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PARIS (AP) — Firefighters across France and in central England struggled against multiple fires Friday as a new wave of record-breaking heat baked a swath of Europe, their task further complicated by exceptionally parched landscapes. With France experiencing its driest year ever, a new fire raced through woodlands overnight in the Landes region on the southwest coast. The blaze forced more than 500 people to evacuate their homes in the […]

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — President Prabowo Subianto on Friday touted Indonesia’s strongest first-half economic growth in more than a decade, saying the country could achieve 6% growth by the end of this year despite global uncertainty, while stressing that economic expansion must translate into jobs and higher living standards. In his annual State of the Nation address before members of the Parliament in the capital Jakarta, Prabowo said Southeast Asia’s […]

NEW YORK (AP) — It flies. It heals all wounds. It can be of the essence, and it can be money. We thrill in the best of it, lament the worst. We’re warned not to waste it, since we can’t turn it back — even as we try to make up for when it’s lost. And probably more than anything when it comes to time, most of us try to […]

Aug 14 (Reuters) – Applied Materials shares fell about 5% in premarket trading on Friday, as the chip equipment maker’s upbeat outlook failed to soothe investors worried about the threat from intensifying competition. The muted reaction illustrates the high bar chip stocks have to clear and suggests that investors have little tolerance for any hint that a company may be falling behind peers. After a sharp rally that has more […]

By Stephanie Lecocq LUGLON, France, Aug 14 (Reuters) – French authorities have evacuated 525 people from the village of Luglon after a wildfire broke out in the southwestern Landes region, not far from an area already devastated by major blazes this summer. The fire, which has razed 1,100 hectares (2,700 acres) after it began on Thursday, has spread to within 2 km (1.2 miles) of the centre of Luglon, regional […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Edwin Diaz is out of explanations and manager Dave Roberts is almost out of patience after the latest untimely meltdown by the Los Angeles Dodgers’ problematic bullpen. The Dodgers took a two-run lead into the ninth inning Thursday night with Diaz, the highest-paid closer in baseball, on the mound. The defending champions left one inning later with a 5-4 loss to the NL-leading Milwaukee Brewers, who […]

BEIJING, Aug 14 (Reuters) – China’s defence ministry on Friday dismissed Taiwan’s annual Han Kuang military drills as a “wasteful charade” that “stoked war panic”, in the Chinese government’s first official comment on the 10 days of war games since they began last week. Taiwan, a democratically governed island that rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claims, began the exercise last week, as China ramps up its military presence around the island. The […]

PARIS, Aug 14 (Reuters) – French taxpayers’ data, both individuals and professionals, were stolen in a cyberattack, the French Finance Ministry said late on Thursday. • A “malicious actor” claimed on Wednesday he broke into the tax agency, General Direction of Public Finances, in late June, the ministry said in a statement. • Investigations confirmed the cyberattack, which led to the consulting and extraction of taxpayers’ data, the statement said. […]

By Arpan Chaturvedi NEW DELHI, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Indian electronics company Eureka Forbes said it has launched an internal investigation into its supply chain after authorities uncovered child labour at one of its suppliers in New Delhi. The National Human Rights Commission this week asked Eureka, as well as electrical equipment maker Havells and Unilever’s India unit, to make checks after four children were rescued from a small-scale Indian […]