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The NBA has fined star James Harden $100,000 for indicating that he wouldn't play for the Philadelphia 76ers unless his trade demands were met.
"The league's investigation, which included an interview of Harden, confirmed that these c…

Republicans vying for the 2024 party nomination are set to take the stage in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Wednesday night for the first debate of the primary season.
The candidates will certainly throw punches at each other and at Donald Trump, who has a s…

The leaders from the five-member group of nations known as BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — are beginning a three-day summit in Johannesburg on Tuesday, where they are discussing expanding the club that harbors ambitions of becom…

Open this photo in gallery: A customer shops for fruits and vegetables at a market in Beijing, on Aug. 9.PEDRO PARDO/AFP/Getty Images
The head of an influential European business lobby in China said Beijing needs to send a clear message on how it plans…

It is the movie the “woke Nazis at CNN, the Washington Post and the Guardian” supposedly don’t want you to see, as well as the plucky little indie that has beaten giant franchises such as Mission: Impossible and Indiana Jones at the US box office.&#823…

Life Insurance Corporation of India on Tuesday said that it has acquired 6.660 per cent shareholding in Jio Financial Services Ltd, the demerged non-banking financial services arm of the Reliance Industries.…
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Open this photo in gallery: Canadian anthropologist and educator Isabel Crook receives an award from China's President Xi Jinping during a ceremony at Beijing's Great Hall of the People in 2019.GREG…
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Open this photo in gallery: Rohingya refugees gather to buy essentials at a market area in Kutupalong camp a day after cyclone Mocha made landfall, in Ukhia, on May 15.MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images
Saad Hammadi is a global governance fellow at the Un…

The starting gun has been fired on one of the most eagerly anticipated stock market flotations of this – or, indeed, any – year.
Arm Holdings, the UK-based chip designer, has filed for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) next month on the Nasdaq.&#8…

Microsoft (MSFT) is making some adjustments to its $69 billion acquisition of “Call of Duty” videogame maker Activision Blizzard (ATVI) in a bid to overcome a final block of the deal by a UK regulator.…
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Aug 22 (Reuters) – SoftBank Group-backed Arm Holdings' annual revenue dropped 1% due to a slowdown in smartphone sales, the chip designer disclosed in its paperwork for a U.S. initial public offering (IPO) that is expected to be the largest…

With Donald Trump skipping the GOP debate Wednesday, his rivals now have a great shot to prove their salt — by laying out their plans to beat President Joe Biden and lead the nation to a better future after his disasters.…
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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., August 15, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights
A look at the day ahead in U.S.…
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Among the many alleged co-conspirators accused in Fulton County, Georgia, last week of helping Donald Trump attempt to overturn the 2020 election, two stand out: Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.
Both are attorneys who were once competent and reasonably…

When Angela, a Malayan sun bear, stood up and waved to visitors to her enclosure at the Huangzhou Zoo in China on July 27, she became a social media sensation. Her build, posture and seemingly friendly gesture seemed so human that people speculated tha…

“This is why we are saying you also need China as a partner not only in regard to fighting climate change but as a partner in other sectors so that they could not say to Europe, ‘we’ve banned all the raw material’, and then the economy in Europe [goes]…

There was good news and bad news for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over the weekend.
The good news: Ukraine will finally be receiving the F-16 fighter jets it so desperately wants.…
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LONDON, Aug 22 (Reuters Breakingviews) – The dangers of investing in Arm are easy to find in the pages of its initial public offering document, disclosed late on Monday. Yet the artificial intelligence-based opportunities for SoftBank Group&#8217…

Japan will release water from the stricken Fukushima power plant into the Pacific Ocean from Thursday, 12 years after one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters.
Japan insists that the gradual discharge of the more than 500 Olympic swimming pools’ wort…

Open this photo in gallery: Copper is expected to play a key role in the shift to electrification – for everything from electric vehicles to charging infrastructure, batteries, transmission lines and solar and wind technologies.iStockPhoto…
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South Korea's coastguard said Tuesday it had arrested a Chinese national who tried to enter the country after travelling by jet ski from China — a journey of more than 300 kilometres (186 miles).…
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