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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has remained in power for 20 years by repeatedly surmounting political crises: mass protests, corruption allegations, an attempted military coup and a huge influx of refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war.
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How Turkiye’s president maintains popularity despite economic turmoil

Swiss watchmaker Swatch said Tuesday that Malaysian authorities raided its stores and confiscated 164 watches from its Pride Collection.
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Malaysia raids Swatch stores, seizes colourful watches linked to gay pride

Wall Street is edging lower Tuesday as the U.S. government creeps closer to the edge of a potentially disastrous default on its debt.
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Stock market today: Wall Street edges lower as debt worries hang

Actor Jeremy Renner’s hopes to expand a measure for the film industry to northern Nevada were effectively dashed Monday when the bill’s sponsor said it’s too late to entertain in the current legislative session.
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Actor Jeremy Renner wants tax credits for film projects in northern Nevada but he may have to wait

Chinese petroleum giant Sinopec signed an agreement with Sri Lanka on Monday to enter the South Asian island country’s retail fuel market as it struggles to resolve a worsening energy crisis amid an unprecedented economic upheaval.
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China’s Sinopec signs agreement to enter retail fuel market in crisis-hit Sri Lanka

The European Union slapped Meta with a record US$1.3 billion privacy fine Monday and ordered it to stop transferring users’ personal information across the Atlantic by October, the latest salvo in a decadelong case sparked by U.S. cybersnooping fears.
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Meta fined record US.3 billion and ordered to stop sending European user data to U.S.

Workers have yet to return to big city offices in their pre-pandemic numbers, prompting questions about how to revitalize downtown cores as nine-to-fivers spend more of their days at home and companies forge new structures around hybrid work.
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Mixed uses and office conversions: A possible future for urban cores?

The risk of consumers being struck with burning pieces of waffle has prompted Health Canada to issue a recall for a specific waffle maker after several users were burned in the U.S.
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Waffle maker recalled in U.S., Canada, after reports of burn injuries

Stepping up a feud with Washington over technology and security, China’s government on Sunday told users of computer equipment deemed sensitive to stop buying products from the biggest U.S. memory chipmaker, Micron Technology Inc.
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China tells tech manufacturers to stop using Micron chips, stepping up feud with United States

Estonia and Latvia plan jointly to acquire German air defence systems for the protection of the two NATO nations’ airspace in what would be the biggest defence co-operation deal between the Baltic neighbours that border Russia, the Estonian and Latvian defence ministries said Sunday.
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Estonia, Latvia plan joint purchase of German medium-range IRIS-T air defence systems