WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s party beat her rivals in the latest opinion poll, setting the charismatic 40-year-old leader on the way to a comfortable victory in the September election. FILE PHOTO: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during a press conference leading up to the …
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SHANGHAI / BEIJING (Reuters) – The global ambitions of Huawei Technologies founder Ren Zhengfei are marked in brick and mortar at a new company campus in southern China, where the buildings are replicas of European cities. FILE PHOTO: Employees are seen after a day of work at the new Huawei …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – US stock futures fell and Asian stocks were under pressure early Monday due to the closure of the consulate in China and the United States, raising concerns about worsening diplomatic ties between the two largest economies. great in the world. FILE PHOTO: A man with a protective …
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FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker wearing a protective suit takes a sample of a man’s nasal swab during tests for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Bondi Beach Traffic Test Center, as the state of New South Wales faces an outbreak of new cases, in Sydney, Australia, July 20, 2020. REUTERS …
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Australia has rejected Beijing’s territorial and maritime claims in the South China Sea in a formal statement to the United Nations, aligning itself more closely with the United States in the growing row. In a statement released Thursday, Australia said there was “no legal basis” for several disputed Chinese claims …
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