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(Bloomberg) — Nuclear energy is gaining significant momentum in Ontario, with new plans to expand an existing plant to become the world’s largest and a pledge to add three small modular reactors to a site where another is already being …

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Tether (USDT), a stablecoin that is pegged to the US Dollar, has now released its attestation report for the seco…

LOS ANGELES, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Zefr’s third-party brand suitability verification solution for Instagram Feed is now available. This AI-powered measurement solution provides marketers with even more transparency into their Meta campaig…

A zoo in China has denied suggestions some of its bears might be humans in costumes after photos of the animals standing like humans circulated online.
Hangzhou Zoo said on social media that the sun bears from Malaysia are smaller than other bears and …

Zoo-goers can bear-ly believe it’s real.
A zoo in China has refused to grin and bear it after video of one of its bears standing on its hind legs went viral — forcing officials to deny it was a human in a costume.…
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China on Monday imposed restrictions on exports of some civilian drones and related equipment. The country cited Russia’s war in Ukraine as cause for concern about converting drones to military use, the Associated Press reported.…
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A new action-comedy is topping the charts on Netflix: Hidden Strike, starring John Cena and Jackie Chan, is currently the number one movie on the streamer.
Chan stars as a Chinese military man turned private security contractor who's sent to the …

The last few weeks have been very interesting from the perspective of diplomatic outreaches. Many high-level meetings have taken place between different power centres that are looking to mend their relations with each other.…
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The resiliency of the U.S. economy is reviving the once-sluggish IPO market, but not all listings have had a great start. Last week saw the direct listing of Surf Air Mobility (SRFM), which is currently down roughly 46% since it began trading at around…

In brief: The US government hasn't finished its mission to slow China's tech advancements. According to new reports, President Joe Biden is planning to sign an executive order that will restrict critical investments in the Asian nation by m…

KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — Hundreds of mourners attended funerals in Pakistan on Monday after a suicide bombing killed at least 54 people at an election rally for a pro-Taliban cleric, carrying caskets draped in colorful cloths to burial sites in the hills….

Italy just slammed China's trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative, saying it was an 'atrocious' decision to join and that it's barely benefited from the deal. Antonio Masiello/Getty Images
Italy is having second thoughts about…

China curbs drone exports in midst of Ukraine-Russia war
An interesting line coming out of China this afternoon…
Beijing has placed a number of restrictions on the export of civilian drones abroad, citing the Ukrainian-Russian war as a factor in …

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends an emergency meeting on Crimean Bridge attack via a video conference at the Kremlin on July 17 in Moscow. Photo courtesy of Kremlin Pool/UPI | License Photo
July 31 (UPI) — President Vladimir Puti…

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The union representing B.C. port workers has reached a tentative agreement with employers, averting another strike while capping a month of wild swings in industrial relations.
Both sides recommended late Sunday that their members accept …

After HCA Healthcare announced this month that the personal identification data of roughly 11 million HCA patients in 20 states had been exposed in a breach, people may be justifiably concerned that their own medical data and identities could be stolen…

BEIJING, July 31 (Reuters) – China, Niger's second-largest foreign investor after former colonial power France, has in the past two decades ploughed billions of dollars into the landlocked West African nation, mainly for the exploration of …

The spectacle of Russian flags waved by coup-supporters at Sunday's rally in Niamey, Niger, shows just how much Russia's effort to pitch itself as an anti-colonial flag bearer resonates.
The reality though is that it is utterly disingenuous…

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July 31 (Reuters) – China's Ant Group and Standard Chartered (STAN.L) said on Monday they will work together in green finance and global fund management, broadening their existing partnership.…
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Open this photo in gallery: A woman (R) wearing a face mask uses her mobile phone at a subway station in Beijing on April 11, 2020.WANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images
Journalism student Zhang Wei was standing on a subway platform in Guangzhou, a metropolis in s…

This story is part of an ongoing CBC Nova Scotia series examining how the province is managing its record-setting population boom after decades of limited growth.
Kim Fry and her family had been thinking about moving away from Toronto for years.……