COMMENT | STEPHEN SACKUR | Today BBC News has announced plans to close @BBCHARDtalk after three decades holding the world’s politicians and powerbrokers to account. This is sad news for me personally, but much more important, I think it’s depressing news for the BBC and all who believe in the importance of …
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If the Democrats were to win the White House and both houses of Congress, they could implement fiscal policies with a simple majority COMMENT | NOURIEL ROUBINI | With polls suggesting that Kamala Harris has at least a 50% chance of winning next month’s US presidential election, questions about her …
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BEIJING | Xinhua | Chinese President Xi Jinping met with foreign guests attending the China International Friendship Conference and conference marking the 70th founding anniversary of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) here on Friday. Xi had a group photo taken with the foreign guests and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | One in eight women alive today experienced rape or sexual assault before the age of 18, according to new estimates released by UNICEF. The first-ever global and regional estimates on sexual violence against children published ahead of the International Day of the Girl marked on …
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LONDON | Xinhua | As the United Kingdom’s Labour government marks 100 days in office on Saturday, political commentators are markedly less enthusiastic than in the aftermath of the party’s landslide win in the July 4 general election. Instead, they are asking whether Labour will be able to get back …
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SAN FRANCISCO | Xinhua | Boeing said on Friday that it will lay off 10 percent of its workforce in the coming months and cut its production amid a month-long strike. The job cuts will impact roughly 17,000 workers across all levels of the company, Boeing said, adding that it …
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WASHINGTON, the United States | Xinhua | The United States announced Friday sanctions targeting Iran’s energy trade in light of the Oct. 1 ballistic missile attack launched by the country against Israel. According to a statement issued by the Department of State, the department “is imposing sanctions on six entities …
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CAIRO,EGYPT | Xinhua | The United States has frequently employed political maneuvers to gain credit for its role in the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East. In July 2022, prior to a visit to the region, U.S. President Joe Biden proudly asserted in a Washington Post op-ed that “The Middle …
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STOCKHOLM | Xinhua | The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics went to two scientists, John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton, for their foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday. This year’s laureates for the …
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden | TASS & Xinhua | The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to two American scientists, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA molecules that regulate gene activity, the Nobel Committee of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm announced. The scientists won the …
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