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

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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: 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: Walmartsfirstquarterresultsweresurprisinglygood,rewardingtheworldslargestretailerforitseffortstomodernizestoresandraiseefficiency. SalesinitsAmericanstoreswereup1%,theseventhsuccessivequarterlyrise.Profitsrosetoo. Thecompanysaidthenex

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本期内容: Donald Trump lavished praise on Mitt Romney, seeming to raise the former presidential candidate's chances of becoming secretary of state in the new Republican administration. Interrupting a stream of tweeted criticism of Saturday Nigh

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本期内容: AtthestartofChineseNewYear,acrowdedmarketdistrictinHongKongeruptedwhenpolicetriedtoshutdownpopularfoodhawkers.Bottleswerethrown;morethan90peoplewerereportedlyinjured,includingpoliceofficers;warningshotswerefired;and61werearrested.Thed

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本期内容: The White House said that it would ask Congress for $1.8 billion to combat Zika, to be spent on vaccine research, mosquito control and other efforts. In America, around 50 people recently returned from affected regions have been diagn

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本期内容: Asahi, Japans largest brewer, best known for its Super Dry lager, said it was in exclusive talks about buying SABMillers Grolsch, Meantime and Peroni brands for 2.6 billion. SABMiller, the worlds second-biggest brewer, is merging with

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本期内容: Apple said it would challenge a judges order to help the FBI unlock an iPhone belonging to Syed Rizwan Farook, who with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, shot dead 14 people in San Bernardino, California, in December. Tim Cook, Apples boss, s

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本期内容: Barack Obama resubmitted to Congress his long-standing plan to close Guantnamo Bay, calling the prison a stain on America, which drained military resources, stoked terrorism and did not make the country safer. Republican lawmakers rei

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本期内容: Two Chinese state-owned companies are joining forces to create a giant steelmaker, second only in size to Luxembourgs Arcelor Mittal. Under the terms of the deal, which is part of a government push to take capacity out of the fragment

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本期内容: In the vice-presidential debate, Hillary Clintons running-mate, Tim Kaine, and Donald Trumps sidekick, Mike Pence, represented the mainstream views of their parties while avoiding the personal attacks that blight the Clinton-Trump con

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本期内容: Tesla said one of its cars had been involved in a crash in Beijing while in Autopilot mode, the first known incident of its kind in China. The cars owner, who was uninjured, said sales staff had overstated the extent to which the car

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本期内容: Uber, a ride-hailing service, and Volvo, * carmaker owned by Geely of China, announced a non-exclusive alliance to develop self-driving cars. Uber plans to deploy around 100 autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh in the coming months. Ford

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本期内容: Starwood Hotels Resorts Worldwide accepted an improved takeover offer, worth $13.6 billion in cash and shares, from Marriott, reviving a deal to create the worlds largest hotel group. Last week Starwood, owner of St Regis, Westin and

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本期内容: On a visit to London, Barack Obama decried Brexit, sayingwith the candor of a friendthat European Union membership magnified Britains global influence. The leave camp reacted furiously: Boris Johnson said that Americans would never to

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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: AleakedphonecallbetweenIMFandEuropeanofficialsdealingwithGreecehighlighteddivisionsbetweenthecountrysinternationalcreditorsandinfuriatedthegovernmentinAthens.Accordingtothetranscript,obtainedbyWikiLeaks,IMFofficialssaidtheFundmightpul

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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: 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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