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India overtook Brazil in coronavirus infection numbers on September 7, 2020 making it second only to the United States after a record jump.

The world’s second-most populous country posted more than 90,000 cases on September 7, 2020 taking its tally past 4.2 million, more than 68,000 ahead of Brazil, which means the latter has around 4.13m of cases.

India’s death toll, however, stands at 71,642 — far behind the nearly 193,000 dead in the United States and 126,000 in Brazil.

Updated on September 8, 2020

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Beijing is the capital of China.

China has approximately 350 ships and submarines.

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Hichem Mechichi won the confidence vote.

Tunisia (تیونس) is a country of Africa.

Tunis is the capital while Tunisian Dinar is the currency of Tunisia.

Tunisia shares its border with Mediterranean Sea.

Tunisia is going through a political turmoil.

This is the third govenment in Tunisia since October 2019.

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Ryadh is the capital of Saudi Arabia.

Permission was given after request from UAE.

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Abu Dhabi is the capital of UAE.

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The Global Innovation Index is compiled by the World Intellectual Property Organisation, INSEAD business school and Cornell University which publishes its annual rankings after evaluating innovations in the country’s institutions, human capital and research, infrastructure, market and business sophistication, knowledge and technology outputs and creative outputs.

The report showed Pakistan’s ranking in terms of market sophistication fell from 102 in 2019 to 116 in 2020.

Pakistan ranked only better than Bangladesh (116) but was far behind India (48), Nepal (95), Sri Lanka (101).

Meanwhile, Switzerland, Sweden, the US and the UK lead the innovation ranking.

It was the 13th addition of this report.

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SCO stands for Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Headquarters located in Beijing, China.

SCO has 8 member countries, 4 are central Asian countries, Russia, China, India and Pakistan ??.

Both india and Pakistan became member of SCO in 2017.

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USA is on second position while India is on third position.

Beijing is the capital while Yuan is the currency of China.

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Recently both Israel and UAE signed a deal to normalize diplomatic ties.

This agreement is known as "Abraham Accord".

UAE is the first Gulf country to establish diplomatic ties with Israel.

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel while Abu Dhabi is the capital of UAE.

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Hassan Diab was the previous prime minister of Lebanon and he resigned because of recent Beirut explosion.

Beirut is the capital of Lebanon.

Beirut witnessed explosion in August 2020.