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Lady Gaga, Celine Dion add sparkle to star-studded Olympic show
Lady Gaga, Celine Dion and French-Malian singer Aya Nakamura joined dancers, an opera diva and even a heavy metal band in an opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics that sought to proudly showcase French culture with a modern twist.
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Airbus and Boeing supremacy secure despite turbulence
Boeing's safety troubles and the Airbus scramble to ramp up production should have left a gap for smaller rivals to challenge their dominatiion of the commercial airliner market.
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G20 seeks common ground on taxing super-rich
G20 finance ministers are expected to take a first step towards international cooperation on taxing the super-rich Friday, with a deal in Brazil likely to call for individual nations to strengthen their own measures, rather than delivering a set of unified regulations.
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Stocks rise as inflation data boosts rate cut hopes
Major stock markets pushed higher Friday as traders welcomed data showing US inflation is slowing, firming expectations for the Federal Reserve to start cutting interest rates in September.
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Spain train driver jailed for 2.5 years over deadly 2013 crash
A Spanish court on Friday sentenced a train driver and a safety director to two-and-a-half years in prison over a 2013 crash that was the nation's deadliest rail disaster in nearly eight decades.
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Russian central bank hikes key rate to fight inflation
Russia's central bank raised its key interest to 18 percent on Friday, the sixth hike in just over a year as it seeks to tame soaring price rises.
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UK to reveal £20 bn hole in public finances: reports
Britain's new Labour government will announce next week that the country's public finances have an additional hole of around £20 billion ($26 billion), risking tax rises in an upcoming budget, media reported on Friday.
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US Fed's favored inflation measure cools further in June
The US Federal Reserve's favored inflation measure eased further in June, according to government data published Friday, in more good news for policymakers ahead of next week's interest rate decision.
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Electric car woes force German supplier ZF to axe jobs
German car parts manufacturer ZF said Friday it would cut a fifth to a quarter of jobs in Germany as it struggled with the switch to electric vehicles and foreign competition.
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France's high-speed railway hit by 'sabotage' hours before Olympics
France's high-speed rail network was hit by arson attacks that disrupted travel for hundreds of thousands of passengers on Friday, just hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
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Greece's 'Instagram island' Santorini nears saturation point
One of the most enduring images of Greece's summer travel brand is the world-famous sunset on Santorini Island, framed by sea-blue church domes on a jagged cliff high above a volcanic caldera.
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Mongolians fight plastic pollution in vast steppe
Mongolian herder Purev Batmunkh sighs as he picks through waste strewn across a field -- the refuse of an unsightly and deadly waste pollution problem affecting swathes of the steppe.
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TSMC leads chipmaker plunge as trade resumes after typhoon pause
Taiwanese giant TSMC tumbled with several other leading chip makers Friday as traders returned from a typhoon-imposed two-day break to play catch-up with a global tech rout.
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In swing state Pennsylvania, middle class struggles to get by
The giant steelworks that greets visitors to Allentown, Pennsylvania once symbolized the city's success as an industrial hub. Today, its middle-class residents struggle to overcome the long-term impacts of post-pandemic inflation.
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Five things to know about Venezuela
Venezuela, the once-prosperous South American country now scarred by years of economic ruin and political repression, holds elections on July 28, with authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro seeking a third term.
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Historic French club Bordeaux to become amateur after bankruptcy
Former French Ligue 1 champions Bordeaux on Thursday said they will become an amateur club for the first time in almost 90 years after filing for bankruptcy.
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Video game actors to strike in California
Hollywood's video game actors will go on strike early Friday to demand safeguards against artificial intelligence, the US actors' union announced.
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US rejects plan for G20 deal to tax super-rich
The United States sees no need to negotiate an international agreement on taxing the super-wealthy, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday, highlighting divisions on a plan that is top of the agenda at a G20 finance ministers' meeting in Rio de Janeiro.
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American Airlines reports lower profits but wins on IT outage
American Airlines lowered its 2024 outlook Thursday on lingering effects of a botched booking system upgrade, but shares rallied as it touted a speedy recovery to last week's IT outage that plagued rivals.
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US sees no need for global deal to tax super-rich: Yellen
The United States sees no need to negotiate an international agreement on taxing the super-wealthy, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday on the sideline of a G20 finance ministers' meeting.
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US stocks rise after tech-led selloff
Wall Street stocks rose Thursday as robust US economic growth boosted sentiment following a tech-led selloff, but European markets wavered following a raft of disappointing company results.
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Deutsche Bahn suffers 16-fold jump in losses in first half
Germany's state-owned train operator Deutsche Bahn said Thursday that its year-on-year net losses soared 16-fold in the first half of 2024, reflecting the impacts of extreme weather, strikes and upgrades to its ageing network.
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In Rio, G20 finance ministers to mull taxing the super-rich
Faced with growing global inequality, G20 finance ministers meeting Thursday in Rio de Janeiro will tackle the thorny issue of taxes for the super-rich, a topic that has divided member states.
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European rights court upholds French law against buying sex
A French law criminalising clients of sex workers does not infringe on the European Convention on Human Rights, the continent's top rights court ruled Thursday.
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Bangladesh PM surveys destruction as unrest recedes
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wept Thursday as she surveyed the destruction wrought by days of deadly unrest, as student leaders weighed the future of the protests that precipitated the disorder.
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Sweden seeks to be winemaking's next frontier
Far north of iconic wine regions like Bordeaux and Tuscany, Sweden is seeing a burgeoning industry of vineyards and a first generation of winemakers trying to carve out a niche.
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Refining and gas give TotalEnergies Q2 blues
French oil heavyweight TotalEnergies on Thursday reported slumping profits in the second quarter, blaming lower margins in refining and falling sales and prices for natural gas.
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Nissan shares plunge after profit warning
Nissan tumbled more than 10 percent on Thursday after the Japanese automaker issued a profit warning, citing "intense sales competition", especially in the United States.
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Bangladesh relaxes curfew as unrest recedes
Bangladesh further eased a nationwide curfew Thursday as students weighed the future of their protest campaign against civil service hiring rules that sparked days of deadly unrest last week.
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Foreign residents surge in Japan as number of citizens drops
The number of foreign nationals living in Japan has hit a record high, according to official data released Wednesday that also showed the nation's largest-ever yearly drop in Japanese citizens.
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Asian markets track tech-led plunge on Wall St, yen extends gains
Asian markets tumbled Thursday after a tech-fuelled sell-off saw Wall Street tank, as disappointing earnings caused traders to panic that a months-long rally in the sector may have been overdone.
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New Japan film camera aimed at 'nostalgic' young fans
Keita Suzuki leads a group of young analogue photography fans around a coastal city in Japan, stopping to snap pastel hydrangea blooms with bulky vintage film cameras.