HONG KONG (AP) — China’s exports jumped nearly 22% in the first two months of the year from a year earlier, powered by a surge in shipments of computer chips, autos and electronics. The export figures released by China’s customs agency on Tuesday were much better than economists had forecast. They far exceeded the 6.6% …
COPENHAGEN, March 10 (Reuters) – A disturbance has occurred on the Fenno-Skan 2 power connection between Finland and Sweden, Finnish grid…
March 10 (Reuters) – UAE’s foreign ministry condemned a drone attack on its consulate in Iraqi Kurdistan’s Erbil, it said in a statement early on Tuesday. Iraqi Kurdistan’s counter-terrorism service said late on Monday that it had downed three drones in Erbil, with debris from one of the drones falling near the UAE consulate. It …
BANGKOK, March 10 (Reuters) – Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has ordered civil servants to conserve energy amid an energy squeeze brought on by the conflict in the Middle East, a government spokesperson said on Tuesday, with measures including suspending overseas trips and using stairs instead of elevators. “The prime minister ordered that starting from …
ANKARA, March 10 (Reuters) – Turkey said on Tuesday that a U.S. Patriot air defence system was deployed to its southeast, near a NATO radar base, as part of steps by the alliance to boost air defences in the face of missile threats from the Iran war. It is being deployed to Malatya province, the …
It seems that a country divided on many fronts is finding common ground at the gas pumps
ATLANTA (AP) — Months after Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned from Congress after a falling out with President Donald Trump, voters in her Georgia district will vote for her successor in a special election Tuesday. With top candidates including Republicans Clay Fuller and Colton Moore and Democrat Shawn Harris, this round of voting could be only …
Visitors are flocking to Death Valley National Park in California and Nevada to take in a rare phenomenon known as a superbloom
By Fanny Potkin, Stanley Widianto and Ananda Teresia SINGAPORE/JAKARTA, March 10 (Reuters) – When police detained an Indonesian teenager accused of bombing his high-school campus in Jakarta in November, he had a life-size toy rifle inscribed with “welcome to hell” and the names of white supremacist mass killers. The November 7 attack, which injured 96 …
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Democrats on Tuesday will decide between longtime U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson and his 34-year-old primary challenger in a race that reflects generational struggle for control of the party. Thompson, a 78-year-old civil rights leader who chaired the House Jan. 6 Committee and serves as a ranking member on the House …