本期内容: SamsungElectronicsagreedtobuyHarmanInternationalIndustries,anAmericanautomotive-technologycompany,for$8bn.Thedealisthelatestinastringofmovesbybigtechnologyfirmstobenefitfromtheriseoftheconnectedcar.Samsungisparticularlykeentogainastro

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本期内容: SamsungElectronicsagreedtobuyHarmanInternationalIndustries,anAmericanautomotive-technologycompany,for$8bn.Thedealisthelatestinastringofmovesbybigtechnologyfirmstobenefitfromtheriseoftheconnectedcar.Samsungisparticularlykeentogainastro

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本期内容: India's government made a surprise decision to withdraw current 500-and I, 000-rupee banknotes from circulation in an effort to clamp down on black marketeers and corruption. Banks were closed to allow them to stock up on lower-denomi

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本期内容: Donald Trump won America's presidential election, wrongfooting the predictions of pundits and pollsters and winning states that had voted Democrat for decades but where voters were receptive to his populist pledges. The shock result c

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本期内容: Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba announced a sweeping restructuring of its media and entertainment assets, which include Youku Tudou, UCWeB and Alibaba Pictures Group as well as sports, games and music firms. The overhaul includes the

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本期内容: The FBI obtained a new warrant related to the closed investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail server. Democrats criticized the agency's director for disclosing to Congress that it is examining new evidence. Mrs Clint

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本期内容: Inadecisionvehementlyopposedbysomeministers,BritainsConservativegovernmentapprovedacontroversialexpansionofHeathrowairportthatwilladdathirdrunwayatacostof18bn.TheplanforHeathrow,westofLondon,beatarivalproposaltobuildasecondrunwayatGat

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本期内容: French authorities began clearing the Jungle, a migrants camp in Calais, but on the first day were only able to bus 1,500-2,000 of the more than 7,000 residents to accommodation centers elsewhere in France. A small minority of those w

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本期内容: ThousandsofSouthKoreanstooktothestreetsdemandingtheresignationofthecountry'spresident,ParkGeun-hye.Theyaccuseherofallowingalongtimefriendandadviser,ChoiSoon-sil,tousetheircloserelationshiptoexertimproperinfluenceoverstateaffairsandtob

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本期内容: Egyptian archaeologists have discovered 17 mummies in desert catacombs in Minya province, the antiquities ministry announced Saturday. Archaeologists found the non-royal mummies in a series of corridors after following the trail of bu

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本期内容: Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination at the partys convention in Cleveland, amid plaudits from family members and raucous attacks on his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. After a mock trial conducted by Chris Christie, the

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本期内容: After a months-long bidding process, Yahoo, a struggling internet company, announced Verizon would buy its core business, for $4.8 billion. Last year the telecoms giant paid $4.4 billion for AOL, another former internet darling. The m

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本期内容: Russias Olympic athletes will not all be banned from competing in Rio de Janeiro, the International Olympic Committee announced. Instead, decisions over bans will be left to individual sports federations; the IAAF, the athletics feder

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本期内容: Facebooks quarterly results roundly beat expectations. Overall revenues were up 59% year-on-year, to $6.4 billion, helped by spiking sales of video advertisements and ads on Instagram, the social-media giants picture-sharing platform.

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本期内容: A senior HSBC banker was arrested at an airport in New York and charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Prosecutors say Mark Johnson, the global head of foreign-exchange cash trading, and Stuart Scott, a colleague, front ran a $

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本期内容: The purge of state institutions in Turkey intensified as the authorities sacked more than 15,000 education workers, including university professors and deans. The teaching licenses of 21,000 private-school staff were revoked. At least

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本期内容: Emperor Akihito plans to abdicate in favour of Crown Prince Naruhito, Japanese media reported. He would be the first monarch to step down from the Chrysanthemum Throne in 200 years. The timing was not specified. Akihito, who has reign

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本期内容: SharesinNintendorosebynearlyaquarterfollowingthesuccessoftheJapanesecompanysnewPokmonGogame,inwhichusershuntcharactersinreal-worldlocationsusingsmartphones,helpedbyin-gamepurchases.ItimmediatelyheadedtheAmericangamingcharts.Nintendosp

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本期内容: Continuing a crackdown following last months failed coup, Turkeys president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, decreed that the government could issue direct orders to military commanders, bypassing the chief of the general staff. Separately, Ger

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本期内容: Uber reached a deal to sell its operations in China to Didi Chuxing, its arch-rival there, an acknowledgment that its costly campaign to conquer the ride-sharing market in China is over. Uber is taking a 17.7% stake in Didi as a conso

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