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Family in Vietnam has massive 200kg pet wild boar

A family in south Vietnam received a wild boar as a piglet from relatives two years ago, and now it has grown to a huge 440lb (200kg) pet. The family lives in Binh Chanh district, in Ho Chi Minh City

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Iran urges the U.S. to return to nuclear deal

FILE PHOTO: Iran flag. /VCG Iranian foreign minister appealed to the United States to act swiftly to return to the nuclear accord, pointing out that legislation passed by parliament forces the

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Oil prices jump 5% on OPEC+ output talks, Iran tension

General view of al-Zubair oil field near Basra, Iraq, April 21, 2020. /Reuters Oil prices climbed nearly 5 percent on Tuesday after news that Saudi Arabia will make voluntary cuts to its oil o

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WHO grants 'emergency validation' to Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine

Syringes are seen in front of displayed Biontech and Pfizer logos. /Reuters The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday granted emergency validation to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, paving

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Trump Seeks to Intervene as States Join Texas Election Suit

Donald Trump’s campaign asked to join a Texas lawsuit challenging the president’s election defeat at the U.S. Supreme Court, as 17 other states filed in support of a ca

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Wall St. gains, Nasdaq hits record high as holiday shopping begins

Wall Street stocks advanced, with the Nasdaq closing at a record high, on Friday in a holiday-shortened week as retailers kicked off the year-end shopping season amid record COVID-19 hospitalizati

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China proposes antitrust law ahead of Singles’ Day shopping spree

Debates over anti-competitive practices amongst China’s internet firms resurface every year in the lead up to Singles’ Day, a time when online retailers exhaust their resources and deploy

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Thai Cabinet Approves Parliament Session to Discuss Protests

Thailand’s cabinet backed a proposal from lawmakers to convene a special session of the parliament to discuss anti-government protests that have swept the nation’s capi

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Washington's Afghan policy needs an honest look

Editor's note: Hannan Hussain is an assistant researcher at the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) and an author. The article reflects the author's opinions and

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Washington's Afghan policy needs an honest look

Editor's note: Hannan Hussain is an assistant researcher at the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) and an author. The article reflects the author's opinions and

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Wall Street closes sharply lower as Trump tests positive for COVID-19

A trader scans financial information on computer screens on the IG Index trading floor in London on February 6, 2018. /Reuters U.S. stocks closed lower on Friday as news that U.S. President Do

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S&P 500, Dow extend longest losing spree in a year

The S&P 500 and the Dow inched lower on Friday, extending their longest losing spree in a year as fears about the outlook for the economy in a future still dominated by the coronavirus weighed on

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U.S. current account deficit widens 52.9% in Q2

The U.S. current account deficit widened sharply in the second quarter, the highest level in nearly 12 years, as the COVID-19 pandemic weighed on U.S. exports, the Commerce Department reported Fri

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Mozilla shutters Firefox Send and Notes

Mozilla today announced that it will shutter two products: Firefox Send, the free file transfer service it already put on hiatus in July, and Firefox Notes, its note-taking extension and mobile app.F

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LVMH to counter-sue Tiffany for 'dishonesty'

Tiffany & Co sued LVMH on September 9 after the French luxury goods giant told the U.S. jeweler it could not complete a 16 billion U.S. dollars deal to acquire it because of a French government r

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Nasdaq hits record high close due to tech rally

The Nasdaq surged to a record high close on Monday, while the SP 500 approached its own record level, with both indexes lifted by Nvidia and other technology stocks.The benchmark SP 500 reached ju

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China's GDP declines 1.6% in first half of 2020, up 3.2% in Q2

China's economy returned to modest growth in the second quarter of 2020 and reverted from the first contraction on record in the first quarter of this year, as COVID-19 eases and policymakers announc