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Evergrande crisis shows cracks in China's property market
Evergrande's troubles have raised fears that China's residential and commercial property market, which drives up to a third of the world's second-largest economy, could crumble
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A harsh new reality for Afghan women and girls in Taliban-run schools
Just as they did when they ruled most of Afghanistan in the late 1990s, the Taliban seem intent on ruling not strictly by decree, but by inference and intimidation
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Global markets swoon as worries mount over superpowers' plans
The catalyst for the swoon was the continued turmoil at China Evergrande Group, one of that country's top three developers of residential properties
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Britain signals intent to revert to the imperial system
The British government said it was taking steps to return to its traditional system of imperial weights and measures, allowing shops and market stalls to sell fruits and vegetables labeled in pounds and ounces alone, rather than in the metric system's grams and kilograms
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How the US helped, and hampered, the escape of Afghan journalists
Major American news organisations ended up dealing directly with Qatar's government, which had cultivated a relationship with the Taliban
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The battle for digital privacy is reshaping the internet
Media publishers, app-makers and e-commerce shops are now exploring different paths to surviving a privacy-conscious internet, in some cases overturning their business models
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Merkel leaves the German economy with trouble under the hood
During her tenure, economists say, Germany neglected to build world-class digital infrastructure, bungled a hasty exit from nuclear power, and became alarmingly dependent on China as a market for its autos and other exports
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For some, Afghanistan outcome affirms a warning: Beware the blob
The term "Blob" is generally understood to describe members of the mainstream foreign-policy establishment who share a collective belief in the obligation of the US to pursue an aggressive, interventionist policy in the post-9/11 world
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As Russians vote, resignation, anger and fear of a post-Putin unknown
To many, Putin remains a hero, especially for his assertive foreign policy, while those who oppose him are retreating, as they put it, into their own oases or parallel worlds
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A nick to Apple's profits could be a windfall for app developers
Apple has been ordered by a federal court to allow developers to steer their customers off their iPhone apps to pay for their goods or services, which Apple had banned
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SpaceX launches a crew of astronauts like no other on an adventure to orbit
The mission, known as Inspiration4, is the first orbital trip where not one of the people aboard is a professional astronaut and where government is, by and large, a bystander and observer