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As U.S. and Chinese Officials Meet, Businesses Temper Their Hopes

In a meeting in Beijing on Friday, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, traded warm smiles with Bill Gates and praised Mr. Gates as “the first American friend” he had met this year. The encounters in Beijing between Secretary of State Antony…

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Victims in the Manitoba Crash Were 10 Minutes From Their Destination

It was supposed to be a fun escape: a group of elderly people from a sleepy town in Manitoba traveling by bus to a casino where they could play the slot machines and perhaps enjoy the Oasis restaurant’s bison pasta….

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Republicans Attack Blinken for China Trip, Threatening Subpoena

The News Leading congressional Republicans excoriated Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken on Friday for traveling to China this weekend, accusing him of undermining national security by attempting to normalize diplomatic relations with Beijing as they press for a more…

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Finland Shifts Right With Coalition Including an Anti-Immigration Party

Finland’s main conservative party announced a new coalition government on Friday after weeks of negotiations, in a deal that moves the country firmly to the right and follows a pattern of similar political shifts elsewhere in Europe. Petteri Orpo, leader…

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‘It Could Have Been So Much Worse’: Mountain Collapse Narrowly Misses Swiss Village

The Latest After decades of threatening to tear off and plummet down the slope, obliterating the homes below, the mountainside near the village of Brienz, in central Switzerland, finally collapsed. Geologists had predicted in May that the long-feared landslide was…

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