TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – Chinese authorities have executed a man convicted of using poison to kill a billionaire gaming tycoon linked to the Netflix adaptation of “The Three-Body Problem” over a professional dispute, local media reported Tuesday.
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks pushed to more records as companies like Dollar Tree, Snowflake and Hormel Foods kept piling up profits. The S&P 500 added 0.6% to its all-time high. The Dow Jones rose less than 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.9%. Treasury yields eased in the bond market.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – Africa’s next generation of power projects is increasingly being built around solar and wind power and battery storage, as governments and investors shift away from coal and large hydropower dams in search of cheaper, faster and more reliable electricity.
TOKYO (AP) – Japan and the Philippines on Thursday agreed to strengthen their defense cooperation by accelerating talks on Japanese weapons sales and intelligence sharing at a time of fears over China’s military activity in Asia.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) – A group led by a Roman Catholic bishop in the Philippines launched a fact-finding body Wednesday to document accounts of witnesses and other details of ex-President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody anti-drugs crackdown that the government can use to prosecute law enforcers.
Over the past two weeks, Israel’s military has killed the leader of Hamas’ military wing and his replacement – the latest in a string of such killings that have weakened the militant group without having much impact on the ongoing conflict. Mohammed Odeh and Izz al-Din al-Haddad were among the architects of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) – Hundreds of climbers, mountaineers and officials gathered in Kathmandu on Wednesday to discuss the risks of scaling Mount Everest at a time of warming temperatures and as a surge in climbers creates new challenges, including the garbage they leave behind.
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
Sure, folks discuss the weather a lot, especially in Britain. Still, it’s hard to imagine that a quiet chat about the weather – and why it isn’t boring – could be an emotional high point of a feature film. Especially when that film is about World War II, one of the most cinematic subjects in history.
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