York County SC woman missing over a month found dead near Rock Hill, officials say

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Stocks drop, dollar rallies as Year of the Snake starts with bite
Stock markets in Asia and Europe sank and the dollar surged Monday after Donald Trump signed off huge tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico, and warned the European Union would be hit "pretty soon".Analysts at Oxford Economics said the tariffs could see Mexican inflation surge to six percent annually, from 4.2 percent in December, while the peso sank seven percent.
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Musk brands USAID 'criminal', Trump calls its leaders 'radical lunatics'
Elon Musk attacked the US Agency for International Development, calling it a "criminal organization" on Sunday, as President Donald Trump claimed the agency was "run by radical lunatics" and said he was considering its future.USAID has "been run by a bunch of radical lunatics, and we're getting them out... and then we'll make a decision (on its future)," Trump said Sunday without elaborating.
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Ukrainian troops lose ground with fewer fighters and exposed supply lines
A dire shortage of infantry troops and supply routes coming under Russian drone attacks are conspiring against Ukrainian forces in Pokrovsk, where decisive battles in the nearly three-year war are playing out — and time is running short. Ukrainian troops are losing ground around the crucial supply hub, which lies at the confluence of multiple highways leading to key cities in the eastern Donetsk region as well as an important railway station. Moscow is set on capturing as much territory as possible as the Trump administration is pushing for negotiations to end the war and recently froze foreign aid to Ukraine, a move that has shocked Ukrainian officials already apprehensive about the intentions of the new U.S. president, their most important ally.
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Australia braces for more destruction as deadly floods devastate northeast
Deadly floodwaters triggered by record rainfall in Australia’s northeast rose for a third day Monday as authorities warned flood-stricken communities to brace themselves for further destruction.
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EssilorLuxottica receives FDA clearance for its Nuance audio glasses
EssilorLuxottica said on Monday it received a green light from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its over-the-counter Nuance audio glasses. Nuance - which pairs hearing solutions with prescription glasses - will be available in the U.S. and in Italy in the first quarter of the year and in other European countries, including France, Germany and the UK, in the first half of 2025, a statement said.
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Fresh tremors shake top Greek tourist island Santorini
Fresh overnight tremors shook Greece's top tourist island Santorini, media reports said Monday, prompting people to sleep outdoors and others to leave by plane or ferry.Many left the island on flights or ferries, media reports said.
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South Africa's Ramaphosa to engage Trump over aid suspension
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday that he looked forward to engaging with Donald Trump after the U.S. president said he would cut off funding for South Africa, citing land confiscations. Trump said on Sunday, without citing evidence, that "South Africa is confiscating land" and "certain classes of people" were being treated "very badly" so he would cut funding until the matter was investigated. Ramaphosa signed into law a bill last month to make it easier for the state to expropriate land in the public interest, despite objections by some parties in his coalition government.
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China renews threat to retaliate against US tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war with Canada, Mexico and China is ramping up over the production and importation of the opiate fentanyl, along with trade surpluses and illegal border crossings by migrants from across the globe. Here is what Beijing says about it: What has been China's reaction so far? China has reiterated its threat to take “necessary countermeasures to defend its legitimate rights and interests” following Trump’s decision to impose 10% tariffs on China for allegedly doing too little to stem the production of precursor chemicals for fentanyl.
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Trump fired the latest tariff shot at China. Is Beijing prepared to make it a trade war?
President Donald Trump has finally made good on a campaign promise to raise tariffs on Chinese imports – announcing on Saturday duties of 10% on all Chinese goods coming in the country as part of sweeping trade measures that also targeted Mexico and Canada.
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SoftBank and OpenAI set up joint company to push artificial intelligence services
Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group and OpenAI stepped up their AI partnership Monday, setting up a 50-50 held company called SB OpenAI Japan. Cristal will first roll out in Son’s own SoftBank Group companies, which include Arm, a semiconductor and software company, and PayPay, an electronic payment service.
