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Stocks tumble as Wall Street's fears turn to China

The Dow and the broader US stock market fell to close sharply lower Monday as Chinese real estate conglomerate Evergrande’s debt crisis made American investors uneasy.



It was the worst performance since May for the S&P and the Nasdaq, while the Dow logged its worst day since July.

Stocks spent the whole day deep in the red and the Dow fell more than 970 points at its low point.

The market recovered slightly before…

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Toegevoegd door garetet op 21 September 2021 op 3.02 — Geen reacties

HD Homeland Security chief to travel to US Southern border as thousands crowd in makeshift camp

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday he will travel to the US southern border as the Biden administration grapples with the thousands of migrants who have amassed in Del Rio, Texas, and ramps up deportation flights to Haiti.



“I will be traveling to the border myself,” Mayorkas told CNN’s Jim Acosta, though he did not specify when. Mayorkas added that he’s in regular touch with…

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Toegevoegd door garetet op 20 September 2021 op 15.33 — Geen reacties

Homeland Security chief to travel to US Southern border as thousands crowd in makeshift camp

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday he will travel to the US southern border as the Biden administration grapples with the thousands of migrants who have amassed in Del Rio, Texas, and ramps up deportation flights to Haiti.



“I will be traveling to the border myself,” Mayorkas told CNN’s Jim Acosta, though he did not specify when. Mayorkas added that he’s in regular touch with…

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Toegevoegd door garetet op 20 September 2021 op 14.57 — Geen reacties

Afghanistan's women judges are in hiding, fearing reprisal attacks from men they jailed

Tugging at the folds of the traditional hijab dress, two young sisters jostle and laugh to try to get their mother’s attention as she fries onions on the stove.



Along with their 6-month-old sister, the girls are oblivious to the threat they now face from the Taliban, Afghanistan’s new rulers.

Their mother, Nabila, is one of 250 female judges ordered not to return to work by a regime…

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Toegevoegd door garetet op 20 September 2021 op 4.43 — Geen reacties

Students and lecturers at Hong Kong's most prestigious university

Students and lecturers at Hong Kong’s most prestigious university returned from summer break this month to a very different institution.

The Democracy Wall at the University of Hong Kong (better known as HKU) — a pinboard where students once shared political thoughts — is gone. The student union, which once advocated for students, is all but defunct, with four of its members facing charges of advocating terrorism.

Although many students…

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Toegevoegd door garetet op 19 September 2021 op 9.39 — Geen reacties

One of Asia's most prestigious universities is on the frontline

Students and lecturers at Hong Kong’s most prestigious university returned from summer break this month to a very different institution.



The Democracy Wall at the University of Hong Kong (better known as HKU) — a pinboard where students once shared political thoughts — is gone. The student union, which once advocated for students, is all but defunct, with four of its members facing…

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Toegevoegd door garetet op 19 September 2021 op 6.25 — Geen reacties

France recalls its ambassadors to the US and Australia over new national

The French government has immediately recalled its ambassador to the US for consultation in response to the recently announced national security partnership with the United Kingdom and Australia.



Philippe Étienne, the French ambassador to the US, confirmed the news when reached for comment.

In a statement, Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French minister for Europe and foreign affairs, said Friday that the move was made at the…

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Toegevoegd door garetet op 18 September 2021 op 7.02 — Geen reacties

France recalls its ambassadors to the US and Australia over new national security

The French government has immediately recalled its ambassador to the US for consultation in response to the recently announced national security partnership with the United Kingdom and Australia.



Philippe Étienne, the French ambassador to the US, confirmed the news when reached for comment.

In a statement, Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French minister for Europe and foreign affairs, said Friday that the move was made at the…

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Toegevoegd door garetet op 18 September 2021 op 5.17 — Geen reacties

France recalls its ambassadors to the US and Australia over new national security partnership

The French government has immediately recalled its ambassador to the US for consultation in response to the recently announced national security partnership with the United Kingdom and Australia.



Philippe Étienne, the French ambassador to the US, confirmed the news when reached for comment.

In a statement, Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French minister for Europe and foreign affairs, said Friday that the move was made at the…

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Toegevoegd door garetet op 18 September 2021 op 3.22 — Geen reacties

Australia's decades long balancing act between the US and China is over It chose Washington

For more than 20 years, Australia tried to maintain good relations with both the United States and China.



