Fees paid by China to the United States and other countries to deliver packages will nearly triple through 2025 under an agreement by the global postal union following complaints by Washington, the Chinese post office said Tuesday.
Read moreFor over a decade, things had been quiet in Atlantic City, the seaside gambling resort known as much for its colorful political corruption as for its slot machines and saltwater taffy.
Read moreGerman newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reports that Deutsche Bank gave expensive gifts to senior Chinese officials at a time when it was trying to establish itself as a major player in China’s financial industry.
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Russian investigators raided opposition offices across the country on Tuesday, in the latest move against Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and his allies.
Read moreA homemade, remote-controlled bomb intended to “kill or to harm” riot control officers was detonated as they deployed against renewed violence in Hong Kong over the weekend, police said Monday, in a further escalation of destructive street battles gripping the business hub.
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Riot police engaged in a running battle with angry protesters outside Barcelona’s airport Monday after Spain’s Supreme Court convicted 12 separatist leaders of illegally promoting Catalonian independence and sentenced nine of them to prison.
Read moreThe European Union on Tuesday said a Brexit divorce deal is possible this week but that the British government’s proposals so far are not sufficient to seal an agreement.
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National security adviser John Bolton was so alarmed by Rudy Giuliani’s back-channel activities in Ukraine that he described President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer as a “hand grenade who is going to blow everybody up,” according to a former White House aide.
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Citing President Donald Trump, 2020 presidential hopeful Joe Biden unveiled a massive anticorruption plan Monday morning that includes constraints on election spending, preventing White House interference into Justice Department matters and barring foreign lobbying.
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Early primary voters in Iowa are taking a shine to Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, who leaped over Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for third place according to a new poll Monday – placing the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, behind Senator Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden.
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A former member of President Donald Trump’s national-security team is testifying before the committees marshaling the House’s impeachment inquiry on Monday, beginning a whirlwind week of subpoena deadlines and testimony from people at the center of the probe.
Read moreTwelve Democratic hopefuls are set to slug it out Tuesday night in Westerville, Ohio, making history as the largest field of candidates to share a single presidential debate stage.
Read moreThe Protect Democracy Project sued the State Department in federal court for information communications between it and Rudolph Giuliani regarding his interactions with Ukrainian officials.
Read moreThe New York Times sued the State Department, Department of Justice and FBI in federal court for records on their correspondence regarding Hunter Biden’s activities in Ukraine.
Read morePoland’s ruling conservative nationalist party won parliamentary elections on Sunday, a result that likely will lead it to seek to exert even more control over the country’s judiciary and deepen a showdown with the European Union.
Read moreFacing criticism from President Trump and his Republican allies, Hunter Biden said he will step down from the board of directors of a Chinese-backed private equity firm at the end of the month and pledged not to work on behalf of any foreign-owned companies should his father win the presidency.
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Outlining his “plan to end corporate greed and corruption,” Senator Bernie Sanders promised Monday that as president he would increase corporate tax rates, ban large-scale stock buybacks and give workers a stronger say in how their company operates.
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Brexit negotiators were meeting again Monday in an attempt to allow Britain to leave the European Union with a divorce deal at the end of the month, the queen was preparing to give a speech on the broader aims of government.
Read moreThe White House says President Donald Trump has yet to watch a graphically violent parody video that depicts a likeness of him shooting and stabbing opponents and members of the news media, but based on what he’s heard, he “strongly condemns” it.
Read morePrime Minister Viktor Orban’s dominant right-wing Fidesz party suffered large losses in Sunday’s local elections in Hungary.
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