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Asian shares retreated Friday after strong reports on the U.S. economy raised the possibility of interest rates staying painfully high. On Thursday, most U.S. stocks slumped, in the latest example of how good news for the economy can be bad for Wall Street, when strong economic reports fueled concern that the Federal Reserve might keep interest rates high to ensure there is a lid on inflation. The weakness was widespread and overshadowed another blowout profit report from market heavyweight Nvidia.
Fears that Russia would mount an attack on any NATO member are unfounded, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday, adding that the war in Ukraine that is now in its third year showed the limits of Russia's capabilities. Hungary, a member of the European Union and NATO, has been refusing to provide military assistance to Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.
The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to vote Friday on a resolution that strongly condemns attacks on humanitarian workers and U.N. personnel, and demands that all combatants protect them in accordance with international law. “The goal of the resolution is as simple as it is important,” Switzerland’s U.N. Ambassador Pascale Baeriswyl told The Associated Press on Thursday.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -The brother of former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has been ordered by a court to pay S$400,000 ($296,000) to two government ministers in a defamation suit, according to a written judgment published on Friday. Lee Hsien Yang, the estranged younger brother of the former prime minister, made defamatory allegations against the two ministers "of the gravest kind", wrote Justice Goh Yihan.
The situation in the Taiwan Strait, where China has carried out military exercises, is an "internal matter," Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said on Friday, declining to comment on drills that Taiwan has condemned. China's military conducted a second day of war games around Taiwan on Friday, with drills to test its ability to "seize power" and control key areas. Beijing has said the exercises were launched to punish Taiwan's new president, Lai Ching-te.
Shah Rukh Khan’s manager has said India’s “King of Bollywood” is recovering well after reports he was hospitalized with heatstroke, as parts of the country swelter during a weeks-long general election.
The fate of former US Marines pilot Daniel Duggan now rests with Australia’s attorney general after a magistrate ruled that he was eligible to be extradited to the United States.
A Florida priest has been accused of biting a woman with whom he got into a dispute at Sunday mass. Police are investigating the incident, NBC Miami reported.
The highly contagious Ebola virus has claimed more than 15,000 lives since it was first identified in central Africa in 1976. In January, Uganda declared the most recent Ebola epidemic over after it claimed the lives of 55 people. bur-ic-dl/kjm
Donald Trump drew one of the most diverse rally crowds of his political career on Thursday when he made a pilgrimage to the South Bronx, which rejected him by a whopping 68 points in 2020.
A massive landslide struck six villages in Papua New Guinea's highlands Friday, local officials said, with many homes believed to be buried and scores of villagers feared dead.The disaster hit a remote part of Enga province at around 3:00 am local time, when many villagers were at home asleep.
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Ukrainian military intelligence was directly involved in a deadly attack on a concert hall near Moscow in which over 140 people were killed, the head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov said, TASS reported on Friday. Bortnikov did not provide evidence to underpin his assertion. "The investigation is ongoing, but it is already safe to say that Ukrainian military intelligence is directly involved in this attack," the state news agency quoted Bortnikov as saying.
China’s military drills around Taiwan are designed to test its ability to “seize power” over the island, the People’s Liberation Army said Friday as its forces kicked off a second day of large-scale exercises encircling its democratic neighbor.
A fire ripped through an apartment complex in central Hanoi early Friday, killing 14 people and injuring three others, police said. In Vietnam's deadliest fire in two decades, 56 people died -- three of them children -- in a Hanoi apartment block blaze last September.
Trump's campaign rally in the Bronx tried to appeal to city-dwellers with promises such as making the subway beautiful again, avoiding other issues.
The El Nino weather pattern did not have "any influence" on widespread flooding that killed hundreds in East Africa this year, an expert group of scientists said Friday.But a study published by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group on Friday found that "researchers did not find any evidence that El Nino or the Indian Ocean Dipole had any influence" on this year's extreme rainfall.
The end of encampments at some American college campuses this spring was not the end of pro-Palestinian protests at Harvard and UCLA.
Extreme weather events have hit parts of Africa relentlessly in the last three years, with tropical storms, floods and drought causing crises of hunger and displacement. In southern and East Africa, more than 6,000 people have died and nearly 350,000 cases have been reported since a series of cholera outbreaks began in late 2021. Malawi and Zambia have had their worst outbreaks on record.
The skies were blue and the wind was blowing as residents of the small city of Greenfield, Iowa, worked to clean up two days after a destructive tornado ripped apart more than 100 homes in just one minute, took the lives of four residents and injured at least 35 more. More severe weather was expected in the Midwest on Thursday night into Friday, including a tornado that was on the ground for nearly an hour in southwestern Oklahoma and possible tornados in areas of Iowa that were already damaged. The havoc spun by Tuesday's tornado in Greenfield showed on the faces of people still processing how quickly homes and lives were shattered — some in mourning and many grateful to have been spared.
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