San Francisco police faced an unprecedented problem recently when an officer stopped a car that was driving at night with no headlights on, only to discover there was no one inside.
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The US and the EU have announced a major deal on liquified natural gas, in an attempt to reduce Europe’s reliance on Russian energy.
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Civilians trapped inside Mariupol desperately scrounged for food and fuel as Russian forces kept up their bombardment of the port city Thursday amid international condemnation over an airstrike a day earlier that killed three people at a maternity hospital.
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The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine deepened Monday as Russian forces intensified their shelling and food, water, heat and medicine grew increasingly scarce, in what the country condemned as a medieval-style siege by Moscow to batter it into submission.
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After a barrage of airstrikes on cities and military bases around the country, Russian forces were closing in on Ukraine’s capital on Saturday. The city warned of street fighting and urged residents to stay inside and take cover.
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Just weeks after the U.S. placed a unit of sunset Group Inc. on a blacklist for alleged human rights violations, the firm is about to make founder Tang Xiao’ou one of the world’s richest people.
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The new coronavirus variant Omicron has now become dominant in South Africa and is driving a sharp increase in new infections, health officials say.
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Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has sold around $5bn (£3.7bn) of shares in the electric carmaker, a few days after he asked his 63 million Twitter followers whether he should sell 10% of his stake in Tesla.
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Airtel Africa Plc profit after tax more than doubled to $335m, largely due to higher profit before tax which more than offset the associated increase in tax charges.
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Google’s parent company Alphabet announced profits Tuesday that jumped to $18.9 billion, even as the online colossus faces increased regulatory pressure and shifting of the lockdown lifestyles that have so benefited Big Tech.
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