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Indian prime minister Modi is the guest of honor on France's national holiday, the Bastille Day July 14, 2023. On this day French revolutionaries freed prisoners of King Louis XVI at the Bastille in Paris. By October this led to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen the first formal document of rights of the people before the American document on these same rights a few years later.

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The outsize effect of a slowing economy on profits of Chinese companies, with higher interest expense on loans taken out for rapid expansion in the boom years, and the lower prices as a result of surplus capacity.

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The 2018 election in Mexico brings to power a party called The Movement for National Regeneration or Morena created in 2014 by Manuel Lopez Obrador, after he left the PRD. Obrador ran on the PRD ticket for president in the last two elections. Obrador won with 53% of the vote, about 30% above the vote gained by the next leading rival.  Elections for the lower house of parliament showed a steep drop from 204 seats to 45 seats for the PRI party which was in power under president Nieto. The next leading party PAN which ran the government before the Nieto term in office, and the centre left PRD, were badly weakened. PRD now has 21 members in lower house of parliament compared to 53 before. So deep were losses for the opposition parties such as PRI and PAN which alternately ran the government, and particularly the PRI which dominated Mexican politics since 1950, that experts see Mr. Obrador as replacing the PRI's dominance of politics with the centre left Morena. Morena's rise is a result of work at the grass roots level in Mexico just when the PRI was discredited for corruption and failure to maintain the rule of law. PRI candidate for president Antonio Meade was a U.S. trained former finance, foreign and social development minister who lacks grass roots activism support base. ...

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The full text of the speech made by Chinese president Xi at the 100th anniversary of the CCP. CCP was founded in 1921 on July 23, at the French Concession in Shanghai two years after the May 4, 1919 protests for Science, Modernization and Democracy. It started as a study group in the First United Front with the Nationalist Party. 

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EU leaders get Viktor Orban of Hungary to agree to a $50 billion fund to keep Ukraine's economy funded in 2024.

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The U.S. Labor Department reports increase in payrolls by 215,000 for March 2016. Manufacturing continues to be a soft spot with loss of 29,000 jobs. Health care, leisure and hospitality, and retailing each added about 40,000 jobs. Jobs increased by 30,000 each in construction, and in professional/business services.

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WSJ Review and Outlook on Thanksgiving Day 2025 - "This Fair Land" and the people of America who undaunted by other troubles left Delftshaven for these shores a long time ago. Delftshaven is todays Delfshaven that is a part of the port city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands from where the Pilgrims left for America. Pilgrims left Delftshaven in July 1620 on ship Speedwell to Southampton, England, then in September on the ship Mayflower to America.

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Adidas new CEO Kasper Rorsted, of Danish origin, adopted a costcutting approach at Henkel. Adidas needs to improve margins in its competition with Nike. It has also lost ground in European markets. He is seen as an American CEO in Germany.