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Aug 14 (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes were mixed at the open on Friday, a day after the S&P 500 closed at a record high, as investors assessed retail sales data and took stock of the latest developments in the Middle East. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 2.8 points, or 0.01%, at the open to 53842.8. The S&P 500 rose 7.6 points, or 0.10%, at the open to […]

SAO PAULO, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Brazilian police have recovered eight works by French painter Henri Matisse that were stolen from Sao Paulo’s largest public library late last year.  The prints, valued at more than 1 million reais ($193,000), were found in an apartment in the downtown area of Sao Bernardo do Campo, part of the Sao Paulo metropolitan area, according to a police statement. The recovery is a key […]

Just weeks after twin earthquakes devastated Venezuela, neighboring Colombia suffered its own deadly temblor Monday, leaving responders, volunteers and loved ones desperately searching for missing people and tending to those displaced or injured. The 7.4 magnitude earthquake affected a large swath of western Colombia, from urban centers like Cali and Pereira to remote and rugged areas in the department of Chocó. As of Thursday evening, authorities had confirmed more than […]

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Vote counting in Zambia’s presidential election was suspended by the electoral authority Friday over reports of attacks on polling officials and the “theft” of some ballot papers. The Electoral Commission of Zambia said it was suspending the counting immediately “in view of the security situation and continued threats of violence.” The commission said it would review the decision in 24 hours. Thursday’s election in the copper-rich […]

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s largest city has registered a concerning rise in acute diarrhea cases, state media said Friday, adding to the hardships of a country grappling with severe flooding and civil war. The state-run Myanma Alinn newspaper said 182 patients from Yangon were admitted to the city’s general hospital with diarrhea the past four days, including 93 who tested positive for diarrhea-causing pathogens. The report did not specify the […]

By Dan Catchpole SEATTLE, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Boeing’s announcement this week that it is selling Wisk Aero is less a signal of a broader breakup than an effort to shed a struggling, non-core air taxi business that had become a distraction from the aerospace giant’s turnaround efforts, analysts said. Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg previously said he would sell off non-essential parts of the company and its subsidiaries to stabilize its […]

By Eduardo Baptista and Laurie Chen BEIJING, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Chinese AI startup Z.ai said on Friday its open-source GLM-5.3 model had neared Anthropic’s restricted Mythos 5 in identifying software vulnerabilities, bolstering the credentials of a Chinese AI challenger gaining traction among Western developers. Z.ai said GLM-5.3 scored 84.5% on CyberGym, a test of whether a model can review code, identify security flaws and confirm that they are real. […]

WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) – U.S. retail sales unexpectedly fell in July after recent strong gains that were fueled by large tax refunds, but consumer spending is likely to remain supported by rising wealth from the stock market even as households are increasingly sensitive to higher prices. Retail sales dropped 0.6% last month after an unrevised 0.2% gain in June, the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau said on Friday. Economists polled […]

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police on Friday carried out search warrants targeting former Rio de Janeiro Governor Claudio Castro, two sources familiar with the investigation told Reuters. Castro’s lawyer said in a statement to Reuters that authorities had not searched his residence. In a statement that did not name suspects, Brazil’s federal police said it was investigating alleged fraudulent and reckless management, money laundering, tax […]