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Huawei’s profit more than doubles in 2023, sales up 9.6% as cloud and digital businesses grow

HONG KONG -- Chinese telecoms gear company Huawei Technologies has reported its profit more than doubled last year as its cloud and digital...

The EU plans to fast-track some financial aid to Egypt. The usual funding safeguards will not apply

BRUSSELS -- The European Union intends to fast-track some of its aid money to Egypt using an urgent funding procedure that bypasses parliamentary...

5 dead and over 100 hospitalized from recalled Japanese health supplements

TOKYO -- In the week since a line of Japanese health supplements began being recalled, five people have died and more than 100...

Migrant workers who helped build modern China have scant or no pensions, and can't retire

BEIJING -- At 53, Guan Junling is too old to get hired at factories anymore. But for migrant workers like her, not working...

Ex-Gucci designer Alessandro Michele named the new creative head at Valentino

PARIS -- The flamboyant former designer at Gucci, Alessandro Michele, has been named the new creative director at storied Roman luxury house Valentino,...

Oxford coach blasts Thames pollution as a national disgrace ahead of Boat Race with Cambridge

LONDON -- The coach of Oxford’s crew taking part in the Boat Race described the pollution in London’s River Thames as a “national...