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Toyota warns of 21% profit drop amid Trump tariffs, weak dollar
Toyota sees 21% full-year profit decline as tariffs take a bite

TOKYO, Japan: Toyota Motor Corp is bracing for a 21 percent decline in full-year profit, as the impact of President Donald Trump's...

South African president to meet Trump over Afrikaner refugee claims
South African president to meet Trump over Afrikaner refugee claims

Forty-nine members of South Africas white minority recently emigrated to the US amid allegations of persecution at home President...

InPics | Deepening China-Latin America ties reflected in daily life
InPics | Deepening China-Latin America ties reflected in daily life

People walk past a Chinese supermarket in Chinatown in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 10, 2025. (Xinhua/Meng Dingbo) MEXICO CITY, May...

LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES-CHINA-CHINESE ELEMENTS
LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES-CHINA-CHINESE ELEMENTS

(250513) -- MEXICO CITY, May 13, 2025 (Xinhua) -- People visit the pavilion of China at the 41st Expocomer in Panama City, the capital...

Not talking to Putin illogical Trump envoy
Not talking to Putin illogical  Trump envoy

Steve Witkoff has called efforts to isolate the Russian president counterproductive for resolving the Ukraine conflict Isolating...

India seeks to levy duties on US steel and aluminum
India seeks to levy duties on US steel and aluminum

New Delhi has approached the WTO to impose retaliatory duties on Washington, in response to tariffs introduced by President Donald...

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Bristol Myers, Sanofi to pay $700 million in Hawaii Plavix lawsuit
Drug firms to pay Hawaii $700 million to settle blood thinner lawsuit

HONOLULU, Hawaii: Pharmaceutical giants Bristol Myers Squibb and Sanofi have agreed to pay $700 million to Hawaii to settle a lawsuit...

FDA to roll out AI across all centers by June 30
US FDA centers to deploy AI internally, following experimental run

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said this week it will start using artificial intelligence (AI) in all...

Appeals court reinstates Oceanografia fraud case against Citigroup
Citigroup faces revived fraud lawsuit over Mexican oil firm

NEW YORK CITY, New York: Citigroup must defend itself against a revived lawsuit accusing the bank of facilitating and concealing a...

Food authority forecasts 500,000 in Gaza will die of starvation
Hundreds of thousands of Gazans being starved to death as world watches

Gaza Faces Imminent Famine as Aid Blockade Enters 70th Day, UN Warns The entire population of Gaza is now at critical risk of famine,...

House passes bill to rename Gulf of Mexico as ‘Gulf of America’
US House passes bill on Trump's Gulf of America

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America,...

Bill to legalize Recreational marijuana passed in Pennsylvania house
Pennsylvania House advances bill legalizing recreational marijuana

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania: People in Pennsylvania who are 21 or older could soon be allowed to legally buy and use marijuana. The state...