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Biden’s plan to overhaul tax code would close offshore tax loopholes  NBC News Biden’s Tax Plan Aims to Raise $2.5 Trillion and End Profit-Shifting  The New York Times Biden says he wants a 28% corporate tax rate because he’s ‘sick and tired

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s ruling party suffered a devastating defeat in a special election for key mayoral posts amid political scandals and policy blunders, vote counts showed on Thursday. Millions of South Koreans

BEIJING — China’s government warned Washington on Wednesday not to boycott next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing after the Biden administration said it was talking with allies about a joint approach to complaints of human rights abuses. A Foreign Ministry

British author John Carr reveals his father’s audacious wartime journey from the Lodz ghetto to Gibraltar, where he signed up to fight the Germans – all while hiding his Jewishness

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday there would be “no national lockdown,” ignoring growing calls from health experts a day after the nation saw its highest number of COVID-19 deaths in 24 hours since the

Restrictions on unvaccinated participating in Memorial Day events lifted; decision on increasing number of Israelis flying in and out of country postponed

About a year after Beyond Meat debuted in China on Starbucks’s menu, the Californian plant-based protein company opened a production facility near Shanghai to tap the country’s supply chain resources and potentially reduce the carbon footprint of its products. Situated

Concern as 222 cases of thrombosis recorded among 34 million people who received shot; scientists note those injected have a 90 times higher chance of being hit by lightning

Politically engaged consumers increasingly push companies to take sides in political disputes

“If we get to a point in any case, no matter who the defendant is … that we feel there is insufficient probable cause, we have to alert the defense and alert the court,” prosecutors said Wednesday.