TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese authorities are investigating a Chinese-crewed ship suspected of severing an undersea communications cable in the latest such incident adding to tensions between Taipei and Beijing. Taiwan’s coast guard intercepted the Togolese-flagged cargo ship Hongtai in waters between its main island’s west coast and the outlying Penghu Islands early Tuesday, according […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chip Blackwell will be top of mind when the company releases its latest financial results Wednesday, with analysts eyeing future demand amid a Chinese upstart’s claim that it can train competitive AI models using far fewer resources. Wall Street expects Nvidia to report fourth-quarter adjusted earnings […]
TOKYO (AP) — Toyota announced plans to restructure its board on Tuesday in what it described as an attempt to bring in more diverse views and give a larger roles to auditors. Among six appointments is Christopher Reynolds, now an executive in the automaker’s North American operations. As a lawyer, and son of a Ford […]
BANGKOK (AP) — Shares opened higher in Europe but sagged Tuesday in Asia as worries over U.S.-China trade friction weighed on the outlook for the region. Dramatically shifting transatlantic relations under U.S. President Donald Trump, the United States split with its European allies by refusing to blame Russia for its invasion of Ukraine in votes […]
Tens of thousands of planes take off, land and perform touch-and-goes at the Marana Regional Airport in southern Arizona every year. Without an air traffic control tower, it’s a calculated dance that requires communication by pilots. Two small planes collided in midair over one of the runways on the outskirts of Tucson last week. One […]
BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip (AP) — When night falls over northern Gaza, much of the cityscape of collapsed buildings and piled wreckage turns pitch black. Living inside the ruins of their home, Rawia Tambora’s young sons get afraid of the dark, so she turns on a flashlight and her phone’s light to comfort them, for […]
SALFIT, West Bank (AP) — Order a Coke to wash down some hummus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank these days and chances are the waiter will shake his head disapprovingly — or worse, mutter “shame, shame” in Arabic — before suggesting the popular local alternative: a can of Chat Cola. Chat Cola — its red […]
Apple shareholders on Tuesday are expected to reject an attempt to pressure the technology trendsetter into scrapping its corporate programs designed to diversify its workforce. The proposal drafted by the National Center for Public Policy Research — a self-described conservative think tank — urges Apple to follow a litany of high-profile companies that have retreated […]
WINNIPEG — Exchange Income Corp. has entered into an agreement to buy Canadian North. The northern airline is set to be purchased for $205 million. Canadian North provides passenger and cargo service to 24 remote Canadian Arctic communities in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories through Ottawa and Edmonton, as well as dedicated charters in northern […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Nurses at Providence’s eight Oregon hospitals approved new contracts on Monday after over six weeks of strike, ending what the state nurses union has described as the largest health care strike in state history. Providence and hospital nurses represented by the Oregon Nurses Association union reached the tentative agreement last week, […]
