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Jeff Bezos's net worth shrank by $15.2 billion Friday, leading a wide-ranging slump that erased $134 billion from the fortunes of the 500 richest people in the world.Shares of Amazon.com Inc. slid 8.8% amid a broader selloff in the market, dropping Bezos' net worth to $191.5 billion, accordi...
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The majority of Thais support Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin’s plan to reclassify cannabis as a narcotic and limit its use to medical purposes, according to a survey.About 76% of people who took part in a survey said they “totally agreed” or “rather agreed” with Sretth...
Pakistan is a step closer to getting a new government after a potential prime ministerial candidate pledged support for his main rival.Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday dropped out of the race for the top job and said his party would support any candidate proposed by the Nawaz Sharif-led Pakistan Mu...
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Torrential downpours claimed the lives of more than 1,000 in Pakistan, where almost half a million people are in relief camps. A massive deluge crashed across Mississippi in the past week, leaving the roughly 150,000 residents of capital city Jackson without reliable access to clean drinking water.C...
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The Biden administration is preparing to sell US$1.1 billion (S$1.5 billion) in missiles and radar support to Taiwan, according to an official familiar with the matter.The package would include as much as US$650 million in continued support for a surveillance radar sold earlier, about US$90 million ...
India and China traded insults over their diverging interests in Sri Lanka, after a controversial Chinese scientific research ship called at the island nation despite New Delhi's security concerns.Sri Lanka "needs support, not unwanted pressure or unnecessary controversies to serve another ...
The strikes that erupted across Britain's railways and airlines this summer are about to spread across the public services, extending the "summer of discontent" into the autumn and beyond.Workers in schools, hospital and the courts are threatening to walk off the job in the coming week...
Hungary issued a key permit for the Russian-led expansion of its sole nuclear power plant, bolstering the nation's energy links with Moscow even as European Union peers seek to distance themselves over the invasion of Ukraine.The National Atomic Energy Agency issued an "establishment permit...
Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Yasutoshi Nishimura visited a controversial war shrine on Saturday (Aug 13), Kyodo News has reported, in a move that could potentially sour relations with China and South Korea.The visit to Yasukuni Shrine was the first by a Japanese minister since Pr...
Germany's presidential palace in Berlin is no longer lit at night, the city of Hanover is turning off warm water in the showers of its pools and gyms, and municipalities across the country are preparing heating havens to keep people safe from the cold. And that's just the beginning of a cris...
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr pushed for a tax on digital service providers to help narrow budget deficit and debt levels in his first speech before Congress as he pledged to prioritise fiscal management."Our tax system will be adjusted in order to catch up with the rapid development...
A little-known Danish drugmaker won formal approval in the European Union for its vaccine against monkeypox as the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the outbreak a global health emergency.Bavarian Nordic A/S's smallpox vaccine Imvanex got permission to be labelled for monkeypox and anothe...
Mr Mario Draghi has signalled that he is determined to resign as Italy's prime minister next week since he does not have the backing of all the parties in his splintered governing alliance.Italian President Sergio Mattarella rejected Mr Draghi's resignation on Thursday (July 14), urging him ...
The man accused of shooting former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe tested a gun at a facility once used by the Unification Church.The church, also known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU), said in a statement late on Tuesday (July 12) that Tetsuya Yamagami "test...
French railway workers walked out in a dispute over pay on Wednesday (July 6), adding to travel disruptions across Europe that saw strikes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport last week.A spokesman for state rail operator SNCF confirmed service cuts announced earlier, with TGV high-speed expresses wit...
European lawmakers are under pressure from Ukraine to block plans to treat gas as a green asset, plunging into serious doubt an EU Parliament vote that not long ago seemed set to endorse the proposal.The vote is set to take place today Jul y 6 and was supposed to mark the easy passage of a New Year&...
Top German industries could face collapse because of cuts in the supplies of Russian natural gas, the country's top union official warned before crisis talks with Chancellor Olaf Scholz begin today (Monday)."Because of the gas bottlenecks, entire industries are in danger of permanently coll...
Bloomberg, Johannesburg European governments have been alarmed by a Russian disinformation campaign that seeks to deflect criticism that President Vladimir Putin's war with Ukraine risks leaving millions of people in Africa facing famine.Russian diplomats have gone on a media offensive in r...
Travel disruptions due to strikes at Paris' main airport worsened on Saturday (July 2), with France's civil aviation authority ordering more departures to be cut.Officials told airlines to scrap 20 per cent of flights between 7am and 2pm (1pm and 8pm Singapore time) at Charles de Gaulle airp...
President Vladimir Putin offered to have Russian Railways invest in Indonesia's new capital, in a sign of warming ties with South-east Asia's biggest economy as the United States and its allies seek to isolate Moscow.Mr Putin said Moscow could take part in President Joko Widodo's plan to...
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