It was good for trade and peaceful regional relations. But on Thursday, with the announcement of a new security deal with the United States and the United Kingdom, which will see Australia eventually field nuclear-powered submarines, Canberra made its position clear — it has chosen Washington over Beijing.

By choosing…

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Toegevoegd door garetet op 17 September 2021 op 4.28 — Geen reacties

HD Biden and UK to help Australia acquire nuclear submarines in new pushback on China

President Joe Biden on Wednesday unveiled a new effort to help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines, a major step toward countering China as he works to build international backing for his approach to Beijing.

The announcement came as part of a new trilateral partnership among the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom that the three countries’ leaders jointly revealed Wednesday afternoon.

“The United States, Australia and the United Kingdom have…

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Toegevoegd door garetet op 16 September 2021 op 8.46 — Geen reacties

Watch Biden and UK to help Australia acquire nuclear submarines in new pushback on China

President Joe Biden on Wednesday unveiled a new effort to help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines, a major step toward countering China as he works to build international backing for his approach to Beijing.



The announcement came as part of a new trilateral partnership among the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom that the three countries’ leaders jointly revealed Wednesday afternoon.

“The United…

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Toegevoegd door garetet op 16 September 2021 op 7.56 — Geen reacties

Biden and UK to help Australia acquire nuclear submarines in new pushback on China

President Joe Biden on Wednesday unveiled a new effort to help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines, a major step toward countering China as he works to build international backing for his approach to Beijing.



The announcement came as part of a new trilateral partnership among the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom that the three countries’ leaders jointly revealed Wednesday afternoon.

“The United…

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Toegevoegd door garetet op 16 September 2021 op 5.30 — Geen reacties

Watch They wanted a new life in America. Instead they were killed by the US military

To the United States military, he was an ISIS-K facilitator they feared was involved in a plot to attack Kabul’s international airport.



To his family and colleagues at a US nonprofit, 43-year-old Zamarai Ahmadi was an aid worker applying for a US visa to get his family out of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

In the two weeks since US drone operatives fired a Hellfire missile at a car…

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Toegevoegd door garetet op 15 September 2021 op 6.58 — Geen reacties

They wanted a new life in America. Instead they were killed by the US military

To the United States military, he was an ISIS-K facilitator they feared was involved in a plot to attack Kabul’s international airport.



To his family and colleagues at a US nonprofit, 43-year-old Zamarai Ahmadi was an aid worker applying for a US visa to get his family out of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

In the two weeks since US drone operatives fired a Hellfire missile at a car…

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Toegevoegd door garetet op 15 September 2021 op 5.55 — Geen reacties

Watch The hard reality of Brexit is hitting Britain. It's costing everyone but Boris Johnson

From one end of the supply chain to the other, the UK’s food producers have endured a summer of trouble.



“The cold stores didn’t have enough space to hold our crops, so we had to throw away a week’s worth of production,” explains Iain Brown, vice chairman of East Scotland Growers (ESG). “And we’ve not had enough workers to harvest our vegetable crops, meaning they are going to waste.”

While food…

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Toegevoegd door garetet op 13 September 2021 op 2.36 — Geen reacties

The hard reality of Brexit is hitting Britain. It's costing everyone but Boris Johnson

From one end of the supply chain to the other, the UK’s food producers have endured a summer of trouble.



“The cold stores didn’t have enough space to hold our crops, so we had to throw away a week’s worth of production,” explains Iain Brown, vice chairman of East Scotland Growers (ESG). “And we’ve not had enough workers to harvest our vegetable crops, meaning they are going to waste.”

While food…

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Toegevoegd door garetet op 13 September 2021 op 1.03 — Geen reacties

Watch Twenty years later, case of five accused of plotting 9/11 terrorist attacks remains stalled

On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, pretrial hearings in the nine-year-long case against five men accused of plotting and executing the attacks continued in a heavily guarded military courtroom in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.



While the hearings this week were the first to be held in-person for a year and a half because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the case…

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Toegevoegd door garetet op 11 September 2021 op 4.56 — Geen reacties

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