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UK records deepest recession among top economies

by Associated Press
| August 13, 2020 12:03 AM

LONDON (AP) — Britain has suffered the deepest recession among the world’s top economies this year, shrinking by a fifth in the second quarter alone when much of the economy was mothballed as part of efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

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