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Motion to allow subpoenas for witnesses, documents in Trump impeachment trial fails to pass Senate

The Capitol is seen in Washington D.C., the United States, on Jan. 21, 2020. (Xinhua/Liu Jie) Republican-controlled U.S. Senate voted 49-51 to block a motion aiming to allow subpoenas for witnesses a

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Trump and Putin made this the best week ever for Netanyahu

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Mexican leader plays 'matador' to manage Trump migration charge

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BT warns UK's Huawei cap to cost it 500 mln pounds

A BT logo on the front of their global headquarters building in London, Tuesday, January 24, 2017. /AP Photo UK's biggest broadband and mobile provider BT said Thursday it would take a 500 mil

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Experts call for urgent amendments to China's Wildlife Protection Law

01:47 Amid the investigation into the source of the novel coronavirus outbreak, a group of academicians, including professor Li Jinghong from Tsinghua University and biologist Lu Zhi f

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Militant attack leaves 15 dead in DR Congo

The DR Congo army is carrying out an operation in the country's northeastern region to root out militant groups including the ADF./Getty Images Fifteen people were killed late on Tuesday in th

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Huawei's Thompson on China, security and trade war

02:34 JeremyThompson, vice president of Huawei UK Huawei has come under intense scrutiny as countries around the world consider its role in their key 5G networks.Widely seen as the mos

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Tough choices needed to bring coronavirus outbreak under control

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Will the coronavirus cause a major growth slowdown in China?

A pharmacy in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, January 26, 2020. /Xinhua Photo Editor's note: Shang-Jin Wei is a former chief economist at the Asian Development Bank, Professor of Finance and Eco

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Daily Crunch: Tech notables react to Kobe Bryant’s death

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Palestinians threaten to quit Oslo Accords over Trump peace plan

Palestinian leaders threatened Sunday to withdraw from key provisions of the Oslo Accords, if U.S. President Donald Trump announces his Middle East peace plan. Trump was scheduled to unveil the plan

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Original Content podcast: Apple’s ‘Little America’ chooses uplift over anger

“Little America,” a new anthology series on Apple TV+, has been widely described as the best show on the fledging streaming service.Here on the Original Content podcast, we aren’t r

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Politics weigh heavily in Trump’s Mideast peace plan

A blueprint the White House is rolling out to resolve the decades-long conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is as much about politics as it is about peace.Pre

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Tinder launches panic button and catfishing crackdown

Users will be able to record information about where and when their dates are so they can alert the authorities in a panic.

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Klaus Schwab: I don't like 'the new cold war' theory

01:09 "I don't like the statement [that China and the U.S. will go into a new cold war]," said Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF).More than

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Putin's political shake-up backed by Russian parliament in initial vote

Russia’s lower house of parliament unanimously gave its initial backing on Thursday to sweeping constitutional changes proposed by President Vladimir Putin which are wi

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ECB launches its first strategy review since 2003

ECB president Christine Lagarde arrives for the news conference (Credit: Daniel Roland/AFP) The European Central Bank (ECB) has launched a major policy review.The ECB's first strategy review s