Year: 2019
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Boris Johnson’s chaotic path to power finally pays off
Boris Johnson aspires to be a modern-day Winston Churchill. Critics fear he's a British Donald Trump
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Toymaker Hasbro profit draws power from ‘Avengers’, ‘Magic’ card game
Hasbro Inc on Tuesday beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit, powered by higher demand for action toys of blockbuster "Avengers: Endgame" and collectible card game Magic: The…
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Li Peng, hardline Chinese leader in Tiananmen crackdown, dies at 90
Along with then-paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, Li was seen as an unapologetic hard-liner responsible for ordering the assault that crushed…
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Hundreds of black deaths in 1919 are being remembered
Researchers believe that in a span of 10 months, more than 250 African Americans were killed in at least 25…
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Tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans demand governor resign
Puerto Ricans went out to the streets to complaint over persistent corruption and mismanagement by the island's two main political…
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“The piece that soccer needed”: women referees arrive to Paraguay’s first division
The inclusion of women in world soccer has been growing in recent years and both players and referees have more…
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Sweden in search of South American “white gold”
Several governments and car manufacturers, in the expectation of bigger demand for electric cars in the next years, are seeking to become…
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“Sanctions are reasons for war”, says Iranian chancellor to the United States
The Iranian Foreign Minister described the sanctions applied by the United States government against some countries as "reasons for war"
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro says government may cut worker protections to boost job creation
"What I'm trying to offer the worker is this: fewer rights and jobs, or all their rights and unemployment," said…
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Panama becomes first Central American nation to ban plastic bags
The isthmus nation of roughly 4 million people joined more than 60 other countries that have totally or partially banned…
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