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Former U.S. President Donald Trump would be a «transactional president» if he returns to power, but is unlikely to blow up the Biden administration's rebuilding of relations with China, according to Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang said that tech innovations should not be used as a way to restrict or contain other countries.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The wife of U.S. Senator Bob Menendez on Monday sought to sever the government's corruption case against her from her husband, according to a court document.

petro cryptocurrency that President Nicolas Maduro launched six years ago to sidestep US sanctions, but which never took off and became embroiled in a graft scandal. All crypto wallets held on the Patria Platform — the only website where the petro was tradeable — will be shut down on Monday, January 15, according to a message displayed on the platform's site. Any remaining petros are being converted to bolivars, the ailing local currency. The cryptocurrency was launched with great pomp and ceremony in February 2018, backed by Venezuela's vast petrol reserves, and priced at US $60 per unit.

Bloomberg reported. The company is selling a $20-a-month consumer version of Copilot, with access to OpenAI's latest ChatGPT technology and image-creation features, said Redmond in an official statement. Consumers with a cloud subscription to Office will be able to use Copilot to help answer questions, summarize data, and create content in Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.

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Portfolio Wealth Advisors President and CIO Lee Munson discusses the expected release of big bank earnings, the Fed's rate cuts and shares his market outlook for the year.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Boeing will add further quality inspections for the 737 MAX after an accident earlier this month where a fuselage panel was blown off an airplane, the head of its commercial airplanes division said Monday.

President can make an increasingly strong case that he’s helped fix inflation.

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Yemen in response to the Iran-backed rebel group’s attacks on ships in the Red Sea may be limited, a former U.S. diplomat says.Frank Lowenstein, who served as the U.S.

IMF chief told AFP. AI will affect 60 percent of jobs in advanced economies, the International Monetary Fund's managing director, Kristalina Georgieva, said in an interview in Washington, shortly before departing for the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

South Korean regulators will not give the green light to a domestic Bitcoin spot ETF before the nation’s next general elections, insiders claim.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score Updates, 2nd T20: Ind vs Aus, Rohit Sharma-led India will look to take an unassailable lead in the series when they take on Afghanistan in the second T20 at the Holkar Cricket Stadium in Indore today.Rohit and Co will be looking for a repeat of their performance in the first T20, while trying to iron out a few kinks in their armour in the last two T20s they will play before the Twenty20 World Cup. Meanwhile, the likes of Jitesh Sharma, Shivam Dubey, Axar Patel and Washington Sundar will be looking to produce some memorable knocks to impress the selectors.Meanwhile, Virat Kohli's comeback to the Indian team will mean some changes to the line-up to accommodate the veteran batsman.However, Rohit and Co will do well not to underestimate the threat posed by the Afghan Lions, who have the credentials to beat any team in the world on their day.

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The U.S. military has struck another Houthi-controlled site in Yemen that it had determined was putting commercial vessels in the Red Sea at risk

WASHINGTON — In a significant shift in federal drug policy, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has recommended reclassifying cannabis from a Schedule I to a Schedule II substance, acknowledging the plant's medical utility. This recommendation, revealed through documents obtained by a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, is now pending approval from President Biden.

Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) as «highly objectionable», India has registered a 'strong protest' with the British High Commissioner in India. This comes after British envoy Jane Marriott visited Mirpur city in the PoK region along with an official of the UK Foreign Office. «India has taken a serious note of the highly objectionable visit of the British High Commissioner in Islamabad, along with a UK Foreign Office official, to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on 10 January 2024,» the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement on Saturday. «Such infringement of India's sovereignty and territorial integrity is unacceptable,» it added. Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra has lodged a strong protest with the British High Commissioner in India on this 'infringement'. The Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh «have been and shall always remain an integral part of India,» MEA added. In October last year, the US envoy to Pakistan, Donald Blome, visited the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir region. New Delhi conveyed to Washington its 'strong objection' to the visit and urged the international community to respect its «sovereignty and territorial integrity».