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Brook Dane, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, joins Yahoo Finance's The First Trade to discuss the overall tech sector and more.
Brook Dane, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, joins Yahoo Finance's The First Trade to discuss the overall tech sector and more.
Asian markets diverged Friday following a mixed day on Wall Street, with data showing a continued fall in US inflation unable to relight the buying that characterised much of November.While Wall Street had a mixed night, November was a strong month, with the Nasdaq and S&P 500 both up around 10 percent.
Asian shares declined on Friday even after Wall Street closed out its best month of the year with big gains in November. U.S. futures rose while oil prices continued to drop despite the latest extension of OPEC’s production cuts. U.S. benchmark crude oil was down 10 cents at $75.86 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The mother of boxing’s last undisputed world heavyweight champions passed away on Thursday aged 85
Two Nevada State Police Troopers died after they were run over in a hit-and-run Thursday while checking on a motorist on a Vegas freeway, police said.
Amanda Knox welcomed her second child, a baby boy named Echo. She announced the news on her podcast, "Younglings," and said the baby was born on Sept. 23.
Yevhen Tkachov, a volunteer aid worker and devout Pentecostal from Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, spent much of his life travelling to the world's war zones helping civilians in need. "Right now I think it makes the most sense to help my own people," said the 54-year-old, who is also a qualified veterinarian, after making his daily dash to deliver aid to the residents of Chasiv Yar, a once-sleepy, tree-lined town of 12,000 where he grew up. Like most people from Chasiv Yar, Tkachov has moved further from the fighting though some remain.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom duked it out in a roughly two-hour debate on Thursday on Fox News, with Sean Hannity as the moderator.
The unfinished Colne Valley Viaduct traces a gentle curve over several lakes northwest of London, a picturesque symbol that belies the ugly debate over the ambitious but expensive HS2 train line. Completion of the Colne Valley Viaduct and Chiltern Tunnel section is scheduled for November 2025.
On issues from human rights to Ukraine, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's record has raised alarm bells in Washington, but each time US officials decided the concerns should not derail the relationship.Curtis said that Biden "appears to want to compartmentalize this issue from the broader strategic relationship."
At a jail in northwestern Spain, a sole female inmate played football with 21 male convicts, part of a push towards mixed prison living that remains rare in Europe.Elsewhere in Europe, mixed jail blocks are not common.
Israel announced a resumption of combat in Gaza on Friday, carrying out a series of airstrikes across the territory, as a truce expired with no agreement to extend it.On Thursday, US top diplomat Antony Blinken, meeting Israeli and Palestinian officials, called for the pause in hostilities to be extended, and warned any resumption of combat must protect Palestinian civilians.
There was no trace of Hanan Yablonka — not on the 42-year-old Israeli's social media accounts nor on his phone, found in the bullet-riddled car he and three friends tried to flee in after Hamas militants attacked the music festival they were attending in southern Israel. “It’s a big nightmare," Yablonka's niece, Emanuel Abady, told The Associated Press.
A brazen murder-for-hire plot against a U.S. citizen, which authorities say was directed by an Indian government official, outwardly seems like a development that could upend the fragile new U.S.-India partnership. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said the unnamed Indian official, whose responsibilities include security and intelligence, and Indian national Nikhil Gupta, 52, plotted this summer to kill a New York City resident who advocated for a sovereign Sikh state in northern India. They did so - exchanging messages with an undercover DEA agent about the planned assassination - even as President Joe Biden was honoring Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a state visit to the White House on June 22.
A former Marine pleaded guilty Thursday in a 2022 firebombing attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic in California, federal prosecutors said.
Beijing has sponsored cut-price trips to China for hundreds of Taiwanese politicians ahead of key elections on the island, according to Taiwan sources and documents, unnerving officials with a broad campaign that one called "election interference". President Tsai Ing-wen and other Taiwan officials have warned that China might try to sway voters toward candidates seeking closer ties with Beijing in the elections, which could define the island's relations with China. Beijing, which claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own and has ramped up military and political pressure to force the island to accept its sovereignty, frames the Jan. 13 presidential and legislative elections as a choice between "peace and war", calling the ruling party dangerous separatists and urging Taiwanese to make the "right choice".
International climate talks turned to a power game on Friday as dozens of world leaders including the Saudi crown prince and India's prime minister were to speak, but two of the world's most powerful men — President Joe Biden of the U.S. and China's President Xi Jinping — were glaringly absent. Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, a top oil producer, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, whose biggest cities are regularly choked under poor air, were among more than 130 world leaders set to address the United Nations climate conference in Dubai over the next two days.
The negotiations, called Conference of Parties, are nearly two weeks long and in their 28th iteration in Dubai. Currently, temperatures have increased about 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit).
The temporary cease-fire expired Friday with neither side announcing that it was being extended.
Malaysia has invited China's President Xi Jingping to visit, its ambassador to Beijing said on Friday, as the Southeast Asian country also seeks to boost the number of Chinese tourists to five million a year to fuel economic growth. China and Malaysia will mark the 50th anniversary of their bilateral diplomatic relations next year, and Malaysia recently announced tourists from China would be able to travel visa free for 30 days, a move mirroring Thailand. Government data showed Malaysia welcomed 498,540 Chinese tourists in the six months to June this year, a figure almost a third of pre-pandemic levels.
In the first, on July 20, a woman squats in the thick mud in Raigad, India, as she peers out from a plastic tarp that covers her body. It is from March 2, on the beach in Gaza City — a starkly different Gaza City than the one its residents are experiencing today. The mission of photojournalism is to capture moments that represent — and, at their best, truly reveal — the endless spectrum of the human experience.