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July 15, 2023 19:31
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September 13,2020UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has accused the European Union of threatening to tear the UK apart by imposing a food "blockade" between Britain and Northern Ireland, throwing new fuel on the fire... -
September 13,2020The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a wide-ranging resolution on tackling the coronavirus pandemic on Friday over objections from the United States and Israel, which protested a...
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September 08,2020Container shipping activity has staged a sharp rebound in recent months and is nearing pre-pandemic levels, but the outlook remains clouded in uncertainty, a top industry executive said.
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September 06,2020Britain will not blink first in Brexit trade negotiations with the European Union and is not scared of a no-deal exit at the end of the year, the country’s top Brexit negotiator warned the bloc on...
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August 16,2020Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko was under growing pressure on Sunday with rival protests due to converge on the capital a week after a contested presidential election that has thrown his...
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July 31,2020The French economy experienced its sharpest contraction on record in the second quarter when strict coronavirus lockdowns choked off manufacturing, tourism and consumer spending across Europe.
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July 27,2020Bitcoin jumped above $10,000 for the first time since early June after relatively muted recent price action.
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July 20,2020When UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson held a videoconference with the leaders of European Union last month, officials on both sides came away optimistic that a deal on their post-Brexit relationship...
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July 10,2020Mukesh Ambani has had a rollercoaster 2020, cutting a string of deals for his digital business, undergoing wild swings in his wealth and having his brother’s finances laid bare for the world to see...
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July 04,2020The Louvre in Paris, the world's most visited museum and home to the Mona Lisa, reopens on Monday but with coronavirus restrictions in place and parts of the complex closed to visitors.
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July 01,2020Asia’s economy is expected to shrink this year “for the first time in living memory”, the International Monetary Fund said, warning that the region could take several years to recover.
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June 30,2020The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating around the world as many countries that reopened their economies see a resurgence in Covid-19 cases, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of World...
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June 22,2020World leaders must not politicize the coronavirus pandemic but unite to fight it, the head of the World Health Organization warned Monday, reminding all that the pandemic is still accelerating and...
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June 20,2020The US Justice Department moved abruptly Friday night to oust Geoffrey S. Berman, the attorney in Manhattan overseeing key prosecutions of US President Donald Trump’s allies and an investigation of...
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June 15,2020China cases jumped the most in almost two months and Beijing shut a major food market and nearby housing districts amid fears of a resurgence of coronavirus.
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June 10,2020Sweden on Wednesday dropped its investigation into the unsolved murder of former Swedish premier, Olof Palme, who was shot dead 34 years ago in downtown Stockholm.
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June 08,2020Japan’s economy braced for its worst postwar slump even as first-quarter GDP contracted less than initially thought, as the coronavirus crisis slams the brakes on global growth and raises pressure...
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May 31,2020In addition to disputing misleading claims made by US President Donald Trump about mail-in ballots this week, Twitter has added fact-checking labels to thousands of other tweets since introducing...
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May 30,2020Britain and the EU will attempt to revive their imperiled trade talks on Tuesday, entering a crucial week of negotiations that could mark the final hope for a deal.
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May 08,2020UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday the coronavirus pandemic keeps unleashing “a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering” and appealed for “an all-out effort...
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May 02,2020Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday announced an immediate ban on military-grade assault weapons in response to the country's deadliest-ever mass shooting, a rampage that left 22...
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May 01,2020The EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the United States can no longer be considered a participating member of the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran.
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April 28,2020Chinese President Xi Jinping censured the United States' insistence on proceeding with its maximum economic pressure on Iran during the coronavirus pandemic.
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April 27,2020The shuttering of the US economy due to the coronavirus pandemic is a shock of historic proportions, which will likely push the national unemployment rate to 16% or higher this month and require...
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April 26,2020Catching COVID-19 once may not protect you from getting it again, according to the World Health Organization, a finding that could jeopardize efforts to allow people to return to work after...
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