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How Hwee Young | AFP | Getty Images Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad (left) shakes hands with China’s Premier Li Keqiang (right) at the end of their joint press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on August 20, 2018. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said he …
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Chinese airlines ordered to halt use of Boeing 737 Max planes: Caijing
Michael Tewelde | AFP | Getty Images A man carries a piece of debris on his head at the crash site of a Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines flight near Bishoftu, a town some 60 kilometers southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 10, 2019. China’s aviation regulator has ordered domestic airlines …
Read More »‘Brexit in peril’ as PM May faces heavy defeat
Peter Nicholls | Reuters Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May is seen outside Downing Street in London, Britain, February 14, 2019. Brexit could be reversed if lawmakers reject the government’s exit deal, British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Sunday after two major eurosceptic factions in parliament warned that Prime Minister …
Read More »Qatar’s trade surplus hit $52 billion last year, minister says
Stringer | AFP | Getty Images Workers offload cargo from a Qatar Airways Cargo plane at the Hamad International Airport in Doha on July 20, 2017. Qatar’s trade surplus reached $52 billion in 2018, the country’s Minister of Commerce and Industry said Sunday. More than 20 months after the economic …
Read More »No survivors in crash of Boeing 737
MICHAEL TEWELDE | AFP | Getty Images Emergency workers work amid debris at the crash site of Ethiopia Airlines near Bishoftu, a town some 60 kilometres southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 10, 2019. A new Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 bound for Nairobi crashed shortly after take-off on Sunday …
Read More »2020 Democratic primary candidates weigh Medicare-for-all, public option
Justin Sullivan | Getty Images U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a health care rally at the 2017 Convention of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee on September 22, 2017 in San Francisco, California. Sen. Bernie Sanders addressed the California Nurses Association about his Medicare for All Act …
Read More »2020 Democrats flock to trendy SXSW festival in Texas
Elijah Nouvelage | Reuters Sen. Kamala Harris launches her campaign for President of the United States at a rally at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in her hometown of Oakland, California, January 27, 2019. A big chunk of the 2020 Democratic field began making Texas an unlikely early-state stop Saturday and …
Read More »Saudi’s Falih US, China driving oil demand no April OPEC change
Faisal Al Nasser | Reuters Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih speaks to the media during Saudi government ministers brief in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia December 19, 2018. Saudi oil minister Khalid al-Falih said on Sunday that China and the U.S. would lead healthy global demand for oil this year but that …
Read More »Merkel successor backs Macron’s EU call, floats own ideas
Carsten Koall | Getty Images Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, left, is congratulated by Angela Merkel after receiving the most votes to become the next leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) at a federal congress of the CDU on December 7, 2018 in Hamburg, Germany. The leader of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s …
Read More »San Fran’s BART service completely halted by computer problem
Mardis Coers | Getty Images A BART janitor earned over $276,000 in 2015. San Francisco’s public transit service, BART, stopped running overnight, halting all train service. Bay Area Rapid Transit said Saturday that crews working overnight on BART’s uninterruptible power supply ran into problems that have impacted the power supply …
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