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Russia expelled two U.S. diplomats it claims were CIA agents be under diplomatic cover-up, the latest Cold War-esque tit-for-tat to follow a showdown several weeks ago between a U.S. Embassy employee and a Russian policeman.
Vladimir Putins shadow hung over just about all the discussions at the wrap-up of a NATO summit in Warsaw, as French President Francois Hollande weighed in on the U.S. election and U.S. President Barack Obama devoted his thoughts on the U.K. election to leave the European Union.
The pounds plunge after the Brexit vote cost tennis superstar Serena Williams $380,000. And that was just from what she otherwise would have banked from her Wimbledon singles win, before she also won the ladies doubles with sister Venus.
While Andrea Leadsom didnt precisely be used to help campaign for U.K. prime minister by implying that motherhood made her more qualified than the childless Theresa May — a claim Leadsom says the Times of London all but fabricated — the real issue is that Tory party members dont know her, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said.
Health insurance giant Aetna is talking with WellCare and Centene about asset sales, as part of an effort to satisfy U.S. antitrust concerns about its proposed merger with Humana.
Telefonica, struggling to sell assets and preserve its credit rating next following the Brexit vote, turned to a rare weekend stock sale, offering much of its stake in China Unicom of Hong Kong to raise as much as $ 367 million.
Obama brought gun control into the discussion of the Dallas police-officer shootings and deaths of black humen at the hands of police that preceded them. If you care about the safety of our police officer, then you cant set aside the gun issue and feign thats irrelevant, Obama said at a closing NATO press conference.
Vanquished U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders lost his effort to get the official Democratic platform, which already includes many of his anti-Wall Street stances, to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. His surrogates did get a $15 an hour minimum wage written into the document.
Japans upper house election is under way, with Prime Minister Abe seeking sufficient support to back his economic policies and possibly revise pacifist language in the constitution.
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