2019

Asian shares advance as investors await US-China trade moves

Asian shares mostly higher pending developments in US-China trade talks By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer November 12, 2019, 8:05 AM 4 min read Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Tuesday after the Dow Jones Industrial Average notched another record high. Investors were awaiting developments on the China-U.S. trade front after President Donald Trump […]

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T.I.’s Daughter Has Been Liking Tweets Critical Of Her Dad’s Hymen Remarks

“I think that most kids, man, in hindsight, looking back, they always thank their parents for not allowing them to damage themselves as much as they could have,” T.I. said in an effort to explain that he does this to protect his daughter.  “This is the thing. Deyjah’s 18, just graduated high school now and

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Brexit ‘puts brakes on UK launch of e-scooters’

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption E-scooters have been launching all over the world Brexit is delaying the potential launch of public-use electric scooters in the UK, says Sweden’s Voi Technology, which claims Britain risks being left behind. Fredrik Hjelm, co-founder and chief executive of the shared e-scooter firm, said he has held talks with

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Defense Dept. Official Testified Trump Questioned Ukraine Aid in June

Catherine M. Croft, who succeeded Mr. Anderson, said that she was “trepidatious” about taking a job advising Mr. Volker because of Mr. Giuliani. She feared that given his public demands for investigations by Ukraine into former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son, “it was possible that the Trump administration would choose to

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Poland reacts angrily to Netflix Nazi death camp documentary

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Auschwitz was one of the death camps built in Poland Poland’s prime minister has written a letter to the streaming company Netflix insisting on changes to a documentary about the Nazi death camps. Mateusz Morawiecki said a map shown in the series locates the death camps within modern-day Poland’s

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China aims to build its own Yellowstone on Tibetan plateau

There’s a building boom on the Tibetan plateau, one of the world’s last remote places. Mountains long crowned by garlands of fluttering prayer flags — a traditional landscape blessing — are newly topped with sprawling steel power lines. At night, the illuminated signs of Sinopec gas stations cast a red glow over newly built highways.

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Republican Critics, Fearing Trump, Toe an Anti-Impeachment Party Line, for Now

Some House Republicans have already learned that the hard way. When Representative Francis Rooney, who represents a deep-red district in Florida, said he “could not rule out” voting for impeachment, Mr. Trump and his Republican allies created such an uproar that he announced his retirement within days. Representative Mark Amodei, Republican of Nevada, who said

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