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From the BBC World Service: A raft of businesses and organizations running Microsoft’s Windows apps have been affected by a major global IT outage. Students in Bangladesh are continuing their blockade of roads across the country, in protest of a quota system on government jobs. You may think of Rome or Paris when asked about the caf\\xe9 capital of the world \\u2013 but China\\u2019s financial capital is becoming a new contender. At least that’s what Shanghai\\u2019s local government claims.
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