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ENSENADA, Mexico (AP) — Three men charged with murder in the 2024 killings of two Australian brothers and an American friend went on trial Monday in Mexico’s Baja California state, court officials said. The three men are charged with murder and aggravated robbery in the killing of the three people who went missing while camping and surfing at a remote beach in Baja. Jesús Gerardo García, known as “El Kekas,” […]

BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares and U.S. futures were mixed Tuesday after markets on Wall Street were closed for the Labor Day holiday. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 gave up early gains, falling 0.3% to 66,170.34 after the government reported that the economy grew at a slightly faster annual pace in the April-June quarter than earlier reported, at 1.4%. Earlier, the Cabinet Office had estimated the annualized growth rate at 1.1%. The […]

LONDON, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Britain will announce a trade ban on goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank later on Tuesday, confirmed a senior minister, as part of the UK’s efforts to support a two-state solution. Six weeks into his new job, foreign minister Ed Miliband flagged last week that he was looking at resetting Britain’s policy on Israel, and he is due to make a […]

By Uditha Jayasinghe YALA, Sri Lanka, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Mugger crocodiles bask along the edge of the shrinking reservoir, waiting like everything else in Sri Lanka’s drought-hit Yala National Park for the green tankers that come every day to pump in water. From next week, park managers will be taking their emergency measures even further by banning tourists from the watering hole and other busy areas, to give the […]

COPENHAGEN, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Iceland summoned the U.S. ambassador on Monday after President Donald Trump posted an image on social media showing the island and other countries covered by the American flag, local broadcaster RUV said. The map showed the United States, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean covered by the U.S. flag, with the entire landmass labelled “United States of America”. Trump posted the image […]

By Leo Marchandon Sept 8 (Reuters) – Large companies and public bodies are increasingly scrutinising their dependence on critical digital infrastructure as geopolitical tensions, export controls and cyber threats expose vulnerabilities that were once largely taken for granted, a Capgemini survey published on Tuesday showed. Responses from executives at 1,300 large organisations across 11 countries suggest digital infrastructure is increasingly being treated like energy and physical supply chains, requiring board […]

By Heejin Kim SEOUL, Sept 8 (Reuters) – South Korea’s demand for power in the coming years is set to surge on plans by chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to expand production and the building of new AI data centres, according to the country’s energy minister. Those AI-driven power needs alone will lift South Korea’s demand for power by 25 to 30 gigawatts, the Minister of Climate, Energy and […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani went 0 for 3 with two strikeouts and a walk in his return to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ lineup Monday night after a four-day break to deal with lingering left knee and right biceps soreness. The two-way superstar isn’t expected to pitch again this season. He was in his usual leadoff spot as the designated hitter for the series opener against the Cincinnati Reds, […]

BRUSSELS (AP) — A quarter of a century after the Al-Qaeda attacks on the United States, jihadist groups still pose a major threat to security in Europe, but a new menace has surfaced that is driven mostly by young people online and the authorities are worried. The exact size of the network behind what is being called nihilistic violent extremism is unclear. But police investigators from nine European countries found […]