Algeria judges refuse to oversee vote if Bouteflika participates: statement

More than 1,000 Algerian judges said they would refuse to oversee the country's election next month if President Abdelaziz Bouteflika contests it, in one of the biggest blows to the ailing leader since protests started more than two weeks ago.

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Willis is broker on Ethiopian Airlines-spokeswoman

Willis Towers Watson is the insurance broker for Ethiopian Airlines and Chubb is the lead underwriter, a Willis Towers Watson spokeswoman said on Monday.

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Smart speakers and baking into inflation basket

Q: "Alexa - what is now being used to help calculate the cost of living in the UK?" A: "I am"

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Superdry tells co-founder Julian Dunkerton he's not welcome back

Fashion chain says his designs flopped and he should stop trying to return to the firm he founded.

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No deal Brexit and how businesses are planning for it

In a big week for Brexit small business owners share how they're preparing for the possibility of no deal.

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Fukushima disaster: Touring a destroyed school

A Japanese high school hit by the 2011 tsunami has re-opened to visitors as a memorial to the disaster.

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Former Taliban leader lived under U.S. nose, new book says

A biography of one-eyed former Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar says he lived near a U.S. base in Afghanistan for years, not in Pakistan as U.S. officials have said, exposing Western failure to track him down, but a spokesman for the Afghan president described the claim as "delusional".

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UK PM May likely to change Tuesday's Brexit vote: Sun political editor

British Prime Minister Theresa May is likely to change the status of Tuesday's parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal, The Sun's political editor, Tom Newton Dunn, said.

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Chinese carriers, Ethiopian Airlines halt use of Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft after crash

China's aviation regulator on Monday grounded nearly 100 Boeing Co 737 MAX 8 aircraft operated by its airlines, more than a quarter of the global fleet of the jets, after a deadly crash of one of the planes in Ethiopia.

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China hog prices hit 14-month high as African swine fever slashes output

Chinese hog prices marched to their highest in 14 months on Monday and look set to keep rising after weeks of gains, analysts and producers said, as the worst disease outbreak to hit the country's vast pig herd in years chops supply.

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Kazakh China rights advocate detained on hate speech charges: activists

Kazakh police have detained a Chinese-born activist who has campaigned on behalf of ethnic Kazakhs in China, fellow activists said on Sunday.

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New best story on Hacker News: Winding down my Debian involvement

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Turkey's economy slides into recession

The trade dispute with the US was one factor pushing Turkey's economy into recession last year.

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Aerospace group Safran's shares fall after Ethiopian Airlines crash

Shares in French aerospace group Safran fell on Monday, which traders attributed to fallout from Sunday's crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8 plane.

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Brexit talks deadlocked, no plans for PM trip to Brussels: UK source

Talks with the European Union to secure changes to a Brexit deal are now deadlocked and British Prime Minister Theresa May has no plans to go to Brussels on Monday, a government source said.

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Modi's former ally in Kashmir urges India to talk to Pakistan

India should talk to Pakistan and separatists in Kashmir to defuse tension raised by a suicide attack on an Indian paramilitary convoy that was claimed by Pakistan-based militants, a former chief minister of the state said.

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'Just one more push' to get Brexit, Britain's May urges EU

Prime Minister Theresa May urged the European Union on Friday to make "just one more push" to break the Brexit deadlock but proposals from the bloc's chief negotiator fell short of anything that would win over the British parliament.

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No majority in British parliament for second Brexit referendum: Reuters analysis

There is no majority in Britain's parliament in favor of holding a second Brexit referendum, according to a Reuters analysis of public comments made by lawmakers.

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Boeing says has no new guidance for 737 MAX 8 operators

Boeing said on Monday the investigation into the Ethiopian Airlines crash is in its early stages and there is no need to issue new guidance to operators of its 737 MAX 8 aircraft based on the information it has so far.

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Turkey's economy slides into recession

The trade dispute with the US was one factor pushing Turkey's economy into recession last year.

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