T he discount e-commerce site Temu, which has taken the US by storm, has launched in the UK, topping the free app charts in the Apple store.
Having been downloaded millions of times in the US, the shopping platform — which carries the tagline “shop lik…

People living in Montana will soon need to download a VPN service to keep accessing TikTok.
Republican Governor Greg Gianforte signed for the proposed ban to become law on Wednesday May 17, with the block due to be officially enforced on January 1, 202…

Vladimir Putin: 'We do not need to humiliate Russia but we do need to punish it for what it has done,' says Krišjānis Kariņš, the Latvian prime minister. Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP via Getty
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I f you shudder at the crippled supply chains, energy price shocks and geopolitical instability flowing from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it has little on the global consequences of a Chinese attempt to take Taiwan by force.…
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HIROSHIMA, Japan – China, Russia, climate change, artificial intelligence and diversity are among the issues on a crowded agenda awaiting leaders from the Group of Seven (G-7) bloc of wealthy advanced democracies this weekend.…
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Montana became the first state to ban TikTok yesterday. In a press release, the state's Republican governor, Greg Gianforte, said the move was a necessary step to keep Montanans safe from Chinese Communist Party surveillance.…
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U.S. stocks traded mixed this morning, with the Dow Jones dropping around 100 points on Thursday.
Following the market opening Thursday, the Dow traded down 0.31% to 33,315.53 while the NASDAQ rose 0.28% to 12,535.19.…
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Rishi Sunak and Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida have signed a new agreement to build closer defence, security and cyber ties amid growing Chinese aggression.
Becoming the first Prime Minister to visit Hiroshima, Mr Sunak joined his ally for dinner a…

Tokyo — President Biden was in Japan Thursday to join fellow G7 leaders in Hiroshima for a Friday summit that will see the world's biggest economic powers grapple with global issues, including China's huge military buildup in the Pacific.&#…

FILE PHOTO: A ship (right) of Vietnam Marine Guard is seen near a ship of Chinese Coast Guard in the South China Sea, about 210 km (130 miles) off shore of Vietnam May 14, 2014.…
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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – JANUARY 04: Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks during a keynote address by Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG Oliver Zipse at CES 2023 at The Pearl concert theater at Palms Casino Resort on January 04, 2023 in Las Vegas, …

Dow Jones futures fell slightly Thursday morning after the Labor Department's first-time unemployment claims. The tone in Washington improved toward a possible debt-ceiling deal, helping to buoy investor optimism. Walmart (WMT) rallied after the …

Your questions answered: Is Ukraine's counteroffensive Kyiv's last hope of winning the war?
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World leaders landed Thursday for a Group of Seven meeting in Hiroshima, the site of the world’s first atomic bomb attack, with Russia’s war in Ukraine expected to be high on the agenda.…
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N apoli star Kim Min-jae is waiting to see if Manchester United qualify for the Champions League before making a decision over his future.
The centre-back has been of interest to United since before his move to Serie A, and those links have intensified…

Alibaba's (NYSE:BABA) announcements of better-than-expected fourth-quarter results and spin-off of its cloud group were not enough to keep most Chinese tech stocks from moving lower on Thursday.
Alibaba (BABA) shares rose 1% after the company rep…

Crop farmer Bob Worth plants corn in one of the many fields on his family's 2,100 acres in Lake Benton, Minn., on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Worth is a third-generation farmer who battled depression in the early '80s and now advocates for furthe…

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An unexpected resurgence in inflation has markets eyeing interest rate hikes again, with at least one economist arguing there is a case to be made for the Bank of Canada to act as soon as its next meeting on June 7.…
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A popular fertility tracking app shared users’ sensitive health information with third-party advertisers without their consent, a new Federal Trade Commission complaint alleges.
The FTC’s investigation into Premom, a fertility tracking app developed by…

The agency has replaced two aging UPS units powering the Air Traffic Management Center. But this patches up just one of the many problems that led to the New Year’s Day fiasco.…
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Long Japan, short China.
If there is a general macro, relative value trade playing out right now, it might be that as the contrasting fortunes of Asia’s economic and financial behemoths become starker by the day.…
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