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EU calls for calm over Bosnia protests

Bloomberg Hundreds attended protests in Bosnia’s two biggest cities, and the European Union demanded an explanation for police detaining the man whose months-long public search for information about his son’s death has turned into an anti-government movement. Davor Dragicevic, 49, was taken into custody in Banja Luka, in the Serb half of Bosnia-Herzegovina, after he failed to appear for questioning ...

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CBP orders medical check over migrant child death

Bloomberg US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) ordered new medical testing on all children in its custody, following the death of a 8-year-old Guatemalan boy caught crossing the border near El Paso, Texas, the agency said in a statement. The directive will mean secondary medical checks on children in the agency’s care, including unaccompanied minors and those who arrive as ...

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How Beijing risks trashing its amazing growth story

In a recent column, I observed that by many measures, China is the world’s largest economy. This means a number of benefits will now flow — and indeed are already flowing — to China that used to go to the US and Europe. Chief among these is agglomeration, of the tendency of businesses to seek out the biggest markets and ...

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