Brent crude futures fell 26 cents, or 0.3%, to $78.74 a barrel at 0427 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) eased 23 cents, or 0.3%, to $75.21. In the prior session, Brent futures settled at $79.00 in a fifth straight day of losses and WTI futures settled at $75.44 in a fourth consecutive […]
Intense rainfall on Monday in a mountainous area near Pekalongan city in Central Java province sparked the landslide, collapsing bridges and burying cars and houses. “Per this morning, we have found 21 victims who died, and there are five more who are still being searched,” Budiono, head of the search and rescue agency from nearby […]
The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) said it would ask prosecutors to indict Yoon over allegations he was the ringleader of an insurrection, for abuse of his authority and obstructing others from exercising their rights. Under the law, the CIO only has the authority to investigate and must hand cases over to prosecutors […]
The Hughes fire about 50 miles (80 km) north of Los Angeles further taxed firefighters in the region who have managed to bring two major fires in the metropolitan area largely under control. In just a few hours on Wednesday, the new fire grew to two-thirds the size of the Eaton Fire, one of the […]
India, a strategic partner of the United States in its efforts to counter China, is keen to enhance trade relations with the U.S. and make it easier for its citizens to get skilled worker visas, two topics that will be on the agenda if the leaders meet, the sources said. Trump’s return to the White […]
The company released Doubao-1.5-pro, an upgrade to its flagship AI model, which it claims outperforms OpenAI’s o1 in AIME, a benchmark test that measures how well AI models understand and respond to complex instructions. ByteDance’s release comes after Chinese AI startup DeepSeek rolled out an open-source reasoning model called DeepSeek-R1 on Monday that it said […]
The defense ministry said in a statement that its forces had taken the village of Zapadne on the western bank of the Oskil River, which for a long time formed the front line between the armies. Russia has managed to establish a bridgehead on the western bank this year and Zapadne is located about 4 […]
The joint venture, called Stargate, plans to invest $500 billion to help the United States stay ahead of China and other rivals in the global AI race, Trump said at the White House on Tuesday. Donald Trump touts $500 billion AI project The venture plans to deploy $100 billion immediately, with the remaining investment occurring […]
Under a plan jointly released by six financial regulators including the securities regulator, big state-owned insurance companies will be directed to raise both the size and proportion of their investments in Chinese stocks listed on the mainland and equity funds. The regulators will implement a long-term performance evaluation for state-owned insurance companies, with the annual […]
In a separate incident, two senior Iranian Supreme Court judges involved in handling espionage and terrorism cases were shot dead in the capital Tehran on January 18, Iran’s judiciary said. It said the attacker killed himself after opening fire at the judges inside the Supreme Court, and that a bodyguard of one of the judges […]
