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Meituan Dianping, China’s largest provider of on-demand online services, is buying bike-sharing firm Mobike for $2.7 billion, in a deal that will intensify the rivalry of their common backer Tencent Holdings with Alibaba Group. Meituan announced...

Hungarian authorities on Wednesday arrested a German suspected of selling arms via an anti-immigrant website called “Migrants’ Fright”, the Berlin public prosecutor said on Wednesday. The 34-year-old man ran the website from Hungary to serve German...

Ireland will hold a referendum on May 25 on whether or not to liberalize its abortion law, the first opportunity in 35 years to overhaul one of the world’s strictest regimes that has long divided the...

U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said his committee will investigate China’s efforts to gain military and economic power in Africa. The California Republican told “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo” that China’s investment in...

Ethiopa’s Netsanet Gudeta broke Kenya’s dominance in the World Half Marathon Championships by smashing the women’s only race world record in Valencia, Spain on Saturday. Kenyan women had swept the medals at the previous two championships...

After raising the alarm Friday about the fight for survival of many animal and plant species, which they lay at the door of mankind, scientists stressed we can still redeem ourselves. And it doesn’t have to...

A team of Microsoft researchers said Wednesday that they believe they have created the first machine translation system that can translate sentences of news articles from Chinese to English with the same quality and accuracy as...

A group of South Korea’s K-pop singers will visit Pyongyang from March 31, the South said on Tuesday, a reciprocal visit after North Korea sent performers to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. The South Koreans, numbering about...

Norwegian telecoms firm Telenor has agreed to sell its businesses in central and eastern Europe to Czech billionaire Petr Kellner’s investment firm PPF Group for 2.8 billion euros ($3.4 billion) “The transaction includes Telenor’s wholly owned...

The massive fire broke out last Sunday. The death toll in last Sunday’s forest fire in the southern state of Tamil Nadu has risen to 17, with three more critically injured trekkers succumbing to their burn...