳 Despite global criticism, China is continuing to expand its network of more than 300 detention camps in the region of Xinjiang, a new report shows. https://bloom.bg/32XZr1C

💧 Meanwhile, a bottled-water and vaccine tycoon became China’s wealthiest person. Zhong Shanshan's fortune has jumped $51.9 billion in 2020, more than anyone else except Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. https://bloom.bg/33TwByy

✈️ And finally, Qantas Airways is selling $1,000 fully stocked bar carts from its retired 747s. The deal includes 80 mini bottles of wine, champagne and pajamas. https://bloom.bg/305onCd
🏢 The U.K. plans to protect jobs and businesses as the pandemic forces the country to readopt emergency measures. https://bloom.bg/2G2HINi

🏆 A year after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is struggling to keep peace at home. https://bloom.bg/3mPjMhq

✈️ Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter jets are luring buyers even though simulated combat tests may be delayed yet again. https://bloom.bg/369bOdb
🦠 The U.S. government’s description of a final coronavirus vaccine it plans to add to its multi-billion dollar “Operation Warp Speed” program closely matches the details of experimental inoculations being developed by Merck: https://bloom.bg/3cw3uVG

👕 Kanye West threatened to withhold his Yeezy Gap line unless he has a board seat: https://bloom.bg/366lVzg

🥂 Making wine in Lebanon has never been easy. But with every bottle exported, a bit of hope and resilience follows the disaster in Beirut: https://bloom.bg/2GbFP0H
💡This is why Covid-19 may be life-threatening for some patients. Scientists discover that insufficient amounts of proteins called interferons may lead to severe infections
— but that also holds clues for a possible treatment. https://bloom.bg/3csdO1d

✈️ Want to fly a Boeing? One airline is opening its simulators to the public, charging $381 for a 30-minute session for two people. https://bloom.bg/2GaZr53

🌳 And lastly, China is building eco-friendly cities with fresh air, clean water and beautiful landscaping. So why are they struggling to attract residents? Explore: https://bloom.bg/33WRSaH
🇰🇵 Kim Jong Un makes a rare apology for a killing by North Korea’s military, saying he is “very sorry” for the shooting of a South Korean national and the burning of his corpse. https://bloom.bg/3mPMkaz

🛥 The U.K.’s richest person, Brexit-backing billionaire Jim Ratcliffe, is now a Monaco resident. https://bloom.bg/2S00UOA

🏡 Sales of million-pound homes soar as Britain’s rich change their lifestyle after lockdown. https://bloom.bg/3kM6EYr
🚘 Prices for Tesla’s Model S could rise my nearly a third in Denmark as the country’s proposal to reduce carbon emissions would raise taxes for conventional and electric cars: https://bloom.bg/2RVtgt8

📱 Google plans to push harder for developers to give the company a cut of in-app purchases through its Play app store:: https://bloom.bg/3kOzXtr

🏠A lack of houses could threaten the U.S. housing boom. It's driving up prices and threatening to derail the boom by pushing homeownership out of reach for many Americans: https://bloom.bg/3mTPLNd
📱Donald Trump’s TikTok ban is temporarily blocked by a federal judge, dealing a blow to the U.S. government in its showdown with the popular Chinese-owned app. https://bloom.bg/2HFJWDj

💵 Meanwhile, the U.S. president paid just $750 in U.S. income taxes in both 2016 and 2017, according the New York Times. https://bloom.bg/335zbCh

🎶 And the stars of BTS are about to become multi-millionaires. The IPO of Big Hit, which manages the South Korean boy band, could give the company a market value of about $4 billion. https://bloom.bg/2Gk00JS
🚕 Uber was offered another chance in its biggest European market after a London judge ruled that the ride-hailing app is “fit and proper” to operate in the city. https://bloom.bg/339nTwP

📝 New questions about Donald Trump’s personal finances threaten to dog the president as he tries to breathe new life into his struggling campaign. https://bloom.bg/3i5yMUB

💺 The chances of coronavirus being transmitted in a plane are less than 1%, according to an ongoing study cited by an airline executive. https://bloom.bg/342Ciu9
🏦 The U.S. says a JPMorgan trading desk was a racketeering operation. Now the bank is set to pay a record $1 billion spoofing penalty; https://bloom.bg/30fERrL

⚪️ Amazon and Goldman Sachs are among 34 companies that have agreed to disclose private race, gender and ethnicity workforce data; https://bloom.bg/3i8U1VO

🚘 Check out what automakers had in store at the Beijing Auto Show as China hosts the only major automotive show of 2020; https://bloom.bg/3cEA73G
Hello 👋 Here’s what we’re following:

🌏 The world officially recorded 1 million deaths from Covid-19 in one of the most sobering milestones of the pandemic, but the real tally might be almost double that. Here’s why: https://bloom.bg/33cei8t

