#BREAKING Biden says his huge infrastructure plan will create "millions of jobs"
#BREAKING Biden says "we can't delay another minute" on rebuilding US infrastructure
#BREAKING Biden says investment plan will help US "win global competition" with China
#UPDATE President Joe Biden unveiled a $2 trillion infrastructure plan aimed at modernizing the crumbling transport network, creating millions of jobs and delivering a "once-in-a-generation" investment enabling the United States to best China economically u.afp.com/UgWm
VIDEO: Biden sets out 'once-in-a-generation' $2 trillion infrastructure plan.
The plan aims at modernizing America's crumbling transport network, creating millions of jobs and delivering investment that will enable the country to best China on the global stage
Corporate tax rates.
#AFPgraphcs chart comparing corporate tax rates in OECD countries, as US proposes to raise rates from 21% to 28%.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is an intergovernmental economic organisation with 37 member countries
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#BREAKING Gunfire heard at Indonesian national police headquarters in Jakarta: media
#UPDATE Indonesian authorities shot a person who entered the national police headquarters in the capital #Jakarta on Wednesday, local media said, describing it as an "alleged terror attack" u.afp.com/UgM6
#BREAKING Woman shot dead at Indonesia police headquarters was IS sympathiser: official
#BREAKING Italian naval officer arrested on Russia spying charges: police
#UPDATE The Italian navy captain was arrested in Rome on spying charges after allegedly passing "confidential documents" to a Russian military official in exchange for money, police say
#UPDATE The Italian, a middle-ranking officer serving as a frigate captain, was caught red-handed after a "clandestine meeting" with the Russian late Tuesday in Rome, according to a police statement
#AFPgraphics comparing the deforestation footprint of G20 and selected countries
#BREAKING Rainforest destruction up 12% in 2020: Global Forest Watch
#UPDATE An area of pristine rainforest the size of the Netherlands was burned or hacked down in 2020, as the destruction of tropical forests accelerated despite a global economic slowdown, research shows.
The worst losses were in Brazil, Global Forest Watch reports
#BREAKING US judge sentences Honduran president's brother to life in jail for drug trafficking
#UPDATE Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez's brother was sentenced to life in prison by a New York judge Tuesday for large-scale drug trafficking after a trial that implicated the leader of the Central American country u.afp.com/UgpZ
#BREAKING Honduran president calls brother's US drug trafficking sentence 'outrageous'
#BREAKING WHO chief urges deeper probe into lab leak Covid origins theory
#BREAKING WHO chief criticises lack of data access from China for Covid origins investigators
#UPDATE World Health Organization (#WHO) chief #Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday urged a deeper investigation into whether the #coronavirus outbreak originated with a lab leak, as world leaders pushed for a treaty to prepare for future pandemics u.afp.com/UgTi