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Trump says he has approved a deal for purchase of TikTok
President Donald Trump said Saturday he has approved a deal between TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, and Oracle (ORCL), though it is unclear...
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TikTok and WeChat: US to ban app downloads in 48 hours
TikTok and WeChat will be banned from US app stores from Sunday, unless President Donald Trump agrees to a last-minute...
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2 dead, 14 wounded in mass shooting in Rochester, New York
No suspects are in custody. There are two people dead and at least 14 others injured following a mass shooting...
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Three women, 2 from Africa, in final five for WTO leadership race
The 25-year-old World Trade Organization has never had a leader who is female or from Africa. Three women, two of...
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: US Supreme Court judge dies of cancer, aged 87
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an iconic champion of women's rights, has died of cancer at the age...
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Stolen books worth £2.5m found under floor of Romanian house
About 200 "irreplaceable" books worth more than £2.5m ($3.2m), which were stolen from a warehouse in London, have been found...
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First volume of Barack Obama’s memoir to be released two weeks after US election
The first black US president's book will cover his historic rise to the White House and his first term in...
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Yemen in ‘a desperate situation’ as famine looms and hundreds of thousands face starvation
The country's impoverished but "generous people" have a record of taking in refugees - and "now need international solidarity". Yemen...
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Unicef condemns jailing of Nigeria teen for ‘blasphemy’
The UN children's agency Unicef has called on the Nigerian authorities to urgently review an Islamic court's decision to sentence...
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Venezuela: UN investigators accuse authorities of crimes against humanity
United Nations (UN) investigators say Venezuela's government has "committed egregious violations" amounting to crimes against humanity. Cases of killings, torture,...
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