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Xenophobia causing China, Japan & India’s ‘economic woes’: US Prez Biden

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants, lumping the two with adversaries China and Russia...

Apple iPhone sales plunge, as shares rise on dividend, stock buyback news | Technology

Sales of the iPhone fall 10 percent amid growing competition from Chinese rivals such as Huawei.Apple’s revenue has dipped for a fifth consecutive quarter,...

E-waste is overflowing landfills. At one sprawling Vietnam market, workers recycle some of it

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) — Dam Chan Nguyen saves dead and dying computers.When he first started working two decades ago in Nhat...

US judge questions DOJ, Google in antitrust trial

WASHINGTON: A US judge on Thursday pushed against the central pleas of both US govt and Google lawyers as he heard closing arguments at...

Russian troops deploy to airbase housing US military in Niger: US official | Military News

US official says Russian and US troops do not mingle at Airbase 101 as Moscow’s forces have deployed to a separate hanger.Russian military personnel...

The quiet, feared strategist behind Modi’s rise

Narendra Modi will find out in June if he's won a record third term in a row as India's prime minister. After a decade...

Rare editions of Pushkin are vanishing from libraries around Europe

PARIS: In April 2022, soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, two men arrived at the library of the University of Tartu, in Estonia’s second-largest city....

Australia’s Albanese declares ‘national crisis’ after killings of women | Women News

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has branded domestic violence a “national crisis” amid an outcry over the rise in the number of killings of...

Death toll from heavy rains in southern Brazil jumps to 29, with 60 more still mising

The death toll from heavy rains in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state jumped to 29 as of Thursday night, with another 60...

Philippines summons China envoy over water cannon incident

MANILA: Manila summoned a senior Chinese envoy on Thursday to protest a water cannon incident that damaged two Philippine vessels during a patrol in...

Gaza will need largest post-war reconstruction effort since 1945, UN says | Israel War on Gaza News

UN Development Programme official estimates post-war reconstruction will cost between $40-50bn.The level of destruction in Gaza has not been since World War II, according...

The unprecedented destruction of housing in Gaza hasn’t been seen since World War II, the UN says

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The world hasn’t seen anything like the unprecedented destruction of housing in Gaza since World War II, and it would...

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