The dogs purportedly ate meth off the ground while walking on streets or at a park in San Jose. The drug can be fatal for dogs.
Practices such as redlining left marginalized groups in more disaster-prone areas with poorer quality infrastructure − and more likely to experience prolonged power outages.
Antiquities recovered after being looted in Italy and sold on the global black market have found their sanctuary in the heart of Rome.Many were smuggled out of Italy via a network of antique dealers and sold to foreign collectors.
Kuwait said Wednesday its refining capacity had reached a record 1.8 million barrels per day as it inaugurated one of the region's biggest refineries which started operating at full capacity in recent months.It was officially inaugurated on Wednesday, months after its output reached full capacity of 615,000 bpd.
Western countries should let Ukraine strike military bases inside Russia with the sophisticated long-range weapons they are providing to Kyiv, French President Emmanuel Macron said, pressuring his allies in the most recent sign of a potentially significant policy shift that could help change the complexion of the war. The question of whether to allow Ukraine to hit targets on Russian soil with Western-supplied weaponry has been a delicate issue since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor in February 2022. Western leaders have mostly shrunk from taking the step because it runs the risk of provoking Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has repeatedly warned that the West's direct involvement could put the world on a path to nuclear conflict.
About 6.5 million children in Afghanistan were forecast to experience crisis levels of hunger in 2024, nongovernmental organization Save the Children said. Nearly 3 of 10 Afghan children will face crisis or emergency levels of hunger this year as the country feels the immediate impacts of floods, the long-term effects of drought, and the return of Afghans from neighboring Pakistan and Iran, according to a report released late Tuesday by Save The Children.
Mining giant Anglo American, cyber security firm Darktrace and Royal Mail parent IDS -- three major UK companies in the midst of big takeover bids. However, US private equity firm Thoma Bravo has struck a deal to buy cyber security company Darktrace for $5.3 billion in cash.
Mining giant Anglo American rejected a request by Australian rival BHP to extend talks on a $49 billion takeover offer beyond a looming Wednesday deadline, possibly ending a bid to create a copper titan.Anglo American rejected a third offer from BHP last week, worth £38.6 billion, but agreed to keep talks alive for seven more days.
Negotiations for a landmark trade and defense deal between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have stalled because of Israel’s war in Gaza and the presidential election.
Retired lawyer Peter Antonucci bought an apartment on board millionaires-only residential cruise ship The World. Here’s what he says it was like on board.
It agreed to pay $1.3 billion in cash and another $1.7 billion in future milestone-based payments for EyeBio, and will gain access to its retinal disease drug Restoret as part of the deal. Merck said in February it was in the market for deals of up to $15 billion, and has already struck two major deals this year, as its blockbuster cancer immunotherapy Keytruda is set to lose exclusivity by the end of the decade. London-based EyeBio, which operates as Eyebiotech Ltd, has operations in the United States and the UK.
Preliminary findings by Singapore’s Transport Safety Investigation Bureau found that the airplane dropped 178 ft. in less than five seconds.
Garry Conille, Haiti’s new prime minister, said Wednesday that he was “very honored” to be chosen for the post, in his first statement since a transitional council selected him to lead the troubled Caribbean country under siege by gangs. Conille thanked the civil society groups, political parties and members of the Haitian diaspora who proposed him as a candidate. Conille submitted his resignation Tuesday as UNICEF’s regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean, a post he has held since January 2023.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will make a rare joint campaign appearance in Philadelphia to shore up support from Black voters in Pennsylvania.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday headed for talks with Moldova President Maia Sandu aimed at showing robust support for the frontline country's Western aspirations as alarm grows over Russian gains elsewhere.Blinken will announce "a robust package of support" for Moldova, said Jim O'Brien, the US assistant secretary of state for Europe.
Hong Kong police arrested a seventh person on Wednesday under its new security law in relation to social media posts about commemorating Beijing's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. "The enforcement action is still ongoing and the possibility of further arrests is not ruled out," the National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police said Wednesday.
Asian and European stock markets slid Wednesday on worries over the global interest-rate outlook, while oil extended gains after an attack on a ship in the Red Sea stoked worries about crude supplies.In commodities on Wednesday, oil prices rose further on geopolitical concerns after a bulk carrier was attacked in the Red Sea, a key waterway for shipping and particularly crude.
Millions of South Africans are voting in what is expected to be the most pivotal general election since the end of apartheid.
China and Japan have agreed to resume regular talks between their ruling parties for the first time in six years, officials from Japan's coalition government said on Wednesday. Ties between Asia's top two economies have been strained by issues including Japan's concerns about China's maritime activities in the East and South China Seas, and China's protests against Japan's release of treated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean.
A group working under the U.N. Human Rights Council has issued a wide-ranging report about rights in Japan, including discrimination against minorities and unhealthy working conditions. The report, issued this week in Geneva, recommended various changes in Japan, such as more training in businesses to raise awareness of rights issues, setting up mechanisms to hear grievances, enhancing diversity and strengthening checks on labor conditions, as well as sanctions on human rights violations. The U.N. Working Group on Business and Human Rights, which visited Japan last year, is made up of independent human rights experts who work under a mandate from the council, but they don’t speak for it.
France and Germany said Tuesday that Ukraine should be allowed to use their weapons against targets inside Russia from which Moscow attacks Ukraine.
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