本期内容: A judge agreed to postpone a hearing in which the FBI was seeking to force Apple to help unlock an iPhone used by a dead terrorist. The American law-enforcement agency said an (unnamed) outside party had provided another way of extrac

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本期内容: The governor of Chinas central bank said that Chinese companies debts were too high, relative to GDP. Zhou Xiaochuan said high leverage made firms prone to macroeconomic risk. He told a conference of officials and international busine

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本期内容: A Russian court handed down a 22-year sentence to Nadia Savchenko, a Ukrainian military pilot accused of directing artillery fire which killed two Russian journalists. Asked if she understood the sentence, she stood on a bench and san

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本期内容: For the first time a computer beat a world champion at the Asian board game of Go. Googles DeepMind AlphaGo defeated Lee Se-dol of South Korea in the first two encounters of a best-of-five series. The third game is due to take place t

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本期内容: Facebook unveiled an upgraded Like button for responding to posts on its social network, adding options for love, haha ,yay, wow, sad and angry, each with its own icon. This will give the company more data with which to personalise it

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本期内容: ReportssaidthatAntFinancial,Alibabasfinancial-servicesaffiliate,wasclosetobuyingastakeinCaixin,arespectedChinesebusinessmagazine.Adealwouldbethee-commercegiantssecondmediainvestmentinshortorder:inDecemberAlibababoughttheSouthChinaMorn

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本期内容: Honeywell, an American engineering conglomerate, dropped its $90 billion takeover bid for United Technologies, which makes Pratt Whitney jet engines, Otis lifts, air-conditioning systems and more. Honeywell grumbled about UTCs unwilli

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本期内容: Porsche joined Tag Heuer and Nike in suspending sponsorship of Maria Sharapova, after the Russian tennis star revealed that she had failed a drugs test. The International Tennis Federation said it would suspend her from March 12th, pe

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本期内容: The Volkswagen emissions-test scandal smouldered on. German prosecutors expanded the number of employees under investigation to 17, though they have yet to find firm evidence that senior executives knew about the rigged software in di

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本期内容: Bernie Sanders provided the biggest surprise so far in Americas presidential primaries, narrowly beating Hillary Clinton in Michigans Democratic contest on Tuesday. Mrs Clinton, who trounced Mr Sanders in Mississippi the same day, rem

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本期内容: Ryanair is entering the corporate-jet market. The Irish airline has customised a Boeing 737-700; the 60-seat aircraft will be available for hire by the hour. In recent years the budget carrier has softened its no-frills image: in 2014

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本期内容: Myanmars first freely chosen parliament in more than 50 years elected the countrys new president. Htin Kyaw is a writer, computer scientist and long-time confidante of Aung San Suu Kyi, the countrys famed democracy activist, who has p

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本期内容: Investors led by Chinas Anbang Insurance offered $12.8 billion in cash for Starwood Hotels Resorts Worldwide, owner of brands including Sheraton, Westin and W. The bid threatens to upset Marriotts $11 billion, cash-and-shares takeover

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本期内容: Most of the passengers on an EgyptAir plane that was hijacked and forced to land at Larnaca airport in Cyprus were released on Tuesday, the airline and Egyptian officials said, after the jet was diverted during its flight to Cairo fro

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本期内容: Despite scathing reviews, the new Warner Bros superhero film, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, took $424m in its opening five days. Globally, the opening was the fourth-biggest ever; its $170m box-office take in America set a recor

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本期内容: AmericasSamp;P500stockmarketindexendedthefirstquarterslightlyhigherthanitwasattheturnoftheyearanoutcomethatseemedunlikelyafteraturbulentstartto2016.SharepriceswerehelpedoverthelinebydoveishremarksfromJanetYellen,headoftheFederalReserv

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本期内容: AleakedphonecallbetweenIMFandEuropeanofficialsdealingwithGreecehighlighteddivisionsbetweenthecountrysinternationalcreditorsandinfuriatedthegovernmentinAthens.Accordingtothetranscript,obtainedbyWikiLeaks,IMFofficialssaidtheFundmightpul

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本期内容: In an unusual avowal of its offensive digital capability, Americas secretary of defence, Ashton Carter, said the Pentagons Cyber Command was attacking Islamic State: really its first wartime assignment. Lawmakers and military chiefs a

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本期内容: The Chinese telecom firm ZTE said the American governments probe into its trade practices may result in criminal and civil liabilities. American authorities imposed trade curbs as they investigated alleged violations of trade sanction

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本期内容: Shares in Allergan, a pharmaceutical firm with headquarters in Dublin, fell by 15% in response to suspicion that tax-avoidance legislation would scupper its planned $160 billion merger with Pfizer, an American drugmaker. The deal woul

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