本期内容: Colombia announced a new peace deal with the FARC, six weeks after the original agreement was rejected in a referendum. The changes include a commitment by the guerrillas to declare and hand over all their assets, which will be used t

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本期内容: Netflix, which streams video, added 370,000 subscribers in America in the third quarter and 3.2 m elsewhere. Both results were far better than it had forecast (although the growth of its American subscriptions has slowed compared with

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本期内容: Britain said it will introduce the worlds first public register of the owners of foreign companies holding property in the country. The move comes in response to growing concern over tax evaders' and money-launderers' use of shell com

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本期内容: Warren Buffett and thousands of Berkshire Hathaway shareholders gathered at the holding companys annual meeting in Nebraska. The Sage of Omaha, no great fan of the technology sector in the past, admitted he had erred in not investing

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本期内容: Sally Bunkham founded her online retail business nearly two years ago after the birth of her second child. To begin with, she says, she didn't mind being labelled a mumpreneur. But as I've gone through my business journey I've realise

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本期内容: Conservationists have warned that the entire species of the critically endangered Javan rhino could be wiped out if a tsunami were to strike again. They once roamed the jungles of South East Asia and India, but today only 67 exist in

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本期内容: Something is happening out there, and astronomers sure wish they knew what it was. For the last several years, they have been teased and baffled by mysterious bursts of radio waves from the distant universe: pops of low-frequency radi

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本期内容: PhilipHammond,Britainschancelloroftheexchequer,gavethegovernmentsfirstdetailedbudgetannouncementsincetheBrexitvoteinJune.HeconfirmedforecastsofreducedGDPgrowthoverthenexttwoyears.Netgovernmentborrowing,whichintheMarchbudgetwasexpected

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本期内容: International investigators are hunting for those behind an unprecedented cyber-attack that affected systems in dozens of countries, as security experts sought to contain the fallout. The assault, which began Friday and was being desc

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本期内容: HarshwordsovershadowedtheloomingBrexittalks.AfterBritainwascriticizedforanunrealisticandill-informedapproach,TheresaMayaccusedEuropeanfiguresofinterferinginthegeneralelectiononJune8th.HerConservativesdidwellinlocalelections,mostlyatth

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本期内容: SpaceX,ElonMusksrocketrycompany,successfullylaunchedaspysatelliteforAmericasDepartmentofDefenseintoorbitfromtheKennedySpaceCentreinFlorida.ItwasthefirstflightSpaceXhadmadeforthemilitary.Thecompanyiskeentoproveitselfareliablelaunchprov

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本期内容: Emmanuel Macron topped the first round of the presidential election in France and will meet Marine Le Pen in a run-off on May 7th. Markets were buoyed by Mr Macrons performance: opinion polls put the former economy minister ahead of h

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本期内容: The World Health Organisation said an experimental malaria vaccine will be tested on more than 750,000 children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi next year. The disease causes more than 400,000 deaths annually. How the vaccine is implemented

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本期内容: China's biggest online-search company, Baidu, said it would make its self-driving car technologies available to others. In a bid to advance autonomous vehiclesand perhaps to become an industry standard in the same way that Googles And

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本期内容: Afteradecisivevictory,EmmanuelMacron,acentristwhopromisestoreformtheeconomy,willassumethepresidencywithinaweek.The39-year-oldhasastrongmandate,afterattracting65.8%supportintherun-offyesterday,morethanmostpollshadprojected,against34.2%

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本期内容: The vice-governor of Chinas central bank warned of financial instability caused by the slowing economy. Chen Yulu was speaking at a financial forum in Hangzhou, according to a report in Shanghai Securities News, an official media outl

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本期内容: BHS,aheavilyindebtedBritishretailchain,wasexpectedtogointoadministrationtoday,risking11,000jobs.Thecompanyspensionschemehasa£571mdeficit,andmayneedtobebailedout.Pensionershavebeentoldtoexpectcuts.Criticssaythatthepreviousmanagements

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本期内容: Ant Financial, an affiliate of Alibaba, a Chinese internet giant, raised $4.5 billion, largely from state-backed investorsthe biggest-ever private-funding round for a tech company. Ant runs Alipay, which handles more than half of Chin

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本期内容: Hillary Clinton nearly clinched the Democratic presidential nomination. Her rival Bernie Sanders started laying off staff. Donald Trump also did well in five east-coast primaries, but needs more big wins, notably in Indiana on Tuesday

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本期内容: Britains opposition Labor Party suspended the ex-mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, for making a convoluted and much-criticised argument about Hitlers Zionism; and Naz Shah MP, for a belatedly unearthed Facebook post saying that Israel

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