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16 Jun 2023
President Xi Jinping told his "old friend" Bill Gates on Friday that China had always placed its hopes in the American people, after the Microsoft co-founder's foundation pledged $50 million to help Chinese efforts to battle disease.
15 Jun 2023
Trillions of dollars which could be used to tackle climate change are being wasted on harmful and unnecessary subsidies, the World Bank said in a report Thursday.
15 Jun 2023
A 21-year-old American woman has died after being assaulted and pushed down a slope by a US tourist near the Neuschwanstein castle in Bavaria, police said on Thursday.
15 Jun 2023
Nine women accused Bill Cosby of sexually assaulting them decades ago in a lawsuit filed in Nevada Wednesday, after the US state dropped its statute of limitations on civil sexual abuse cases.
14 Jun 2023
Donald Trump is reaching into his familiar playbook as he fights the first federal criminal charges ever lodged against a former US president.
13 Jun 2023
The United States has updated its travel warning for Uganda following the adoption of draconian anti-gay legislation last month, the State Department said.
13 Jun 2023
South Korea has charged a former Samsung executive accused of stealing company secrets worth hundreds of millions of dollars to set up a copycat chip factory in China, prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday.
9 Jun 2023
Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he was indicted in a probe over his handling of classified documents, in a case that would make him the first US president to face federal criminal charges.
9 Jun 2023
The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance said late Thursday it was halting US dollar deposits and encouraged clients to withdraw their dollars by early next week, following
charges leveled by the government.
9 Jun 2023
China warned the United States Friday against "interfering in Cuba's internal afairs", in response to reports that Beijing was planning to set up a spy base on the island just of American shores.
8 Jun 2023
US prosecutors have told Donald Trump's lawyers that he is the target of a probe into his handling of classified documents after leaving the presidency, in a sign he might be indicted, US media reported Wednesday night.
7 Jun 2023
Lionel Messi on Wednesday announced he will sign for Major League Soccer side Inter Miami, choosing the United States as his next destination over a Barcelona reunion or blockbuster deal to play in Saudi Arabia.
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Everton secured their first win in a Merseyside derby at Goodison Park since 2010 to leave Liverpool's Premier League title aspirations in ruins after a 2-0 defeat on Wednesday.
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KPMG has announced the cancellation of job offers to some foreign graduates in the United Kingdom (UK). KPMG took this step following the decision of the UK government to tighten visa rules for overseas workers in a bid to cut record immigration. The Financial Times reports that one of the UK’s biggest graduate employers, the…
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