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© Reuters. Asian Games – Hangzhou 2022 – Closing Ceremony – Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium, Hangzhou, China – October 8, 2023 China’s Premier Li Qiang attends the closing ceremony REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI, China (Reuters) – China will further expand market access and imports, promote opening up and market opportunities and remove barriers to foreign investment in manufacturing, Chinese Premier Li Qiang said on Sunday. Addressing the opening ceremony of the annual China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai, Li said China’s imports of goods and services were expected to reach a cumulative $17 trillion over…

The Americans say Israel’s forceful response to the attack by Hamas on Oct. 7, in which more than 1,400 people were killed and more than 240 were taken hostage, reflects the importance that it places on re-establishing deterrence against attacks from adversaries in the region. The Israeli military’s aura of power was shaken by the Oct. 7 attack, the officials say.The unfolding humanitarian crisis in Hamas-controlled Gaza, where the health ministry says more than 9,400 people have been killed, has provoked outrage in the region, in the United States and around the world, leading the Biden administration to be more…

Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in DC on Saturday for a pro-Palestinian demonstration.Organizers said hundreds of buses brought people from across the country to the nation’s capital.Insider spoke to people from as far as Georgia and Illinois who made the journey to the protest. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app Aali had never been to a protest before he came to the pro-Palestine march in Washington, DC, on Saturday.”This is good,” Aali said at the demonstration. “If you can do something,…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Japanese business & finance myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.The jumbo scallops from the northern Japanese fishing town of Betsukai, on the island of Hokkaido, have a reputation for being among the most delicious on the planet, a cherished ingredient on a classic sushi plate.But for the past month, the Japanese government has exhorted the public to consume at least five of the delicacies daily to help draw down stocks that have piled up after Beijing banned imports of the bivalves in August.Last week, the US military bases in…

© Reuters. (Reuters) – Uruguay’s interior minister and two other members of the government resigned on Saturday over a case that has already prompted the foreign minister to quit, involving a passport issued to an internationally wanted drug-trafficking suspect. Interior Minister Luis Alberto Heber, a cabinet undersecretary and a chief adviser to President Luis Lacalle Pou will no longer be in the coalition government from Monday, the president announced on Saturday evening. Uruguay’s presidency did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Heber’s resignation. The investigation is examining how Sebastian Marset, the alleged drug trafficker, received a Uruguayan…

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel called for Rep. Rashida Tlaib to “retract” a “cruel and hateful” social media post after the representative attempted to justify the pro-Palestinian chant, “From the river to the sea.”Nessel, a fellow Democrat, said that she previously defended Tlaib “countless times” because she believed that the representative’s “heart was in the right place.””@RashidaTlaib, I have supported and defended you countless times, even when you have said the indefensible, because I believed you to be a good person whose heart was in the right place,” Nessel wrote in an X post.The Attorney General called out Tlaib for…

What’s going on?getty In this October 20th Forbes column, I claimed that Social Security’s website was projecting lower benefits for worker than it had just a few months back. This was confirmed today in an email that Social Security sent to recent visitors. One of my company’s Maximize My Social Security software users sent me the notice below, which he received today from Social Security. The notice admits it’s been providing mistaken benefit estimates. This is highly troubling on several grounds. The mistake was massive. Workers were, in the two cases I discussed, being told their future benefits were up…

Barack Obama offered a complex analysis of the conflict between Israel and Gaza, telling thousands of former aides that they were all “complicit to some degree” in the current bloodshed.“I look at this, and I think back, ‘What could I have done during my presidency to move this forward, as hard as I tried?’” he said in an interview conducted by his former staffers for their podcast, Pod Save America. “But there’s a part of me that’s still saying, ‘Well, was there something else I could have done?’”Mr. Obama entered the White House convinced he could be the president who…

Elon Musk has long promised to rid X, formerly Twitter, of inactive accounts and dormant handles. New reports indicate the site is making good on that promise by creating a username marketplace. Per Forbes, X staff have messaged buyers soliciting up to $50,000 to purchase specific handles. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app X is preparing to roll out a username marketplace — and is seeking buyers willing to pay up to $50,000 to gain control of their perfect handle, according to…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The newspaper’s banner logo is seen during the grand opening of the Washington Post newsroom in Washington January 28, 2016. REUTERS/Gary Cameron/File Photo By Helen Coster (Reuters) -William Lewis, the former Dow Jones chief executive and publisher of The Wall Street Journal has been named chief executive and publisher of The Washington Post, the Post said on Saturday. The Washington Post said that it is projected to end the year taking a $100 million loss. The publisher added that executives are offering buyouts across the company in an effort to reduce its head count by about…