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PARIS – Boeing is selling its 737 Max planes again.The company announced at the Paris Air Show on Tuesday that International Airlines Group, the parent company of British Airways and other carriers, signed a letter of intent for 200 Boeing 737 aircraft.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 22:21:18 +0000
SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco supervisors are considering whether to move the city toward becoming the first in the United States to ban all sales of electronic cigarettes to crack down on youth vaping.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 02:53:27 +0000
HONG KONG – The largely youth-driven movement of black-clad protesters challenging Hong Kong’s government over an unpopular extradition bill is a coalition operating without a clear leadership structure.
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BEIJING – A strong earthquake that hit Sichuan province in southern China late Monday night killed 11 people and injured 122, the local government said.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 01:55:51 +0000
CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela’s U.S.-backed opposition on Monday came under increasing scrutiny for a case in which two activists allegedly misappropriated funds designated to help Venezuelan security forces who deserted and crossed into Colombia.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:49:29 +0000
CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico – Mexico’s efforts to slow Central American migration across its territory showed some bite Monday as some people turned around to head south in the face of increased enforcement, while government officials said they would target human smuggling rings.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:42:47 +0000
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran will surpass the uranium-stockpile limit set by its nuclear deal in the next 10 days, an official said Monday, raising pressure on Europeans trying to save the accord a year after the U.S. withdrawal lit the fuse for the heightened tensions now between Tehran and Washington.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:31:34 +0000
BERLIN – Diplomats and climate experts gathered Monday in Germany for U.N.-hosted talks on climate change amid growing public pressure for governments to act faster against global warming.
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Japan is protesting what is said was an unauthorized Chinese maritime survey within its economic waters near disputed East China Sea islands.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 05:03:50 +0000
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – As lights turned back on across Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay after a massive blackout hit tens of millions people, authorities were still largely in the dark about what caused the collapse of the interconnected grid and tallied the damage from the unforeseen disaster.
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