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US prefers a 'big deal' with China: Trump

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- President Donald Trump said Monday he would prefer to strike a comprehensive trade bargain with China, in comments days before top US and Chinese officials are due to resume trade...

Oct 8, 2019
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Trio win medicine Nobel for work on how cells adapt to oxygen

STOCKHOLM (AFP) -- Three researchers from the US and Britain on Monday shared the Nobel Medicine Prize for research into how human cells sense and adapt to changing oxygen levels, opening up new stra...

Oct 7, 2019
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To ban or not to ban? Masked protesters in other countries

Hong Kong's government, faced with months of pro-democracy protests that have spiraled into violence, on Friday invoke emergency powers to ban masks from street demonstrations. A look at how some ot...

Oct 4, 2019
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Hong Kong leader bans masks in hardening stance on protests

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam banned protesters from wearing masks Friday in a hardening of the government's stance on the territory's most disruptive crisis since it reverted to Chinese rule in 1997. ...

Oct 4, 2019
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Facebook launches 'Threads' app woven into Instagram

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -- Facebook on Thursday launched Threads, an image-centric messaging app designed to weave tight circles of Instagram friends together, while ramping up its challenge to rival Sna...

Oct 4, 2019
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EU 'unconvinced' by UK Brexit proposals

BRUSSELS (AFP) -- The EU is "unconvinced" by Britain's new Brexit proposals but has not immediately dismissed them, with officials and diplomats saying Thursday there were positive points alongside t...

Oct 4, 2019
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Pompeo, pillar of Trump team, drawn deep into Ukraine scandal

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Less than a month ago, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo triumphed over rivals to emerge as the dominant force in Donald Trump's foreign policy. Pompeo's ascendancy was confirmed...

Oct 4, 2019
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Trump denounces impeachment inquiry as a 'coup'

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Donald Trump on Tuesday denounced the impeachment inquiry threatening his presidency as a "coup," as his administration pushed back hard against the investigation. Trump's commen...

Oct 2, 2019
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Hong Kong: nearly four months of rallies, clashes

HONG KONG, Oct 1, 2019 (AFP) - Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests erupted into violence in June, plunging the former British colony into its most severe crisis since it reverted to Chinese rule in 19...

Oct 2, 2019
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China celebrates 70 years as Hong Kong unrest looms large

BEIJING (AFP) -- China celebrates 70 years of Communist Party supremacy Tuesday with a parade of tanks, missiles and troops, a muscular display of its rising superpower status even as it faces an unp...

Oct 1, 2019
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Australian PM confirms Trump asked for help investigating Mueller probe

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed that US President Donald Trump asked him to help gather information for an inquiry into Robert Mueller's investigation of Ru...

Oct 1, 2019
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Xi bows to Mao ahead of China's 70th anniversary

BEIJING (AFP) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping paid his respects to Chairman Mao Zedong's embalmed body Monday in a rare gesture ahead of China's celebration of 70 years of Communist rule. Xi and oth...

Sept 30, 2019
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Forever 21 fashion chain files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Low-price fashion chain Forever 21, a one-time hot destination for teen shoppers that fell victim to its own rapid expansion and changing consumer tastes, has filed for Chapter 11 ba...

Sept 30, 2019
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Taiwan shrugs as communist China hails 70th anniversary

TAIPEI (AFP) -- Communist China's creation seven decades ago irrevocably changed Taiwan, but Beijing's huge celebrations this week will be met with a collective shrug on an island where people increa...

Sept 30, 2019
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Trump allies in disarray as Democrats push impeachment

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said Sunday that he expects the whistleblower at the heart of impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump to testify “v...

Sept 30, 2019
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