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Donald Trump selects Ohio senator JD Vance as his running mate; China posts weaker than expected growth; and Temesek plans to invest more in India, favouring India and turning cautious on China. Synop...

16 Jul 20242min

Donald Trump will be formally nominated as the Republican presidential candidate later this week after surviving an assassination attempt; the IMF said it reached a new seven billion U S dollar loan d...

15 Jul 20242min

U.S. President Joe Biden mixed up the name of his vice president, Kamala Harris, and his Republican rival Donald Trump. Germany will bar the use of critical components made by Chinese companies Huawei...

12 Jul 20242min

US President Joe Biden faced fresh doubts yesterday about his re-election chances from heavyweights Nancy Pelosi and George Clooney; Thailand’s Election Commission yesterday officially certified the 2...

11 Jul 20242min

Fed Chair Jerome Powell told Congress that the U.S. is no longer an overheated economy. The leaders of New Zealand, Japan and South Korea for the third year in a row attend the NATO summit, in Washing...

10 Jul 20242min

Russian missiles blasted cities across Ukraine yesterday, damaging the country’s largest children’s hospital and other buildings; a landslide triggered by torrential rains crashed onto an unauthorized...

9 Jul 20242min

French voters turned out in force for the second round of a parliamentary election with a leftist alliance unexpectedly taking the top spot. A workers' union at Samsung Electronics in South Korea is s...

8 Jul 20242min

Britons went to the polls overnight in a parliamentary election that is expected to bring Keir Starmer's Labour Party to power.The Kremlin has announced that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will v...

5 Jul 20242min