March 25 (Reuters) – Russian attacks damaged two energy facilities in Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv region, leaving close to 212,000 consumers without power, a regional electricity distribution company said on Wednesday. Chernihivoblenergo said nearly 150,000 consumers in the city of Chernihiv and the surrounding district were without power after a Russian attack damaged an energy facility …
BEIJING, March 25 – China is willing to deepen cooperation with Cameroon in infrastructure, energy and agriculture, Commerce Minister Wang Wentao told his Cameroonian counterpart in the central African nation’s capital on Tuesday. The two met on the sidelines of a gathering of World Trade Organization trade ministers in Yaounde, according to a statement released by …
By Ben Blanchard and Yimou Lee TAIPEI, March 25 (Reuters) – Taiwan fears China will exploit the distraction of the United States by its war in the Middle East, with state media citing examples from the conflict to cast doubt on the efficiency of U.S. weapons the island would use to repel any invasion. One …
March 26 (Reuters) – Win Zaw is among five of a Myanmar family who fan out on motorcycles most nights from their small village in the rice-growing Irrawaddy delta to queue at fuel depots that might yield a few jerry cans of diesel for his tractor. “Some even sleep there overnight,” said the farmer, adding …
BAGHDAD, March 25 (Reuters) – Seven Iraqi soldiers were killed and 13 others wounded in an airstrike on a site belonging to Iraq’s Shi’ite Popular Mobilization Forces near an army medical centre in western Anbar, security sources and the defence ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry said the strike, which took place at around 0900 …
STOCKHOLM, March 25 (Reuters) – A drone flew into Estonian airspace from Russia early on Wednesday morning and slammed into a chimney at a local power station, the Baltic country’s Internal Security Service told public broadcaster ERR. There were no reports of injuries or damage to the power station, Estonian authorities said. Two drones also …
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI is shutting down its social media app Sora, which went viral last fall as a place to share short-form videos generated by artificial intelligence but also raised alarms in Hollywood and elsewhere. OpenAI said in a brief social media message Tuesday that it was “saying goodbye to the Sora app” …
ISINYA, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s flower industry has reported weekly losses of up to $1.4 million since the Iran war began, with growers attributing the losses to a decline in demand and shipping disruptions. The Kenya Flower Council, a private sector organization representing growers and exporters of cut flowers and ornamentals in Kenya, said Tuesday …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department’s investigation of a $2.5 billion renovation project at the Federal Reserve didn’t find any evidence of a crime, a federal prosecutor privately conceded under questioning by a skeptical judge earlier this month, according to a transcript of the sealed hearing. That admission by Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Massucco came …
In a small office in a tiny school district in a county with no traffic signal, Michelle Wesner sits at her desk looking worried. On her computer screen is an application for an $80,000 state grant for a welding career tech program that the superintendent knows her 200 kids at Posen Consolidated Schools desperately need. …