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TikTok’s founder Zhang Yiming has become China’s richest man with a fortune of almost $50bn (£38bn). Dubbed the “short video king”, the 41-year-old topped the Hurun China Rich List for the first time with $49.3bn (£37.9bn). Mr Yiming stepped down as chief executive of ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, in 2021. He is the 18th individual
Kamala Harris has warned Donald Trump is “fixated” on division – amid growing unrest over a comedian’s racist jokes at a rally for the Republican presidential nominee. Appearing at the Trump rally on Sunday, Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” and said “these Latinos, they love making babies”. He made the
Donald Trump’s “obvious mental decline” and “history as a convicted felon” should be enough reason for Americans not to vote for him, Michelle Obama has said. Speaking at a rally for Kamala Harris, the former first lady said she was “angry” at the “indifference” towards the Republican candidate’s behaviour. “I hope you’ll forgive me if
A political strategist who worked on Sir Keir Starmer’s campaign has explained how she went to the US to share “lessons learned” with the Democrats following Labour’s election victory. This week, the Trump campaign accused Labour of illegal interference after the party’s head of operations, Sofia Patel, posted on LinkedIn she was coordinating nearly 100
Donald Trump’s campaign team has called for an investigation into “blatant foreign interference” in the election by the Labour Party. The complaint to the US federal electoral commission said there had been “interference” in the “form of apparent illegal foreign national contributions made by the Labour Party of the UK” which had been “accepted” by