SINGAPORE – Australia and China need to find common ground despite their differences, as economic ties between the two are important, said former Australian Prime Minister John Howard. “The economic relationship between Australia and China is very important, and there is tension in that relationship and we have to take …
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A group of celebrities, including Kim Kardashian West, Katie Perry, Michael B. Jordan and Ashton Kutcher, have said they will participate in a 24-hour Instagram “freeze” on Wednesday as part of a nonprofit movement to protest what the organization says. “Frequent failures by Facebook to address hate speech and election …
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Medical personnel move the body in a refrigerated truck from Wycoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York on April 2, 2020. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images Covid-1 has killed at least 121 people under the age of 21 in the U.S., about two-thirds of whom were black …
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell during a speech in Washington DC on March 3, 2020. Mark Makela / Getty Images In the first CNBC Fed survey since the Federal Reserve announced its new, more hostile monetary policy, respondents now predict no rate hike from the central bank until 2023. …
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Oil field workers with visco work on a pump jack in North Dakota, USA, on November 6, 2013. Ken Sideno | Corbis News | Getty Images LONDON – The International Energy Agency (IEA) on Tuesday downgraded its forecast for 2020 oil demand growth to a “treacherous” path amid market weakness …
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