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MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — In the heart of the Brazilian rainforest, residents and shop owners are feeling the World Cup anticipation. As residents decorate Rua 3, a street in downtown Manaus, an open-air party sends the sounds of Brazilian music wafting through the air. Oversized flags representing the 48 qualifying nations in the soccer tournament are painted on the surface of the street, while the same flags, crafted of paper […]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Trump administration’s push to expand oil and gas development in Alaska faces a new test Friday, with the latest lease sale set for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Opponents of drilling in the refuge’s coastal plain have pointed to a lack of industry interest in the prior two sales held there and ongoing changes in Alaska’s arctic region due to climate change as proof the […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Television and movie actors on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to ratify a four-year contract with studios and streaming services, a month after their union leaders negotiated a deal they say provides protections against synthetic actors created by artificial intelligence. The ratification was widely expected and a walkout never seemed to be in the cards during drama-free negotiations, but the vote assures there will be no repeat of […]

TIVAT, Montenegro (AP) — Leaders from across the European Union and the Balkans are gathering in Montenegro on Friday to discuss expanding the bloc to include countries in the region, seen as a key area in countering security and economic threats posed by Russia and China. The EU-Western Balkans summit, being held in the Adriatic Sea coastal town of Tivat, brings together European leaders including President Emmanuel Macron of France, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is working overnight to pass legislation that would fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies as Democrats and some Republicans have tried to add language to permanently block Trump from creating a $1.776 billion settlement fund. Earlier in the day, Republicans turned back a Democratic effort to block the fund, which would compensate the president’s allies who say they have been politically persecuted. But there […]

By Summer Zhen and Kane Wu HONG KONG, June 5 (Reuters) – SpaceX’s website and IPO marketing documents were not accessible on Friday in Hong Kong and mainland China, a Reuters review showed, a step that threatens to curb participation by investors there in a listing expected to be the world’s largest. Elon Musk’s SpaceX aims to raise $75 billion, the most globally in an IPO, in a deal that […]

June 5 (Reuters) – The public listing of SpaceX will take centre stage as it looks likely to become one of the top 10 most valuable U.S. listed firms after it goes public, while a rate hike from the European Central Bank on Thursday seems nailed on. Elsewhere, China releases a bunch of data and the OPEC+ group meets to decide its oil output quotas against the backdrop of the […]

SYDNEY, June 5 (Reuters) – Australia’s AirTrunk said on Friday it would invest $30 billion in India within the next four years to build out 5 gigawatts of new data centre capacity in the South Asian nation. Sydney-headquartered AirTrunk, backed by Blackstone and Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) entered the Indian market in April with its purchase of Lumina CloudInfra. The firm’s Indian development pipeline includes 600 megawatts of […]

BEIJING, June 5 (Reuters) – The number of Chinese students sitting the country’s national university entrance exam, due to begin on Sunday, has dropped sharply by 450,000 to 12.9 million from a year earlier, as more teenagers opt out of pursuing academic degrees. The figures, released by the Ministry of Education on Wednesday, come amid a structural shrinkage in the cohort of college-age Chinese teenagers, compounded by a challenging job […]