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Xi Jinping holds phone talks with Ukrainian president

In the last decade since the establishment of strategic partnership between China and Ukraine, bilateral ties have maintained a healthy and stable momentum of development, Chinese President Xi Jinpin

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MAGIC Fund raises $30M to scale its global founders-backing-founders fund

Influential entrepreneurs like Paul Graham and Naval Ravikant always preach the need for startups to have founders-turned-investors on their cap table. As Ravikant puts it, “founders want to know that

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How PNG blocked by Australia from getting China's COVID-19 vaccines

By planting Australian consultants in Papua New Guinea to manipulate local epidemic prevention policies targeting China, obstructing the authorizing of Chinese vaccines' emergency use, threatening se

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Putin Says NATO Keeps Building Up Military Near Russia's Borders and Continues to Reject Dialogue

Russia is concerned about the build-up of NATO's military infrastructure near its borders, as well as the fact that the alliance is reluctant to constructively consider

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Xi Jinping: China welcomes closer 'Belt and Road' partnerships

China is willing to work with all parties to build a closer "Belt and Road" partnership, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday in a written address to the Asia and Pacific High-level Confere

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Fed will not raise rates on inflation fears alone, Powell says

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during a House Oversight and Reform Select Subcommittee hearing on coronavirus crisis, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 22, 2021. /

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The early-stage venture capital market is weird and chaotic

When SoftBank announced its first Vision Fund back in 2017, TechCrunch gawked at the size of the fundraising vehicle and its $100 million minimum check size. Noting a few of its early deals, we wrote

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Diplomats to meet in Vienna for more Iran nuclear talks

Further talks between Iran and global powers were planned Sunday to try to negotiate and restore a landmark 2015 agreement to contain Iranian nuclear development that w

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi talked by phone with ROK counterpart

China's State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi had a telephone conversation with his ROK counterpart Chung Eui-yong on Wednesday, calling on both sides to make good use of the joint preventi

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Flying taxi start-up Vertical Aerospace in $2bn SPAC merger

Stephen Fitzpatrick's Vertical Aerospace is close to agreeing a merger with a SPAC set up by Hugh Osmond, Sky News learns.

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Wang Yi: China-Vietnam ties maintain sound momentum

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday lauded the sound and steady development of China-Vietnam ties.Wang made the remarks when meeting with Vietnam's Foreign Minister Bui Th

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China ready to cooperate with ASEAN on Myanmar issues: Wang Yi

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi attends the Special ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of Dialogue Relations in Chongqing Municipal

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G7 Finance Ministers Meet in London to Broker Global Tax Deal

Finance ministers from the G7 group of rich nations will meet in London on Friday for two days of talks aimed at moving closer to a global deal to raise more tax from t

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China raises reserve requirement ratio for foreign currency deposits

China's central bank announced Monday that it will raise the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for foreign currency deposits by 2 percentage points from the current 5 per

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Libya, Italy, Malta, EU discuss cooperation on illegal immigration

An overcrowded boat overturns with migrants it carried desperately struggling in waters off the Libyan coast, May 25, 2016. /CFP Libyan Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush on Friday met with he

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Somali leaders sign landmark deal to hold delayed elections

Somalia's political leaders on Thursday reached a landmark deal that will pave wave for the delayed presidential and parliamentary elections.The deal was penned in Mogadishu by Prime Minister Mohamed

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U.S. Attorney General Garland weighs release of Trump-era obstruction memo

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland faces a Monday deadline to decide whether to appeal a court order criticizing his predecessor William Barr, an early test of his w