Facebook is planning to spend at least $1 billion in the news industry over the next three years on the back of its fight with the Australian government.
Joe Biden's promise to rebuild the U.S. middle class could hamper efforts to push policies that Asian countries would sign up to, said a political analyst.
President Joe Biden's Covid-19 response team will hold a press briefing Friday amid the winter storm that has delayed vaccine deliveries across the U.S.
Japan's core consumer prices declined 0.6% in January as compared with a year earlier, according to data released Friday by the country's Statistics Bureau.
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