Lawsuit against fast fashion retailer Shein claims RICO violations | AP News

Lawsuit against fast fashion retailer Shein claims RICO violations | AP News

China’s fast fashion retailer Shein is facing a lawsuit that claims the clothing maker’s copyright infringement is so aggressive, it amounts to racketeering.The filing this week claims that Shein is in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as RICO, a law originally crafted to prosecute organized crime. “Shein has grown

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North Korea’s ambassador blames US for regional tensions in a rare appearance at UN Security Council | AP News

North Korea’s ambassador blames US for regional tensions in a rare appearance at UN Security Council | AP News

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea’s U.N. ambassador defended his country’s recent long-range missile launch in a rare appearance at the U.N. Security Council on Thursday where he also accused the United States of driving the situation in northeast Asia “to the brink of nuclear war.” Kim Song told the council that Wednesday’s test-flight of

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Blinken meets Wang Yi in Indonesia. But the region remains wary of the US-China rivalry | AP News

Blinken meets Wang Yi in Indonesia. But the region remains wary of the US-China rivalry | AP News

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met China’s top diplomat to discuss thorny issues as part of efforts to nurture talks on the sidelines of regional diplomatic meetings in Indonesia, whose president called on rival powers Friday to avoid turning the region into a “competition arena.”Blinken stressed the importance of maintaining

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Mass grave with at least 87 bodies found in Sudan’s volatile Darfur region, United Nations says | AP News

Mass grave with at least 87 bodies found in Sudan’s volatile Darfur region, United Nations says | AP News

CAIRO (AP) — The bodies of dozens of people allegedly killed by Sudanese paramilitary forces and an allied militia have been uncovered in a mass grave in West Darfur, the United Nations said Thursday.According to “credible information” obtained by the U.N. Human Rights Office, at least 87 people — some of them from the ethnic

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