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June 14, 2025

China’s exports rise 5.8% in June as trade truce with US holds
HONG KONG — China’s export machine kept humming in June, as front-loading and trade diversion to other countries helped cushion the blow from U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war on the world’s second-largest economy. Outbound shipments rose 5.8% from a year ago to $325 billion in June, up from a 4.8% expansion in May, driven…
Trump says US will send Patriot missiles to Ukraine
Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Mland on Sunday. Washington: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he will send Patriot air defense missiles to Ukraine, saying they are necess to defend the country because Russian President Vladimir Putin “talks nice but then he bombs everybody in the evening.” Trump did not give…
JUI-F’s Zia ur Rehman accepts CM Gandapur’s election challenge
PESHAWAR: Engineer Zia ur Rehman, the younger brother of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazal ur Rehman, has accepted the electoral challenge thrown by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur. In a video statement, Zia ur Rehman responded directly to the chief minister, stating, “Ali Amin Gandapur, your challenge is accepted. You are not…
Iranian president suffers minor injuries in last month conflict
Tehran: Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian sustained minor injuries in an Israeli air strike targeting a meeting of the Supreme National Security Council in Tehran on June 15. A senior Iranian official confirmed the attack, describing it as an attempt to eliminate the top leadership of the government. The official, speaking anonymously to international media, stated,…
Citizen Watch to market high-end products in North America
TOKYO — Citizen Watch will step up its marketing in North America, President and CEO Yoshitaka Oji told Nikkei in an interview. The Japanese watchmaker over the next couple of years will introduce Attesa and The Citizen, high-priced brands sold mostly in Japan, to the North American market on a full-scale basis. The company announced…
Myanmar milit’s election plan faces widespread boycott
YANGON — Myanmar’s milit is pressing ahead with a plan to hold a general election in the next six months, despite opposition from its ASEAN neighbors and a likely outcome that analysts say will not end the civil war and ethnic divisions ravaging the country. No date has been announced, but voting will be held…
Nicotine pouch poisonings soar in babies and toddlers
The number of young children sickened after getting their little hands on nicotine products like pouches and vape e-liquids has skyrocketed in recent years. From 2010 through 2023, U.S. poison centers reported 134,663 cases of nicotine poisonings among kids under age 6, according to a study published Monday in Pediatrics, a journal of the American…
Hong Kong banks tighten credit as bad property loans grow
HONG KONG — More than five years ago, when New World Development asked banks in Hong Kong for a billion-dollar syndicated loan to fund the construction of a lavish shopping mall by the city’s airport, banks had to fight for a share of the deal — and they did not ask for collateral. For years, blue-chip…
NBC’s Morgan Chesky, a Kerrville native, to host Reddit AMA on Texas floods
The devastation in Texas’ Hill Country — where flash flooding killed at least 132 people while more than 160 remain missing — has been especially poignant for NBC News correspondent Morgan Chesky, a Kerrville native. Chesky grew up just two blocks from the Guadalupe River, which swelled during the July 4th floods and swept away…