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2019 Audi Q8 50 TDI First Drive: I Can Feel Your Halo
Eva Longoria Welcomes First Child
Trump escalates trade war with China following first round of tariffs
Senate candidate's first campaign ad depicts Trump administration as literal dumpster fire
Protests against Trump administration’s family separation policy as first lady weighs in
Rohingya refugees mark first Eid since Myanmar crackdown
As Muslims around the world celebrated Eid with feasting and gift-giving, Rohingya refugees in squalid Bangladesh camps marked the festival Saturday with a peaceful demonstration demanding justice and dignified repatriation. For the hundreds of thousands of the Muslim minority who have fled neighbouring Myanmar since an army crackdown last August, this is the first Eid-al-Fitr they have spent in the cramped tent cities. Rahim Uddin, a 35-year-old refugee, told AFP that the holiday, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, was different this year.
Former guerrilla Petro fights to become Colombia's first leftist president
By Helen Murphy and Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) – Gustavo Petro, a former insurgent turned rabble-rousing mayor, is fighting to become Colombia’s first leftist president, turning his humble beginnings and revolutionary past into a rallying cry for millions of the nation’s youth and poor. The 58-year-old economist is about 20 points behind right-wing candidate Ivan Duque to replace President Juan Manuel Santos, but his presence in the second round has worried many in the traditionally conservative nation, where the right has kept a vice-like grip on power. Proposals from Petro to change the nation’s economic model by piling taxes on unproductive landowners and abandoning oil and coal for clean energy have spooked investors.
Chinese ride-sharing giant Didi picks Australia for first Western foray
SYDNEY/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Didi Chuxing Technology Co Ltd, the Chinese ride-sharing company that bought the mainland operations of Uber Technologies Inc, will begin offering its service this month in Australia, its first foray in a Western-style country. The scheduled June 25 launch in Australia’s second biggest city Melbourne sets Didi up for a showdown with the U.S. rival it bought out in China in exchange for a stake. Didi started expanding outside Asia in Mexico earlier this year, and has said globalisation is a core strategy.
World Cup 2018: How the 'Oracle' Animals Fared in Their First Predictions
Bodycam Footage From Harrowing First Moments of Police Response to Las Vegas Shooting Is Released
