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President Xi Jinping promised Monday to open China wider to imports as he opened a high-profile trade fair meant to rebrand the country as a global customer. But he offered no response to U.S. and European complaints about technology policy and curbs on foreign business. The China International […]
The day of reckoning for American politics has nearly arrived. Voters on Tuesday will decide the $5 billion debate between President Donald Trump’s take-no-prisoner politics and the Democratic Party’s super-charged campaign to end the GOP’s monopoly in Washington and statehouses across the nation. There are indications that an oft-discussed “blue […]
Egypt said Sunday it had killed 19 militants in retaliation for an attack on Coptic Christians two days earlier. The Interior Ministry said Egypt’s security forces tracked the suspects in Friday’s attack to a hideout in the desert of the Minya Province and returned fire from the militant […]
The driver of a tower-crane truck lost control and crashed into a long line of vehicles in China on Saturday, killing 15 people. A total of 31 vehicles were involved in the pileup near the Lanzhou South Toll Station on the Lanzhou-Haikou Expressway and 41 people were injured, […]
Angelina Jolie called for protection for Yemeni refugees and international efforts to bring an end to the long-running conflict in Yemen during her visit to Seoul as a special envoy for the U.N. Refugee Agency. “As an international community, we have been shamefully slow to act to end the […]
Demonstrators gathered Sunday outside the former U.S. diplomatic mission, marking the 1979 takeover of the diplomatic complex known as the “den of spies” in the nation. Nov. 4 is also known as Student Day and the National Day of the Fight against Global Arrogance. Rallies also took place […]
Billionaire Warren Buffett‘s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway bought back $928 million of its stock as its third-quarter earnings jumped from $4.1 billion to $18.54 billion in one year, the company announced Saturday. In addition, the company’s operating profit increased to $6.88 billion from $3.44 billion in the third quarter, […]
At least 12 people, including nine members of two families, have been killed in landslides and flooding on an island of Sicily, officials said Sunday. The family members ranged from age 1, 3, and 15 to their grandparents died in Casteldaccia in the Province of Palermo, according to […]
Voters in the Pacific territory of New Caledonia on Sunday rejected a bid for independence from France. With a turnout of 81 percent, 56.4 percent chose to remain part of France, according to final results. About 175,000 people were eligible to vote in the terrirory east of Australia. Indigenous […]
On Nov. 4, 2008, Barack Obama, a Democratic U.S. senator from Illinois, was the first African American elected president of the United States, taking 338 electoral votes to 161 for Republican John McCain On this date in history: In 1879, James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio, patented […]
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