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Thai premier condemns Bangkok bomb blasts

Bloomberg Authorities in Thailand tightened security in Bangkok as they probed a series of small blasts that hit the city, injuring at least four people. Some of the explosions were caused by homemade bombs and the incidents could be linked, the police said. Blasts occurred at a government complex, a suburban road, below a downtown metro station and near an ...

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Trump calls HK protests ‘riots’, adopting China rhetoric

Bloomberg President Donald Trump labeled recent protests in Hong Kong as “riots,” adopting the language used by Chinese authorities and suggesting the US would stay out of an issue that was “between Hong Kong and China.” “Something is probably happening with Hong Kong, because when you look at, you know, what’s going on, they’ve had riots for a long period ...

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Johnson’s UK majority cut to one seat

Bloomberg The anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats won a by-election in Brecon and Radnorshire, reducing Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s House of Commons majority to a single seat and making his balancing act more difficult as he seeks to deliver Brexit by October 31. Jane Dodds of the Liberal Democrats won 13,826 votes, beating Conservative Chris Davies on 12,401. Dodds overturned Davies’s majority ...

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