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NEW YORK, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. dollar rose modestly in late trading on Tuesday amid weakness in the euro and the British pound.

The regime of authoritarian Belarusian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka says it will ban a wide range of food imports from European Union members states, the United States, and other countries starting next year in retaliation for sanctions imposed against Minsk.

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden told his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, Tuesday that the U.S. and its European allies have "deep concerns" about Moscow massing its forces near the Ukrainian border and would respond with "strong" economic sanctions if Russia invades its one-time satellite country, the White House said.

A federal judge in Georgia issued a nationwide injunction that prevents the U.S. government from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on federal contractors, temporarily shutting down the last remaining vaccine requirement by the Biden administration.

London [UK] December 8 (ANI/Xinhua): Britain reported 101 new cases of the Omicron COVID variant taking the total cases to 437, British health authorities confirmed Tuesday. The early indications are that the Omicron variant of coronavirus is more transmissible than Delta, said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as he updated his team of ministers on the latest COVID-19 situation at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday. Scienti

The surprise Japanese attack on the US fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 was a tactical victory but a strategic defeat, clearing the way for US entry into WWII. History teaches that it was inevitable, but was it?

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Boeing and 777 Partners on Tuesday announced the Miami-based investment firm will nearly double its 737 MAX order book with the purchase of 30 additional jets valued at 3.7 billion U.S. dollars at list prices.

New Delhi [India], December 8 (ANI): Sharing its recommendations for the forthcoming Union Budget 2022-23, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has strongly urged the Centre to continue its investment focus and enhance capital expenditure in areas such as infrastructure to promote growth in the economy at a time when the consumption demand has not picked up adequately. "While the economy is showing strong signs of r

U.S. officials are hopeful of developing a good working relationship with Germany's incoming chancellor, Olaf Scholz, whose new coalition government featuring the Social Democrats, the Greens and the neoliberal Free Democrats, has already indicated it will observe a longstanding nuclear sharing arrangement allowing the U.S. to continue to deploy 20 atomic bombs at an airbase in western Germany.

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Shell has scrapped plans to invest in Cambo, a proposed oilfield off the Shetland Islands. The fossil fuel supermajor has been shedding UK assets for a while. It sold a large refinery complex in Cheshire in 2011 and US$3.8 billion (Pound 2.64 billion) of North Sea assets

About 100 Alcoa employees have taken part in Perths annual Pride Parade in support of Western Australias LGBTQIA+ community.

BEIJING, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Boeing and Taikoo (Shandong) Aircraft Engineering Co. Ltd. (STAECO) will expand capacity for the 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighter (BCF) in China, Boeing China announced Tuesday.

America's diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Games, though practically a virtually pointless protest, will only inspire China to make the 2022 Winter Olympics an even bigger success.

Monday's India-Russia summit, which resulted in the signing of 28 agreements, has left no doubt that, for New Delhi, Moscow is as important as any of its key partners in the West, Asia or Oceania.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly ordered the government to outline detailed proposals for the state-run energy giant Rosneft to supply up to 10 billion cubic meters of pipelined natural gas exports to Europe.

Talks have begun between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Joe Biden, with the pair expected to discuss a range of issues, including how to de-escalate a worsening standoff over Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is not currently contemplating inviting the US to discussions designed to negotiate peace in the war-torn Donbass region, the Kremlin has insisted.

The video link meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US counterpart Joe Biden wrapped up after just over two hours. The Kremlin had pledged the leaders would talk ?for as long as it takes? to resolve open issues.

A former member of the Saudi Royal Guard has been arrested in France on Tuesday on an Interpol warrant, over his suspected role in the high-profile murder in 2018 of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, France's RTL Radio reported.

BASRA, IRAQ - A bomb killed four people in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Tuesday, the first such attack in years in a part of the country that has enjoyed relative stability, and a senior official said Islamic State militants were suspected of carrying it out.

KIGALI - There is nothing glamorous about being a YouTuber in Rwanda, says John Williams Ntwali, whose channel Pax TV is a year old. The pay is poor, the threats frequent and the risk of prison all too real.

Yemen replaces central bank governor, deputy amid currency crash Aljazeera.com

NAIROBI, KENYA - Tyson Nuthu works in the outdoors industry in Nairobi and sees the presence of China everywhere.

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued on Monday a "level 4" recommendation against travel to France, Portugal, Jordan, Cyprus, Andorra, Liechtenstein and Tanzania, adding to a long list of destinations