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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ebrahim Hajjaj CAIRO/GAZA, July 28 (Reuters) – On a road in Gaza City’s Zeitoun district, Palestinian resident Assem Dawla loaded mattresses and bags onto a truck as concrete yellow blocks marking the edge of Israel’s expanding military zone stood amid the rubble nearby. He said it was the seventh or eighth time since the war began that he and his family had been forced to leave […]

July 28 (Reuters) – Nasdaq futures fell on Tuesday, mirroring a cautious mood across global markets toward AI chip stocks on concerns about hefty corporate spending and rising Chinese competition, ahead of earnings from some of the biggest companies on Wall Street. Chip bellwethers such as Nvidia fell 1.1%, Micron slid 4.6% and Applied Materials lost 3.5% in premarket trading, while U.S.-listed shares of Taiwan’s TSMC and Korea’s SK Hynix […]

NAIROBI, July 28 (Reuters) – Uganda’s health authorities declared the country Ebola-free on Tuesday ending the East African nation’s latest outbreak of the viral haemorrhagic disease that infected 20 people and killed two of them since it was declared in mid-May. (Reporting by Vincent Mumo Nzilani, Editing by Louise Heavens) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Abigail Summerville NEW YORK, July 28 (Reuters) – Family-owned food companies are stocking up on U.S. snack companies, which are warming to the idea of private backers – many of them overseas – that can help them weather the storm in the supermarket aisles. Last week, Hanover, Pennsylvania-based potato chip maker Utz agreed to be taken private by Germany’s Intersnack Group along with Utz’s founding families. The nearly $3 […]

By Yves Herman and Janis Laizans BORDEAUX, France, July 28 (Reuters) – France was bracing for its fourth major heatwave of the year on Tuesday, as soaring temperatures and tinder-dry conditions across the southwest piled pressure on crews battling a giant wildfire in the Bordeaux region. Temperatures in Bordeaux are forecast to reach 33 degrees Celsius (91 degrees Fahrenheit) during the day, around 7 degrees above the average high between […]

TOKYO, July 28 (Reuters) – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 struck Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. A tsunami warning for a wave measuring 1 m (3.28 feet) was issued after the earthquake, the JMA said. The Japanese government issued emergency earthquake warnings for Kumamoto, Nagasaki, Kagoshima, Fukuoka, Saga, Oita, and Miyazaki prefectures, all on Japan’s southern Kyushu island. Japan is one […]

By Mohi Narayan NEW DELHI, July 28 (Reuters) – The number of vessels passing through Bab el-Mandeb rose to 28 on Monday, a four-day high, while traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remained low, according to Kpler shipping data, amid optimism about a potential resolution to the U.S.-Iran conflict. Traffic was still below the month’s peak of 46 vessels recorded on July 14, the data showed. U.S. President Donald Trump […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Giants third baseman Casey Schmitt left Monday night’s game against the Milwaukee Brewers in the bottom of the second inning due to a left knee injury. Schmitt appeared to hurt his left leg after rounding first base following a single to right field. He showed discomfort and was grasping at his lower left leg after the play. Schmitt was able to walk off the […]

ROME (AP) — Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster spewed radiation across Europe and turned Italy off nuclear power, Premier Giorgia Meloni ’s government is laying the groundwork to bring it back as the country seeks to improve its energy security. The government is counting on a new generation of Italians who see nuclear power as a source of low-carbon electricity, a tool to help fight climate change and a […]