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Sen. John Kennedy is reintroducing the Holding Foreign Insiders Accountable Act to ensure that all executives, regardless of where they live, must immediately disclose their trades, giving ...

Olivia and IIona Maher, two sisters from America, were stunned by the differences between a Chinese takeaway in the UK and the US after unboxing their dishes.

US TikTokers Olivia and Ilona Maher decided to try a UK Chinese takeaway for the first time - and they were left shocked by the differences between British and American versions ...

A broad trough has dragged in warm, moist air and offers perfect ingredients for heavy rainfall and even supercells
Northern parts of Australia have been under a flood warning this weekend, with further flooding set to bring havoc to south-eastern parts of the Northern Territory and western Queensland early this week. A broad trough – an area of locally lower pressure – has been moving across northern Australia, dragging in warm, moist air from the Gulf of Carpentaria and providing the perfect ingredients for the formation of severe thunderstorms, and even .
More than 70mm (2.75in) of rain fell in an hour under the slow-moving storms over the weekend in what is usually an arid, low rainfall zone with a desert/grassland climate classification. Some parts of the region have sparse observation data, but some local stations have been able to record more than 100mm within 24 hours, with 132mm of rain at Marion Downs, Queensland.

China reassured executives from American and European firms, including Apple, Qualcomm, Mastercard, Pfizer and AstraZeneca, that the world's second-largest economy is open for business amid a looming ...

China reassured executives from American and European firms, including Apple, Qualcomm, Mastercard, Pfizer and AstraZeneca, that the world's second-largest economy is open for business amid a looming tariffs threat.

Lai Ching-te, the president of Taiwan, may be betting that China’s appetite for retaliation will be limited by Beijing’s interest in containing tensions with the Trump administration.

A broad cross-section of American business is dialing up its opposition to the Trump administration’s plan to impose steep fees on Chinese ships calling at American ports.

A broad cross-section of American business is dialing up its opposition to the Trump administration’s plan to impose steep fees on Chinese ships calling at American ports.

Measures blocking companies involved in modern slavery from receiving public money could be overturned
Measures that would have blocked companies found to have used forced labour in any part of the state-owned Great British Energy supply chain from receiving public money could be overturned this week.
Labour MPs are being whipped on Tuesday to throw out the clause that was inserted into the energy bill in the House of Lords in February.

BYD, a Chinese carmaker once dismissed by Tesla’s CEO, claims to have outpaced western rivals with charging tech that’s as fast as filling petrol engines
Tesla’s boss, Elon Musk, once thought the idea that China’s BYD could compete with his company was . In 2011, he smugly the Chinese carmaker as unimpressive, its products unattractive and its technology “not very strong”. He’s not laughing now – and not just because Tesla’s stock has plummeted amid a by motorists protesting against his embrace of politics. More pressingly, Mr Musk, like other western carmakers, has been by BYD.
Last week, the Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer new charging technology that, it says, is capable of delivering 400km (249 miles) of driving range in just five minutes – as quick as filling up a petrol car. The system, released next month, will be fitted in two EVs, priced from 270,000 yuan (£29,000) – comparable to Tesla’s most affordable model in China. Yet BYD claims to Tesla’s kilometres-per-minute charging rate. Technological supremacy at a competitive price may help to explain why now sells seven times as many cars in China as .

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