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Before the onset of the virus, HSBC was already under pressure owing to China-US tensions and Brexit
World
17.08.2024
HSBC profits hammered by pandemic and soaring US-China tensions
Former pope Benedict XVI became seriously ill after visiting his sick brother in Germany in June and is "extremely frail", reports say
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17.08.2024
Former pope Benedict XVI 'extremely frail': report
People practice social distancing at Washington square park in San Francisco
World
17.08.2024
Top coronavirus advisor warns US in 'new phase' of pandemic
Irfaan Ali holds his son as he arrives at a campaign rally in Lusignan, Guyana on February 29, 2020
World
17.08.2024
Opposition candidate Ali sworn in as Guyana's president
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On Valentine's Day 2005, Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, who embodied the reconstruction of the country after its 1975-1990 civil war was killed in a monster bomb attack on his convoy
World 17.08.2024
Hariri assassination: the day that rocked Lebanon
The consequences of the Hariri murder still loom large over the Middle East
World 17.08.2024
Verdict looms in killing of Lebanon ex-PM Hariri
In one of many fronts in the increasingly poisonous US-Chinese relationship, President Donald Trump has threatened to ban the wildly popular app TikTok, citing national security concerns
World 17.08.2024
Microsoft to keep exploring TikTok deal after talks with Trump
Doctors treat a patient infected with COVID-19, which has pushed the Brazilian health care system to the brink, at the Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital de Clinicas, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on April 15, 2020
World 17.08.2024
Virus exposes cracks in Brazil's public health system
Journalists protest the murder of their colleague Maria Helena Ferral in Xalapa, Veracruz state, on April 1, 2020 -- a total of four journalists have been murdered in the country since the start of 2020
World 17.08.2024
Mexican journalist shot dead, the fourth in 2020
Djokhar Tsarnaev, 27, was sentenced to death in 2015 for planting two home-made bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013, killing three people and injuring 264 others
World 17.08.2024
Trump calls for new death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber
The Roma and Sinti murdered during the Holocaust are honoured at a memorial site in the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald in eastern Germany
World 17.08.2024
EU chief marks Roma Holocaust Memorial Day with call for solidarity
Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley seen carrying out final preparations in the SpaceX "Endeavour" which should land off the coast of Pensacola at 2:48 pm (1848 GMT)
World 17.08.2024
America's first crewed spaceship in decade splashes down off Florida
A mural depicts US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad (L) and Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. Under the US-Taliban deal, 'intra-Afghan' talks were to start in March but hit delays amid political infighting in Kabul
World 17.08.2024
Afghan govt urges Taliban to extend ceasefire
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