Prada to buy Versace for 1.25 bn euros to create new force in Italian fashion
MILAN (ITALY) - Prada said Thursday that it had reached a deal to buy Versace for 1.25 billion euros ($1.38 billion), building a new Italian fashion powerhouse and hoping to insert much-needed "spark" into its smaller, flashier rival.
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US-China trade war surges, overshadowing Trump climbdown
WASHINGTON - The US-China trade war intensified Thursday, sending the global economy into unknown territory and dampening relief after President Donald Trump's earlier climbdown from a wider tariff onslaught against the rest of the world.
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Global plastic recycling rates 'stagnant' at under 10%: study
PARIS - The amount of plastic being recycled around the world is stagnant at less than 10 percent with most new plastic still made from fossil fuels, a new study said Thursday.
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Death toll in Dominican nightclub disaster rises to 218
SANTO DOMINGO - The death toll after a roof collapsed at a crowded nightclub in the Dominican Republic has climbed to 218, the head of rescue operations said Thursday, in the Caribbean nation's worst disaster in decades.
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Miuccia Prada's path from activist to top designer
MILAN (ITALY) - As a student in the volatile May of 1968, Miuccia Prada took to the streets of Milan to demonstrate for women's rights wearing an Yves Saint Laurent suit.
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Hong Kong police take away US-based activist's parents for questioning
Hong Kong national security police have taken away the parents of wanted US-based activist Frances Hui Wing-ting for questioning, the Post has learned, after Washington imposed a new round of sanctions on local officials for what it called "transnational repression".
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