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Chinese yuan slips again as depreciation pressure remains

BEIJING, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) — The Chinese yuan slipped again on Wednesday after ending its 12-day losing streak Tuesday. The central parity rate of the currency weakened 125 basis points to 6.8904 against the U.S. dollar, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading System. Analysts attributed the decline to lingering depreciation pressure caused by rising […]

Mending Russia-U.S. ties not to be “quick and easy”: Kremlin

MOSCOW, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) — Mending the soured relations between Russia and the United States under the new U.S. administration of Donald Trump will not be a “quick and easy” process, the Kremlin said Wednesday. Relations have nearly hit “rock bottom” during the Obama Administration, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. While Moscow expects to […]

Zika babies may develop microcephaly months after birth: study

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (NsNewsWire) — Babies born with congenital Zika virus infection may develop microcephaly, or abnormal smallness of the head, months after birth, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Tuesday. In its latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC described 13 infants in Brazil with congenital Zika virus infection […]

China launches 4th data relay satellite

BEIJING, Nov. 23 (NsNewsWire) — China successfully launched the Tianlian I-04 satellite on Tuesday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The satellite was launched on a Long March-3C carrier rocket at 11:24 p.m. Beijing time, said sources with the center, reports Xinhua. Developed by the China Academy of Space Technology […]

Trump not to pursue probe over Hillary Clinton

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (NsNewsWire) — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s administration will not further probe into his former Democratic rival Hillary Clinton over her private email server use, a top aide to Trump said Tuesday. The new administration will also not open any investigation into foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation when Clinton was secretary of […]

Can China overtake US to lead the world?

Discussions were running high on global governance among Western public opinion on the eve of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders meeting in Lima, Peru. Some Western media outlets hold the US is giving up its global leadership following Donald Trump‘s election as US president on promises to abolish the Trans-Pacific Partnership and withdraw from […]

U.S.-led airstrikes kill 10 civilians in Syria’s al-Raqqah

DAMASCUS, Nov. 22 (NsNewsWire) — At least 10 civilians were killed on Monday by a U.S.-led airstrike on the country’s northern province of al-Raqqah, the de facto capital of the Islamic State (IS) group, state news agency SANA reported. The airstrike targeted a cotton mill in the village of Salhiyeh in the northern countryside of […]

Iraqi forces retakes 6 villages from IS militants around Mosul

MOSUL, Iraq, Nov. 22 (NsNewsWire) — Iraqi security forces on Monday recaptured six villages in southeast and north of the city of Mosul, while special forces continued heavy clashes with the Islamic State (IS) militants to clear the districts freed earlier from the extremist militants in the eastern part of the city, a security source […]

Women know less about financial matters than men on average: study

BERLIN, Nov. 22 (NsNewsWire) — In most countries of the world, women know less about financial matters than men do on average, the findings of a study by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) showed on Monday. “Cultural factors play a key role in addition to income, education and experience,” noted DIW Berlin […]