🇩🇪 Germany has its own Dr. Fauci — and residents actually follow his advice. Christian Drosten helped spare his country from the worst of the coronavirus, and now he’s worried about a fresh wave. https://bloom.bg/2S4x6QK

🇺🇸 And in Bloomberg Opinion, Timothy L. O’Brien writes that Donald Trump’s tax returns show he’s a national security threat. https://bloom.bg/2FZpM6M
📈 What’s moving markets? The Covid-19 death toll hit 1 million, the U.K. has avoided a rebellion over emergency powers and the first U.S. presidential debate is here. https://bloom.bg/3n49Twa

💵 Will the U.S. government decide on corona stimulus plan? That’s anyone’s guess as the Trump administration and congressional Democrats reach a fork in the road. https://bloom.bg/3cEd21b

👶 Surprise pregnancies surge in the Philippines and it’s time to put women issues “front and center,” a senator says. https://bloom.bg/3ik2AgE
🗽 New York City’s daily positive coronavirus rate eclipsed 3% for the first time in months, prompting Mayor de Blasio to mull another round of shutdowns; https://bloom.bg/2G9Cfom

💰JPMorgan agrees to pay $920 million to settle federal probes over its role in the manipulation of global metals and Treasurys markets; https://bloom.bg/36dU2W5

✋Amazon is in “active discussions” to introduce palm-scanning as a method for pay, entry in third-party stores; https://bloom.bg/3kYfouJ
🇺🇸 “Will you shut up, man?” The first U.S. presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden has involved lots of interrupting so far. We’re fact checking it all here: https://bloom.bg/3jiYtm0

👀 You can also watch how the whole thing is going down with our live updates and analysis: https://bloom.bg/2Shs0R7

🌃 And in non-debate news, this is how the world’s most expensive skyscraper deal turned sour. https://bloom.bg/36mHQ5l
🥊 Opinion: The Trump-Biden debate served little purpose other than to embarrass the U.S. https://bloom.bg/3jiv7Ej

📱 What did the banker charged with insider trading do before he handed his iPhone to the police officers? He deleted WhatsApp. https://bloom.bg/2Gfa1Zc

💉 A rapid Covid-19 test that returns results in 15 minutes has been cleared for use in countries that accept Europe’s CE markings. https://bloom.bg/3n2zZzV
🗣 The presidential debate commission is discussing format changes after Tuesday’s messy debacle between Biden, Trump: https://bloom.bg/3kVLx5W

✈️ U.S. airlines are planning to lay off nearly 50,000 workers unless Congress passes another round of payroll aid: https://bloom.bg/2Gni9Xo

🤳Vehicle tracking isn’t just for police anymore. For just $5 a month, anyone can turn their smartphone into a license plate reader: https://bloom.bg/3ibYt64
⚡ BREAKING: President Trump signed a stopgap funding bill to avert a U.S. government shutdown weeks before the election. That's set to keep operations running until Dec. 11. https://bloom.bg/33jEo9L

❌ The world’s third-largest stock exchange halted trading for the entire day due to a hardware problem. It’s the worst-ever breakdown for the Tokyo Stock Exchange. https://bloom.bg/3jmIqnw

🇮🇳 Just 8% of confirmed coronavirus cases later led to an explosion of Covid-19 infections in India, research in two southern states shows. It's the first major study of transmission in a developing country, and offers clues on the impact of super-spreaders. https://bloom.bg/3l2O2DL
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⚖️ The EU is launching legal proceedings against the U.K and Boris Johnson’s plans to breach terms of the Brexit divorce. https://bloom.bg/3l3qLBD

🏢 The risk of a housing-market bubble is increasing across the globe but better watch out particularly for Munich, Frankfurt, Toronto and Hong Kong. https://bloom.bg/3idk9Pi

💵 President Donald Trump has avoided a shutdown by approving stopgap spending that will keep the government operating until Dec. 11. https://bloom.bg/30nmFwk
📉 U.S. initial jobless claims fell by 36,000 from last week, but slow labor market recovery is keeping unemployment above pre-Covid levels: https://bloom.bg/3ims50L

🇮🇳 A collective of India-based startups is attempting to supplant Big Tech’s supremacy over the country’s digital enterprises: https://bloom.bg/3l8SXTL

🏙 The work-from-home shift spurred by the coronavirus pandemic is causing rent in big cities to plunge while small(er) city living is in high demand: https://bloom.bg/3cNv80y
⚡ Breaking: Hope Hicks, one of President Donald Trump’s closest aides, has tested positive for coronavirus, sources say. https://bloom.bg/2G8rSkP

🏦 Another development: The U.S. House has passed a $2.2 trillion fiscal stimulus package despite no Republican support. Sharp differences remain on the scale of coronavirus relief. https://bloom.bg/34lkTwG

🇯🇵 And lastly, the Tokyo Stock Exchange resumed trading after its worst-ever outage. Japanese stocks advanced. https://bloom.bg/3l2bzVp