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19 Dec, 2025
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Illinois secures US$1.5 billion to elevate bus and trains
Illinois’ public transit systems got a US$1.5-billion annual infusion on Friday as Governor JB Pritzker signed a law overhauling Chicago’s web of buses and trains, sparing it from devastating service…
19 Dec, 2025
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Quarterly ‘tankan’ survey shows slight improvement as Bank of Japan weighs a rate hike
A quarterly survey of major Japanese manufacturers released Monday shows business sentiment improving to its best level in four years, even after President Trump raised tariffs on goods from the…
19 Dec, 2025
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Author who sold 45m ‘Shopaholic’ novels dies
Writer Sophie Kinsella, whose effervescent rom com Confessions of a Shopaholic sparked a million-selling series, died on December 10, her family said. She was 55 and had been diagnosed with brain…
19 Dec, 2025
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Japan exports climbed in November
Japan’s exports climbed 6.0 per cent in November from a year earlier, with shipments to the United States rising for the first time since March as uncertainties over tariffs abated following a trade…
19 Dec, 2025
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How a Trump Media US$1 billion deal with crypto firm exposes potential conflict of interest
Crypto.com was under siege. For more than a year, the firm had been investigated by President Joe Biden’s Democratic administration, part of an aggressive push to regulate the largely unregulated…
19 Dec, 2025
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Reddit challenges Australia’s world-first law banning children under 16 from social media
Global online forum Reddit on Friday filed a court challenge to Australia’s world first law that bans Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world’s most popular social media…
19 Dec, 2025
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Epstein accuser’s memoir sells 1m copies worldwide
A posthumous memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s best known accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, has sold one-million copies worldwide two months after its release. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced…
18 Dec, 2025
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Trump’s son-in-law pulls out of Paramount’s hostile bid for Warner Bros Discovery
A private equity firm owned by President Donald Trump’s son in law, Jared Kushner, is no longer backing Paramount’s hostile acquisition bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, the firm confirmed on Tuesday.…