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December 25, 2024

Former Republican David Jolly launches long-shot bid for Florida governor as a Democrat
Democrats face a huge uphill climb in 2026 to retake Florida’s governorship for the first time in more than two decades, but David Jolly says he is up to the challenge. Jolly, a former Republican congressman who left the party in large part because of his opposition to President Donald Trump, is announcing Thursday that…
22 crew members rescued from lifeboat in North Pacific after ship carrying 3,000 cars catches fire
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The crew of a cargo ship carrying 3,000 vehicles to Mexico, including 800 electric vehicles, abandoned ship after they could not control a fire aboard the vessel in waters off Alaska’s Aleutian island chain. A large plume of smoke was initially seen at the ship’s stern coming from the deck loaded with…
Weather to remain hot and humid today
KARACHI: The Karachi city is expected to experience another day of hot and humid weather. According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department, the maximum temperature may rise up to 36°C, while the minimum temperature recorded earlier was 29.6°C. The humidity level in the air has been recorded at 60%, which is likely to intensify the feeling…
Australian murder suspect is cross-examined over poisonous mushroom meal
SYDNEY — An Australian woman accused of using poisonous mushrooms to murder three elderly relatives of her estranged husband was cross-examined by the prosecution on Thursday, denying she had measured a “fatal dose” on her kitchen scales. Erin Patterson, 50, is charged with the July 2023 murders of her mother-in-law Gail Patterson, father-in-law Donald Patterson…
The clock is ticking on South Korea’s new president — even on Day 1
William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of “Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan’s Lost Decades.” It took Lee Jae-myung three hard-fought runs at the South Korean presidency to finally prevail this week. Yet Lee will quickly find that winning the job was the easy part.
Shein and Temu see U.S. demand plunge on ‘de minimis’ trade loophole closure
Use of low-cost e-commerce giants Temu and Shein has slowed significantly in the key U.S. market amid President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports and the closure of the de minimis loophole, new data shows. Temu’s U.S. daily active users (DAUs) dropped 52% in May versus March, before Trump’s tariffs were announced, while those at…
Israeli forces recover bodies of 2 hostages with U.S. citizenship held in Gaza
Israeli forces have recovered the bodies of two hostages with dual Israeli-U.S. citizenship, Judith Weinstein-Haggai and Gadi Haggai, a married couple whose remains were being held by Hamas in Gaza since the beginning of the war there in October 2023. The Israeli milit and Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security agency, recovered the bodies of Weinstein-Haggai,…
Auto assembler Handal rides China’s EV expansion into Indonesia
BEKASI, Indonesia — By any stretch of the imagination, vehicle assembler Handal Indonesia Motor is not a major player in the domestic auto market. Its one plant, in Bakasi just outside Jakarta, has an annual capacity of 14,000 units, just 1.6% of national sales last year. But it has grand ambitions. And these are an indicator of…
Citigroup to cut around 3,500 tech jobs in China
HONG KONG — Citigroup will axe around 3,500 tech jobs in its China Citi Solution Centers in Shanghai and Dalian as part of efforts to simplify its global operations, the company announced on Thursday. While based in China, workers in these positions support Citi’s global business. The reduction is expected to be completed by the…