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WASHINGTON, Jan 9, 2024 (AFP) – A major storm system was battering parts of the United States on Tuesday, spinning off tornadoes in the south as forecasters warned of high winds and blizzards in the north, with hundreds of thousands of people losing power. Heavy rain leading to flash flooding, severe winds gusting in places to more than 50 miles per hour (80 kph), and thunderstorms were predicted from the “western Carolinas to the Mid-Atlantic […]
NEW YORK, Jan 10, 2024 (AFP) – An unauthorized message posted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s official X account briefly sent bitcoin prices soaring, forcing the market regulator to deny it had approved a new cryptocurrency product. Just after 4 pm local time (2100 GMT), the price of the world’s largest digital currency in terms of circulation surged towards its highest level for more than 22 months, before falling again a few minutes […]
BEIRUT, Jan 9, 2024 (AFP) – Lebanon’s Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah said it targeted an Israeli command base Tuesday in retaliation for the killings of one of its commanders and the Hamas deputy leader. Hezbollah and its arch-foe Israel have been exchanging near-daily fire across the border since the Israel-Hamas war broke out on October 7. The Shiite Muslim movement, a Hamas ally, said it had targeted the “enemy’s northern command centre” in the city […]
BRUSSELS, Jan 9, 2024 (AFP) – The European Union’s competition regulator said Tuesday it was looking into Microsoft’s investment into ChatGPT developer OpenAI to see if it merits further investigation under the bloc’s merger rules. The European Commission said in a statement it was “checking whether Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI might be reviewable under the EU Merger Regulation”. The move is part of efforts by Brussels to make sure its oversight can catch up with […]
By John BIERS NEW YORK, Jan 9, 2024 (AFP) – United and Alaska Airlines both reported on Monday that loose hardware had been discovered on some of their Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes during preliminary inspections after a dramatic mid-flight incident last week. The disclosures come as US federal transportation inspectors probe what caused a so-called door plug component to blow out last Friday on an Alaska Airlines passenger plane, forcing it to make an […]
MOSCOW, Jan 9, 2024 (AFP) – Russia on Tuesday said its military would do everything possible to stop the Ukrainian shelling of Belgorod, a border town where hundreds were evacuated after fatal bombardments. The pledge came as Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said Russian forces were dictating the course of fighting on the front line, which has barely shifted in about a year despite fierce fighting. Belgorod has suffered an uptick in fatal shelling attacks in […]
By Rochelle GLUZMAN PARIS, Jan 9, 2024 (AFP) – The year of 2023 was the hottest on record, with the increase in Earth’s surface temperature nearly crossing the critical threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius, EU climate monitors said Tuesday. Climate change intensified heatwaves, droughts and wildfires across the planet, and pushed the global thermometer 1.48 C above the preindustrial benchmark, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported. “It is also the first year with all […]
By Leon Bruneau with Mai Yaghi in the Gaza Strip TEL AVIV, Jan 9, 2024 (AFP) – The Israeli army bombed Gaza and battled Hamas fighters on Tuesday as US top diplomat Antony Blinken was back in Israel on a regional tour aimed at stopping the war from escalating across the Middle East. An AFP correspondent reported intense strikes overnight in Khan Yunis and Rafah, the biggest cities in the south of the besieged Palestinian […]
(Eagle News) — Over 100 police officers–or 177—have been charged with drug-related offenses in Metro Manila, President Bongbong Marcos said. In a video message, the President said the government was “now pursuing 151,818 court cases by the DOJ (Department of Justice) in 2022, to 2023 with 121,582, naikulong na.” According to the chief executive, the numbers show an improvement in the government’s fight against illegal drugs. “Pinaganda talaga natin ang komunidad natin, pinapaganda talaga natin […]
TOKYO, Jan 9, 2024 (AFP) – A magnitude 6.0 earthquake off central Japan caused strong shaking on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, but no tsunami warning was issued. The earthquake struck off the Sea of Japan coast, rattling the same part of the country where a huge tremor on New Year’s Day and its aftershocks caused widespread destruction, killing more than 200 people.
TikTok owner ByteDance is in talks with buyers including Chinese tech giant Tencent to sell its gaming arm, a company spokesperson said Tuesday, as it seeks to shed once-promising assets in the highly competitive sector. The discussions would see the firm sell Nuverse, a video game publisher that is a subsidiary of Beijing-based ByteDance. Nuverse was once viewed by the firm as a vital component in its bid to catch up with Tencent, a leader […]
