Asian shares wobbled Monday after U.S. and Chinese officials traded jibes in their widening clash over trade and technology. China’s Shanghai Composite lost 0.5% to 2,884.54 after surveys showed a deteriorating manufacturing outlook in May. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index lost 1.3% by midday to 20,343.52, and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng shed 0.4% at 26,807.91. The […]
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Image copyright Reuters Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia retail group is facing a crucial week, with creditors set to vote on his proposed restructuring plans on Wednesday. If landlords and the Pensions Regulator do not back his proposals to shut stores and cut rents, the High Street giant could go into administration. Nearly 50 UK shops
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Clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian worshippers broke out at Al Aqsa mosque compound, the holy site also known to Jews as Temple Mount. It comes as thousands of Israelis have taken part in their annual “March of Flags” in Jerusalem, marking 52 years since Israel took control of the whole city. It included Jewish
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David Price picked an excellent time to erase his Boston zero in the Bronx. The left-hander finally won at Yankee Stadium for the first time with the Red Sox, backed by early homers from J.D. Martinez and Xander Bogaerts in an 8-5 victory over New York on Sunday night . “It was a much-needed win
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URBANA, Ohio — Voters in this small town, a camera-ready county seat cut from the mold of a 1960s-era television set, believe in their congressman. Representative Jim Jordan calls this home, and his fellow Urbanans believe he is a man of integrity. They believe his family, a dynasty of wrestling icons, has served the community
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Image copyright Getty Images Beauty chain Sephora will close its US stores on Wednesday for diversity training, a month after a racial incident involving singer SZA. The R&B artist said she had been racially profiled while shopping at a Sephora store in California. The firm told Reuters it was aware of the incident but said
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A swarm of bees took over a Fox Sports microphone near the San Diego Padres dugout, sending Sunday’s game against the Miami Marlins into a 28-minute “bee” delay. The players vacated the field and fans behind home plate left the stands as an exterminator in a beekeeping suit climbed a ladder to spray the swarm,
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The Chinese student protests in the spring of 1989 are remembered mostly for how they ended — the bloody military assault around Tiananmen Square in which hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed. But the pro-democracy movement spread far beyond Beijing before it was crushed. More than 1,000 miles away in Chengdu, a sprawling metropolis in southwest
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Image copyright ITV Image caption This year’s Islanders were filmed arriving at the villa over the weekend A chef, a scientist and a firefighter walk into a villa. The return of Love Island every summer has the same comforting familiarity as a lousy Christmas cracker joke. But for its fifth series, which begins on Monday
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Image copyright BBC Panorama A wealthy businessman who lived a life of luxury paid just £35.20 income tax, a BBC investigation has discovered. Frank Timis rented a £14,000-a-month penthouse and spent thousands dining in London’s finest restaurants. But his personal tax return for 2017 shows he paid just £35.20 in tax, after claiming that he
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