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Domestic travellers spent 166.9 billion yuan (US$23.13 billion) during one of China's longest breaks, the May Day holiday, for a rise of 13.5 per cent from pre-pandemic levels, government data showed on Monday, but expenditure per head lagged 2019 rates. Boosting consumer confidence has presented a key challenge for Chinese authorities this year amid a ...
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The governor of Colombia’s central-northern department of Santander, Juvenal Díaz, denounced the presence of members of the Gulf Clan, also known as the Gaitanista Army of Colombia (EGC), in the Santurbán moor. The EGC is a neo-paramilitary group and likely the country’s largest drug cartel, which was created after the demobilization of the United ...