China’s Military Purges Accelerate

Microsoft on Friday apologised for a global outage that disrupted public services and businesses around the world, as it reported a “broad recovery” for Outlook email and other services. The company ruled out any malicious “cyber or AI” activity as the cause of the outage, which affected several Microsoft products and disrupted healthcare services, delayed corporate earnings reports and left schools struggling to communicate. “We are deeply sorry for the disruption this incident has caused our..

The United States and China held the inaugural meeting of their bilateral Board of Trade on Friday, just days before US President Donald Trump is set to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Shenzhen. “Today, the Office of the US Trade Representative, alongside the @USTreasury, held the first official US-China Board of Trade meeting with our Chinese counterparts,” the US Trade Representative (USTR) said on social media. “The Trump Administration looks forward to continuing our engagement with China.

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Pope Leo held the central event of his 12-day South America tour on Friday, an outdoor mass in northern Peru where he told a vast crowd of people who once knew him as their bishop that he thanked God he was alive to see them. People arrived on foot and in lines of vehicles at an arid field outside Chiclayo, a city 10,700km (6,650 miles) from Rome, where the former Robert Prevost, elected leader of the Catholic ‌Church last year, is still described as “Padre” (Father) or “amigo” (friend). Cheers.