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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Photo: BSS/AFP
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Bill Gates and EU pledge $1 billion boost for green technology

"Decarbonising the global economy is the greatest opportunity for innovation the world has ever seen," Gates said in a statement

A welcome plaque is pictured outside the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington, US May 5, 2021. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson
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Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates explore changes to charitable foundation

Bill Gates acknowledges an affair with an employee, Microsoft looking into it
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Bill Gates acknowledges an affair with an employee, Microsoft looking into it

Bill Gates is seen with Jeffrey Epstein in a 2011 photo. Photo via NY Post
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Melinda Gates was reportedly haunted by Bill's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

Bill and Melinda Gates are presented with the 2016 Presidential Medal Of Freedom by President Obama at White House on November 22, 2016 in Washington, DC.Photographer: Leigh Vogel/WireImage
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Bill and Melinda Gates start dividing a $145 billion fortune

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Photo: BSS/AFP
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Bill Gates used to spend long weekends at the beach with his venture capitalist ex-girlfriend

FILE PHOTO: Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates attend a news conference at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 30, 2009. More than 40 heads of state and government -- almost double the number last year -- will be joined at the WEF meeting by 36 finance ministers and central bankers, including the central bank chiefs of all the G8 group of rich countries except the United States. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/File Photo
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Bill and Melinda Gates agreed 'separation contract' before divorce announcement

FILE PHOTO: Philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates (L) and his wife Melinda talk, after being awarded Commanders of the Legion of Honor at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, April 21, 2017. REUTERS/Kamil Zihnioglu/Pool/File Photo
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How will Bill and Melinda Gates’ divorce impact their charity?

Bill and Melinda Gates formed the William H. Gates Foundation in 1994. Photo: Reuters
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The end of more than a marriage?

Microsoft technology advisor Bill Gates and his wife Melinda leave on the second day of the Allen and Co. media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho July 10, 2014. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo
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Why Bill and Melinda part ways

American business magnate Bill Gates and wife Melinda Gates attend a news conference by United Nations's movement "Every Woman, Every Child" in Manhattan, New York September 24, 2015. Launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit in September 2010, Every Woman Every Child is a global movement that mobilizes and intensifies international and national action by governments, multilaterals, the private sector and civil society to address the major health challenges facing women and children around the world, the United Nations stated on its website. REUTERS/Pearl Gabel/File Photo
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Gates’ marital split follows Melinda’s long journey away from Bill’s shadow

FILE PHOTO: Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates watch the swimming events at the National Aquatics Center during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
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Factbox: Wealth and philanthropy of Bill and Melinda Gates

FILE PHOTO: Philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates and his wife Melinda listen to the speech by French President Francois Hollande, prior to being awarded Commanders of the Legion of Honor at the Elysee Palace in Paris
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Bill and Melinda Gates file for divorce, shaking philanthropic world