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Jokowi leads Indonesia’s vote count

Bloomberg Indonesian President Joko Widodo led his challenger by about 12 percentage points midway through an official tally of votes cast in the election, weakening his rival’s claim of victory. Widodo, known as Jokowi, secured 56.2 percent of the votes, compared to 43.8 percent for challenger Prabowo Subianto with ballots from 52 percent of the polling stations tallied, according to ...

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Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam defends extradition law

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s leader said she would press ahead with legislation to end a ban on extraditions to mainland China, despite opponents staging one of the largest mass protests since the 2014 Occupy movement. Chief Executive Carrie Lam reaffirmed her plan to pass by the end of the legislative session in July a bill allowing one-time transfers of criminal suspects ...

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Who’s afraid of robots at workplaces, and why

An unsettling specter haunts the world economy: a future of ubiquitous robots that destroy millions of jobs. Sometimes this is called “artificial intelligence”; sometimes it isn’t. Either way, it threatens the social stability of the United States and other advanced countries, which depend on most people working most of the time. Well, don’t believe it, says a massive new report. ...

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