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Long a favorite vacation destination for North Americans, Mexico is also becoming increasingly popular with tourists from Europe seeking to enjoy the country’s seemingly endless sunshine, stunning scenery, and beautiful sandy beaches-not to mention its astonishingly rich cultural heritage. So important are Mexico’s ancient Aztec and Mayan sites and historic colonial cities that many have […]
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France’s trade deficit narrowed to stand at 4.61 billion euros ($5.09 billion) in July compared to 5.25 billion euros a month earlier, as export flows increased and imports slowed, official customs data showed on Friday. Separately, France recorded in July its first current account surplus since January, Bank of France data showed. The current account […]
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Serena Williams has another shot at winning a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam singles title after demolishing Elina Svitolina to reach the US Open final. The American, 37, overpowered the Ukrainian fifth seed to win 6-3 6-1. Williams, seeded eighth, is aiming for her first Grand Slam win since giving birth in September 2017. The six-time […]
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Vitamin E acetate is now a focus of the investigation into vaping-related respiratory illnesses that have sickened 34 people in New York, state health officials say. As of Thursday afternoon, there have been 361 confirmed or suspected cases reported by state health departments nationwide. Two people have died, one in Illinois and the other in […]
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Alibaba Group (BABA.N) has agreed to buy e-commerce business Kaola from Chinese gaming company NetEase for $2 billion, adding a platform that specializes in supplying curated luxury goods from abroad to domestic consumers. Alibaba, which is looking for new revenue drivers as the e-commerce market at home matures, will also invest $700 million for a […]
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Andreina Pirrone left Venezuela for Argentina six years ago as her country was spiraling toward the worst humanitarian crisis in its history. She did not know what the future would hold, but she was certain it would be brighter. Pirrone, an employee at a pasta factory in Buenos Aires, is now feeling a sense of […]
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Wolfgang the beagle started with a modest weight loss goal: to fit through the door. While some might be ashamed that their weight once made leaving the house impossible, Wolfgang doesn’t mind. The 5-year-old beagle just wants to play outside with his friends, and his short weight loss journey has been pretty successful — he’s […]
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Scientists have developed a robotic device that could transform the treatment for strokes, which each year strike 795,000 Americans and kill 140,000. It’s a wormlike robot designed to wend its way through the maze of tiny blood vessels inside the human brain to break up the blood clots causing the stroke and restore the flow […]
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The body of a kidnapped toddler was discovered earlier this week by first-responders still strapped in her car seat outside of Pittsburgh, prosecutors said on Thursday. When Nalani Johnson was found on Tuesday afternoon in Blairsville, Pennsylvania, she was still buckled into the same car seat she was using when the toddler was snatched from […]
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Japanese internet firm Rakuten said on Friday it was pushing back the commercial launch of its mobile service, a setback to billionaire founder and chief executive Hiroshi Mikitani’s ambitions to shake up the country’s telcoms market. Shares in Rakuten dropped 7% after media reports pre-empted official news of the delayed service, which is being closely […]
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