Sun Dawu, chairman of Dawu Agriculture Group, was handed 18 years in jail on a range of charges, including ‘provoking…
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Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue and his love of Bugattis and Michael Jackson
“Through relentless embezzlement and extortion, Vice President Nguema Obiang shamelessly looted his government and shook down businesses in his country…
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Stone Age axe dating back 1.3 million years unearthed in Morocco
Researchers find North Africa’s oldest Stone Age hand-axe manufacturing site, dating back 1.3 million years. Archaeologists in Morocco have announced…
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Peru swears in new President Pedro Castillo
Peru has sworn in new President Pedro Castillo, a leftist former teachers’ union leader who already faces mounting challenges to…
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Pedro Castillo: The primary school teacher who became Peru’s president
His victory, by just 44,000 votes, was confirmed after a weeks-long counting process in which authorities reviewed a number of…
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Robinhood banks on retail trader loyalty in IPO debut
For any company on the brink of going public, the final days before its trading debut can feel like a big balancing…
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AR-15 rifle maker offers $33M settlement to Sandy Hook families
The maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting is offering some of the victims’ families…
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Kandahar residents fear Taliban advance on Afghan city
Kandahar, Afghanistan – Last week, Kawsar Sama and her family packed up their belongings and got on a flight to…
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Bangladesh evacuates 10,000 Rohingya after deadly landslides
Rohingya from refugee camps as well as local residents moved to safer areas in Cox’s Bazar after 14 killed in…
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Fries with that? McDonald’s sales soar on crispy chicken sandwich
As its dining rooms reopened, the fast food giant drew customers in with new products like its crispy chicken sandwich.…
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Simone Biles: What are the twisties in gymnastics?
“You’re moving way too fast, you’re totally lost, you’re trying to think but you know you don’t usually have to…
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‘Unprecedented’ restitution: US returns antiquities to Iraq
The United States will return to Iraq some 17,000 archaeological treasures dating back 4,000 years and looted in recent decades…
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Soaring tortilla prices hit struggling Mexican households hard
Mexico City, Mexico – For 69-year-old Maria Eugenia Aguilera, her weekly shop has come with nasty sticker shocks over the…
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Equatorial Guinea VP loses appeal against embezzlement verdict
France’s highest appeal court refuses to overturn Teodoro Obiang Mangue’s 2020 corruption conviction. France’s highest appeal court has upheld a…
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Gap backs Biles over decision to put her mental health first
Gap is standing by its star athlete endorser Simone Biles after she withdrew from the gymnastics team competition at the…
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Boeing turns first quarterly profit in nearly two years
Things look like they are turning around for beleaguered aerospace giant Boeing after it reported its first quarterly profit in…
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Wipe out credit card interest until 2023
0% intro APR for qualifying balance transfers — The Wells Fargo Platinum card comes with a 0% intro APR for…
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Chinese officials and Taliban meet, in sign of warming ties
Meeting in Chinese city of Tianjin comes as US-led foreign forces continue pulling out of Afghanistan. China’s foreign minister has…
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Dujardin now GB’s most decorated female Olympian
Dujardin rode Valegro to success in 2012 and 2016 but was aboard Gio in Tokyo Charlotte Dujardin became Great Britain’s…
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Libya’s new interim government is facing an arduous task
The parliamentary and presidential elections planned for the end of the year give the long-suffering people of Libya reason to…
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