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Oil prices rise as China agrees to more US energy purchases
Oil prices rose today, propelled higher by the long-anticipated signing of an initial trade deal between Washington and Beijing that sets the stage for a potentially huge increase in energy supplies from the US to China. Brent LCOc1 was 33
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US and China tiptoe around holes in the new trade agreement
The United States and China signed an initial trade deal yesterday that will roll back some tariffs and boost Chinese purchases of US products, defusing an 18-month row between the world’s two largest economies but leaving a number of sore
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Sanders, Warren voice out about chances of a woman defeating Trump
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders disagreed in a Democratic presidential debate yesterday over whether he once told her a woman could not win the White House in 2020, underlining an emerging rift between the progressive allies as the first voting
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Two French lawmakers request reopening probe into Nora Anne’s death
SEREMBAN: Two French lawmakers have requested reopening the investigation into the death of Franco-Irish teenager Nora Anne Quoirin following her disappearance from an eco-resort near here in August last year. The French deputies (MPs), Anne Genetet and Alexandre Holroyd, asked
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Vanessa Hudgens and Austin Butler break up after 9 Years Together
NEW YORK: Vanessa Hudgens and Austin Butler have called it quits. After almost nine years together, the High School Musical alum and the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actor have decided to go their separate ways, multiple outlets report.
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Ottawa dismisses as ‘nonsense’ Iran’s claim few crash victims were Canadian
Canada yesterday dismissed as “nonsense” Tehran’s insistence that only a few Canadians died last week when Iran shot down an airliner and demanded full accountability for what it called a horrible crime. The remarks by Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne were
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Trump ex-adviser Flynn seeks to withdraw guilty plea
Lawyers for Michael Flynn, US President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, yesterday said in a court filing that he would seek to withdraw his guilty plea in former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian interference in the
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Jeanine Anez seeks to unite opposition to Morales as election battle reignites
Bolivia’s interim President Jeanine Anez is pushing to unite a divided opposition to secure an election win in May and prevent the return to power of the socialist party of ousted leader Evo Morales. Anez, a 52-year-old conservative who took
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Wife of fugitive Ghosn slams Japanese justice
Carlos and Carole Ghosn, the former first couple of carmaker Nissan, are united again in Beirut. They hold hands in the street and whisper together in a mix of Arabic and French. They kiss. But the pair’s most visceral display
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Saudi Arabia gives compensation to Makkah crane collapse victims’ kin
PUTRAJAYA: Saudi Arabia yesterday presented compensation to the families of seven Malaysian pilgrims who were killed when a crane collapsed onto the Grand Mosque in Makkah during the 2015 haj season. The compensation of SAR 1 million (equivalent to RM1.17
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