The United States and four other nations emphasized their support for host nation Thailand after they walked out of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group meeting in Bangkok. They said their …
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By DAVID RISING
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5/23/22
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Beijing has extended orders for workers and students to stay home and ordered additional mass testing as cases of COVID-19 again rise in the city. Numerous residential compounds have restricted …
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5/23/22
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A senior Spanish government official has rebuked Spain’s former king, saying Juan Carlos I should have used his first trip home from exile to clear the air over investigations into his financial …
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5/23/22
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Gerhard Schroeder left the German chancellery after a narrow election defeat in 2005 with an ambitious overhaul of the country’s welfare state beginning to kick in and every chance of a future as a …
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By GEIR MOULSON
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5/23/22
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President Joe Biden faced a dilemma on trade in Asia: He couldn’t just rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership that his predecessor had pulled the U.S. out of in 2017. Many related trade deals, …
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By JOSH BOAK and AAMER MADHANI
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5/23/22
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Australia’s new prime minister has been sworn into office ahead of a Tokyo summit with President Joe Biden. The move Monday took place as votes are still being counted to determine whether Prime …
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By ROD McGUIRK
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5/22/22
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says his country is interested in a major gas exploitation project in Senegal. He made the comment Sunday as he began a three-nation visit to Africa that also is focused …
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By BABACAR DIONE and FRANK JORDANS
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5/22/22
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The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline spiked 33 cents over the past two weeks to $4.71 per gallon. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey says the price jump comes amid …
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5/22/22
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The mission was to rescue tens of thousands of invaluable tree sprouts from a research center in New Mexico and to keep safe a vital bank of millions of pine, spruce and other conifer seeds that will …
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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
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5/22/22
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Long before an 18-year-old avowed white supremacist inflicted terror at a Buffalo supermarket, the city's Black neighborhoods had been dealing with wounds that are generations old. Residents, …
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By AARON MORRISON
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5/22/22
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The much-ballyhooed World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alpine town of Davos gets underway this week after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There's no shortage of issues to keep elite …
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By JAMEY KEATEN and MASHA MACPHERSON
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5/22/22
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Climate change will be one focus of the World Economic Forum's first in-person gathering of business and government leaders in two years. Emerging as central themes are investment considerations …
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By PETER PRENGAMAN
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5/22/22
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Republican Katie Arrington’s suspended security clearance is becoming an issue in her primary campaign against incumbent South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace. Arrington says Mace is mischaracterizing a …
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By MEG KINNARD
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5/22/22
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President Joe Biden is expected to unveil a list of countries who will joining a long anticipated Indo-Pacific trade pact, but Taiwan won’t be among them. White House national security adviser Jake …
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By AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK
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5/22/22
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The White House is planning for what it calls “dire” contingencies that could include rationing supplies of vaccines and treatments this fall if Congress doesn’t approve more money for fighting …
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By ZEKE MILLER
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5/21/22
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The U.S. women's national team's efforts to secure equitable pay finally came to fruition this week when the players reached a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Soccer that gives them the …
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By ANNE M. PETERSON
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5/21/22
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A Defense Department-funded “resiliency review” finds Parris Island facing growing threats from climate change. The South Carolina military base has molded recruits into Marines for more than a …
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By MICHELLE LIU
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5/21/22
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Delegates from the United States and four other nations have staged a walkout when a representative from Russia began his opening remarks at a meeting of trade ministers of the Asia-Pacific Economic …
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By GRANT PECK
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5/21/22
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Fans in San Francisco threw at least one baseball and a beer bottle onto the field Friday night in the direction of San Diego Padres outfielder Jurickson Profar, who called the crowd at Giants games …
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5/21/22
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Vote counting has started in Australia's election that will decide whether Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s conservative government can defy odds and rule for a fourth three-year term. Opposition …
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By ROD McGUIRK
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5/21/22
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