Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | Three key U.S. Democratic senators on Tuesday released a proposal for a minimum tax on corporate profits to help pay for President Joe Biden’s economic agenda. The proposal, released by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Angus King, would create a …
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Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | Iran denounced as “political” the recent human rights report on Iran by the United Nations, Tasnim news agency reported on Tuesday. “Iran constantly moves towards enhancement and betterment of human rights, and this is based on religious guidelines, not international obligations or political reports,” Kazem Gharibabadi, …
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Los Angeles, U.S. | Xinhua | Though surplus COVID-19 vaccine doses in U.S. states will soon expire, the White House Vaccine Task Force rejected the proposal to donate unused doses to other countries, the Washington Post recently reported. Health authorities and hospitals in Southern California have seen the demand for COVID-19 …
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Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | The United States on Monday suspended 700 million U.S. dollars in economic aid to Sudan after the country’s military forces arrested civilian leaders and officials. “The United States condemns the actions taken overnight by Sudanese military forces,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said during a press …
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Max Verstappen held off Lewis Hamilton by just 1.3s in a titanic title fight at Texas Austin, Texas, U.S. | Xinhua | Red Bull’s Max Verstappen extended his lead in the 2021 Formula One World Championship by holding off Lewis Hamilton to win an absorbing United States Grand Prix at Austin …
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🔴 FT: Man United 0 Liverpool 5 London, UK| THE INDEPENDENT | Mohamed Salah crowned an outstanding individual display with a hat-trick and an assist as Liverpool recorded their biggest away win against Manchester United. Liverpool raced into an early 2-0 lead, Naby Keita arrowing Salah’s pass home for a fifth-minute …
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Havana, Cuba | Xinhua | Cuba reported on Saturday the lowest number of daily infections of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in four months, with 1,393 cases registered in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 944,431. In Cuba, an accelerated mass immunization process against COVID-19 is underway, in which …
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Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | The best option to save the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), from collapse is that all the parties to the deal fully comply with the original text of the JCPOA, said Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former …
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Bogota, Colombia | Xinhua | The Colombian government said on Saturday that Colombia’s most-wanted drug trafficker “Otoniel” was captured. According to the authorities, Dairo Antonio Usuga, who headed the country’s largest drug trafficking gang known as the Gulf Clan, was captured in a rural area of the Department of Antioquia …
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Washington, US | Xinhua | Rates of gun violence in the United States surged by almost a third during last year’s COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published Thursday in Scientific Reports. Researchers identified around 51,000 incidents of gun violence across the United States during the 13-month period of the …
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