The use of digital currencies helps keep the economy operating amid the US sanctions

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China kicked off its largest-ever military parade on Wednesday, a show of its growing firepower and geopolitical clout as President Xi Jinping seeks to cast Beijing as the custodian of a post-US international order.

Tariffs on cars were a big part of the negotiations that led to a trade deal between the US and the European Union.

Daughter of former Nazi official and her husband to be questioned after raid on home failed to find masterpiece

A federal court in Argentina has ordered house arrest for the daughter of a former Nazi official and her husband after a raid failed to locate a painting stolen from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam.

Authorities raided a home in the coastal city of Mar del Plata last week after a Dutch newspaper identified a painting seen in a real estate photo as an Italian masterpiece registered on a database of lost wartime art.

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The U.S. Congress returns on Tuesday with less than a month left to perform one of its core functions - keeping federal agencies funded and averting a partial government shutdown.

Momchilovtsi hosts an unique festival annually celebrating its local yoghurt

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Vladimir Putin hailed "unprecedentedly high relations" with China and thanked his "dear friend" Xi for the warm welcome during talks at Beijing's Great Hall of the People, while Kim Jong Un's armoured special train snaked towards the Chinese capital.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday the Federal Reserve is and should be independent but said it had "made a lot of mistakes" and defended President Trump's right to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook over allegations of mortgage fraud.

The World Liberty tokens were sold to investors after the Trump family and its business partners last year launched the venture, a decentralized finance platform that has also issued a stablecoin.

Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange was down 0.2% at $9,886 a metric ton after touching its highest since July 24 at $9,947.

Announcement comes a day after a US federal judge halted the deportation of 10 unaccompanied Guatemalan minors

Guatemala is ready and willing to receive about 150 unaccompanied children of all ages each week from the United States, the country’s president has said, a day after a US federal judge halted the deportation of 10 Guatemalan children.

Those children had already boarded a plane when a court responded to an emergency appeal on Sunday. They were later returned to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.

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Demand for mezcal has upped production from 1 million litres in 2012 to 14 million in 2022

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Mexican people are facing mass layoffs, which are being blamed on Trump’s tariffs

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The GPS system of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's airplane was jammed while en route on Sunday to Bulgaria, where it landed safely, an EU spokesperson said on Monday.

 A man was arrested on Monday after ramming his car into the gates of the Russian consulate in Sydney, Australian police said.

The quake killed at least 622 people in the eastern provinces of Kunar and Nangarhar, with more than 1,500 injured and numerous houses destroyed.

A US federal judge on Sunday halted the Trump administration from deporting a group of migrant Guatemalan children already boarded onto planes and potentially hundreds more in government shelters after their lawyers made a pre-dawn emergency appeal.

Ukraine’s president says ‘necessary investigative actions ongoing’ after killing of former parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy

A suspect has been arrested over the murder of the former Ukrainian parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.

“The suspect has given an initial testimony,” Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s president, said on the Telegram messaging app. “Urgent investigative actions are currently under way to establish all the circumstances of this murder.”

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• Juventus win 1-0 against Genoa after Vlahovic header

• VAR drama mars Barcelona’s draw with Rayo Vallecano

Inter were handed a shock 2-1 loss at home to Udinese in Serie A despite taking the lead through Denzel Dumfries as the visitors responded with two goals before the break on Sunday.

Cristian Chivu’s side won their opening game 5-0 at home to Torino but looked well off that form despite opening the scoring in the 17th minute when Dumfries tapped in from a Marcus Thuram pass in the box.

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• Dane cuts nearly two minutes off gap to leader Træen

• Tom Pidcock and João Almeida finish second and third

The twice Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard won stage nine of the Vuelta a España with a solo attack on the climactic climb to Valdezcaray on Sunday, shaving nearly two minutes off the gap to the overall leader Torstein Træen, who is ahead by 37 seconds.

Visma-Lease a Bike’s Vingegaard dominated the 13.2km category one climb at the end of the 195.5km ride from Alfaro to the Valdezcaray ski resort and although Tom Pidcock and João Almeida tried to chase, they finished 24sec off the pace.

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