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MELBOURNE, Sept 1 (Reuters) – The National Football League (NFL) is looking to bring a game to Australia every season as part of its international strategy and sees the nation as a strategic growth market for American football, a senior executive told Reuters on Tuesday. Australia hosts its first NFL game at the 100,000-seat Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on September 11 with the LA Rams opening their season against the […]

SINGAPORE, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Japan’s benchmark bond yield hit the 3% level for the first time since 1996 on Tuesday amid a broad-based global bond selloff, underscoring how inflation, fiscal concerns and rate hikes are reshaping markets that once anchored global borrowing costs. The latest sharp selloff follows renewed military attacks in the now six month U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, sending Brent crude futures above $91 per barrel and […]

By Dominique Patton PARIS, Sept 1 (Reuters) – France started imposing penalties on the extreme end of fast fashion on Tuesday to try to curb a surge in sales of cheap clothing sold by e-commerce sites including Shein and Temu. The penalties – part of a fast-fashion law passed in June that aims to address environmental concerns from overproduction – range from €0.25 (30 U.S. cents) for a pair of boxer […]

By Deepa Seetharaman SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 31 – OpenAI denied Apple’s allegations of trade secret theft on Monday, saying the iPhone maker failed to show any confidential information was stolen by former employees. “This dispute is a mess of Apple’s own making, and it is trying to blame everyone else,” OpenAI said in a filing late Monday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California. Apple sued OpenAI and former […]

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 1 (Reuters) – The United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday it was not involved in Malaysia’s planned repatriation of Myanmar refugees, and warned that it remains unsafe for them to return to the war-torn country. Malaysia’s Home Ministry said last week it had finalised the first phase of a voluntary repatriation programme that will see 1,476 refugees returned to Myanmar on September 29.  Prime Minister Anwar […]

BOBO-DIOULASSO, Burkina Faso (AP) — The soil beneath Oumarou Compaoré’s boots is sandy and stony. It’s hardly the lush setting usually needed to support growing pineapples. But this farm in landlocked Burkina Faso is part of national efforts to reduce overall reliance on imports and adapt to an ever-harsher climate in the dry heat of Africa’s Sahel region. Pineapples have long been seen as exotic fruit grown by richer coastal […]

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — In the days since Tsering Gelbu Lama’s wife was swept away by devastating floods along the Nepal-Tibet border, he still hasn’t told his 4-year-old daughter that her mother is dead. Lama wiped away tears as he sat on the floor of a Buddhist monastery turned makeshift shelter for hundreds of others evacuated from remote villages to the capital, Kathmandu. “I don’t know how I will pass […]

HONG KONG (AP) — Shares in fast-fashion online retail giant Shein lost around 10% after it began trading on Hong Kong’s stock market Tuesday, after a long delay in the company’s plans to list its shares publicly. Shein raised about $1.7 billion, priced at HK$48.56 ($6.19) a share, in its initial public offering in Hong Kong in one of the city’s biggest new share sales this year. “Shein’s Hong Kong […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California would allow Jews to voluntarily identify their Jewish heritage on state forms under a bill the state Assembly passed Monday. The bill, which needs a final vote in the Legislature to head to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk, would require state agencies that collect demographic information to add “Jewish” as an option for ethnicity or ancestry. The goal is to give state officials and researchers better […]