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UK election results show Britain votes Brexit: What you need to know
A look at PM Boris Johnson's career so far, and all that transpired in UK politics since the 2016 referendum
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TikTok's biggest hits of the year—and its predictions for 2020
The most viral videos on the app included a science experiment conducted by YouTube star David Dobrik, a man doing surgery on a banana and a swimming pool stunt gone terribly wrong
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Has the United States dodged a recession?
Things look better now than they did in the summer, but there is still cause for vigilance
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Timeline: Greta Thunberg's journey to becoming Time's Person of the Year
The daughter of an actor-opera singer duo, the 16-year-old activist first learned about climate change at age 8
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Five questions that loom over Saudi Aramco's surging stock
The markets took the company's value to nearly $1.9 trillion, substantially larger than Apple at about $1.19 trillion, but Aramco faces a lot of challenges
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This is what racism sounds like in the banking industry
It is no secret that racism has been baked into the American banking system. Banks, including JP Morgan, say they are committed to eradicating this legacy, for both employee bias and racial profiling of customers, but what recently transpired in the Phoenix area suggests this is not true
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Why India's Data Protection Bill should worry you
Lawyers say the bill would move India closer to China, where the internet is tightly overseen by the government
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Worried, scared and paralyzed: Lives caught in Brexit limbo
Brexit has brought a new level of uncertainty for many of the people who go to work each day in Britain, putting lives and livelihoods in the balance. Here are their stories
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What did the US get for $2 trillion in Afghanistan?
Eighteen years of war later, the Taliban are steadily getting stronger. Drawing on estimates from Brown University's Costs of War Project, an assessment of how much the US spent on different aspects of the war and whether that spending achieved its aims
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Rare whiskey collection expected to fetch $10 million at auction
Among the bottles to be sold in two separate auctions in February and April are some from Scottish distilleries that are no longer operating, including the Stromness Distillery, which closed in the 1920s, and Dallas Dhu, which closed in 1983 and now houses a museum
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Gujarat salt industry hit by US-China trade war
China is the largest importer of Indian salt, 80 percent of which comes from Gujarat. As demand for its finished products is falling, so is that of the raw material used, causing the state's salt manufacturers and farmers losses of more than Rs 100 crore