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At least 15 killed in car bomb explosion in northern Syria
At least 15 people were killed and dozens wounded Monday when a car bomb exploded in the outskirts of a northern Syrian city, local civil defense and a war monitor reported. The car on the outskirts of the city of Manbij detonated next to a vehicle carrying agricultural workers, killing 14 women and one man, the local Syrian civil defense reported. Manbij in northeastern Aleppo province continues to witness violence even after the downfall of President Bashar Assad in December, where Turkish-backed factions known as the Syrian National Army continue to clash with the U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
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OpenAI announces new 'deep research' tool for ChatGPT
US tech giant OpenAI on Monday unveiled a ChatGPT tool called "deep research" that can produce detailed reports, as China's DeepSeek chatbot heats up competition in the AI field.It comes as AI newcomer DeepSeek has sent Silicon Valley into a frenzy, with some calling its high performance and supposed low cost a wake-up call for US developers.
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South Korea appeals court upholds Samsung chief's fraud acquittal
Samsung Electronics chief Lee Jae-yong was cleared again Monday of a raft of charges linked to a controversial 2015 merger which prosecutors claimed was designed to seal his control of the South Korean tech giant.Lee was orginally cleared of the charges in a trial last year, but prosecutors appealed against the verdict.
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Rubio lays down ultimatum to Panama over canal
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday threatened action against Panama without immediate changes to reduce Chinese influence on the canal, but the country's leader insisted he was not afraid of a US invasion and offered talks."China's running the Panama Canal," Trump insisted Sunday.
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Emergency crews deployed on Santorini as an earthquake swarm worries Greek experts
Schools were closed and emergency crews deployed on the volcanic Greek island of Santorini on Monday after a spike in seismic activity raised concerns about a potentially powerful earthquake. Precautions were also ordered on several nearby Aegean Sea islands — all popular summer vacation destinations — after more than 200 undersea earthquakes were recorded in the area over the past three days. “These measures are precautionary, and authorities will remain vigilant,” Civil Protection Minister Vasilis Kikilias said late Sunday following an emergency government meeting in Athens.
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Two years on, construction jungle emerges from Antioch's quake-hit ruins
Whenever Sema Genc enters a room, the first place she looks is the ceiling: would it hold up in an earthquake, or would she be trapped under the rubble again? One of those was Genc, the NGO worker rescued from the rubble.
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Rising floodwaters force evacuations in eastern Australia
Fast-moving floodwaters rose Monday in northeastern Australia after forcing many to flee, blacking out homes, and sweeping away a chunk of a critical bridge.Aerial footage showed rural communities surrounded by the floodwaters, cut off from nearby roads.
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A police officer working on Pakistan's first polio drive of the year is killed by gunmen
A police officer working on Pakistan's first polio vaccination drive of the year was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen Monday, police said. Pakistan deployed thousands of police officers to protect health workers who go house-to-house to inoculate children and are targeted by militants who falsely claim the vaccination campaigns are a Western conspiracy to sterilize children.
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Hospitals in eastern Congo are crowded with wounded and exhausting their supplies
Hundreds of wounded people have poured into overcrowded hospitals in Goma, a major city in eastern Congo, as fighting rages on between government forces and the Rwanda-backed rebels who say they captured the city of around 2 million people. “They will get infected before we can treat them all,” said Florence Douet, an operating room nurse at Bethesda Hospital, as she attended to patients with varying degrees of injuries. Since the start of the M23 rebels’ offensive on Goma on Jan. 26, more than 700 people have been killed and nearly 3,000 have been wounded in the city and its vicinity, officials say.
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France's PM prepares to force budget through parliament
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou will on Monday try to force through his government's budget without a vote using a controversial parliamentary mechanism, which might lead to a no-confidence motion from the left.Bayrou's predecessor, Michel Barnier, was forced from office in a no-confidence vote in December after invoking the same article of the constitution to force through a controversial pension reform and social security budget.

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