Stock market today: World shares mixed after Wall Street retreat
World shares are mixed after Wall Street benchmarks retreated following the S&P 500's rise to its highest level since the spring of last year
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Windrush scandal rumbles on 5 years after UK government's apology
It's been five years since the U.K. government apologized and promised to compensate legal residents who were caught up in an immigration crackdown
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Poland's conservative ruling party leader Kaczynski is joining the government as the deputy premier
Poland’s powerful conservative ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski is reentering the government as the only deputy prime minister in the Cabinet
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Russia says it downed 3 drones outside Moscow, suspects it was attack by Ukraine
Russian authorities say two drones have crashed outside Moscow as they were approaching the warehouses of a local military unit
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Stock market today: Asian shares mostly lower, tracking Wall Street retreat
Shares are mostly lower in Asia after Wall Street benchmarks retreated following the S&P 500's rise to its highest level since the spring of last year
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Cooperation or competition? China's security industry sees the US, not AI, as the bigger threat
China’s security and surveillance industry is now focused on shoring up its vulnerabilities to the United States and other outside actors, worried about risks posed by hackers, advances in artificial intelligence and pressure from rival governments
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UK borrowers brace for more expensive loans as inflation fails to fall as anticipated
Official figures show that consumer price inflation across the U.K. is unchanged at 8.7% in the year to May against expectations for a modest decline, a development that is likely to see the Bank of England raise the cost of borrowing again
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Paris summit aims to shake up the financial system. It will test leaders' resolve on climate
Heads of state, finance leaders and activists are converging in Paris to seek ways to overhaul the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and usher the global development banks into a post-pandemic world with a rapidly changing climate
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Wisconsin lawmakers poised to approve liquor law overhaul
Wisconsin lawmakers are poised to approve a massive overhaul of the laws governing the state’s multibillion-dollar liquor industry, changes that are supported by small craft brewers, like the makers of Spotted Cow beer, bar owners and alcohol distributors
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Powell to face Capitol Hill hearing at a time of rising uncertainty over Fed's interest-rate plans
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will begin two days of hearings before Congress on Wednesday that will likely focus on the question that consumed the central bank last week: How far and how fast will the Fed raise its key interest rate from here
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Foreign companies are shifting investment out of China as confidence wanes, business group says
A business group says foreign companies are shifting investment and their Asian headquarters out of China as confidence plunges following the expansion of an anti-spying law and other challenges
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Singapore ride-hailing firm Grab slashes 1,000 jobs in biggest layoff since pandemic
Singapore ride-hailing firm Grab Holdings said it is cutting over 1,000 jobs or 11% of its workforce to cut costs and keep the company competitive, in its biggest round of job cuts since the pandemic
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