WASHINGTON (AP) – The meeting that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will have at the White House on Thursday originally seemed like a prime opportunity to have President Donald Trump’s ear before he embarked on a trip to China.
NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks pared their losses on Wall Street as an early spike in crude oil prices eased later in the day. The S&P 500 fell 0.3% after erasing an earlier drop of 1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.3%. Markets in Europe and Asia had considerably larger losses, when oil prices were higher earlier in the day.
HONG KONG (AP) – China’s technology giant Alibaba Group pledged on Thursday a goal of surpassing $100 billion in revenue from its artificial intelligence and cloud businesses over the next five years, which it said would be powered by the AI demand boom.
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) – Heavy rains and strong winds lashed Pakistan’s largest city overnight, killing at least 15 people and injuring several others as walls and roofs collapsed at multiple locations, emergency services and hospital officials said Thursday.
HONG KONG (AP) – An independent committee investigating the cause of Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades heard accounts Thursday about how a series of failures contributed to the 2025 blaze that engulfed seven buildings and killed 168 people as hearings in the case got underway.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – Indonesia’s richest man, Michael Bambang Hartono, who helped turn the Djarum cigarette company into one of the country’s largest business empires, died Thursday. He was 86.
HONG KONG (AP) – Lawmakers in China’s casino city of Macao unanimously passed a law Thursday that would allow closed-door trials in cases where authorities decide that public proceedings would harm national security.
BEIJING (AP) – A Chinese province has launched a crackdown on the fentanyl trade – a contentious issue in U.S.-China relations – arresting seven people and shutting down more than 200 websites in recent months, state media reported Thursday.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – BTS will stage its long-awaited comeback concert on Saturday night at Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Square, one of South Korea’s most famous landmarks that represents its royal heritage and political and cultural life.
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