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  • US Postal Service halts China parcels after Trump tariffs

    Donald Trump has closed a loophole so low value parcels of goods such as clothing will now be taxed.

  • YAHOO POLL: How often do you watch movies in the cinema?

    Movie theatres are facing increasing challenges to stay profitable. Yahoo Singapore's poll gives you a chance to weigh in on a hot topic or relevant issue. Let your voice be heard and see how others feel!

  • Donald Trump's 'Patronizing' Reply To Afghan Reporter Sparks Anger Online

    The president drew criticism for his response during a press conference with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

  • UK says ‘Palestinians must be able to return home’ after Trump comments

    Both Labour and the Conservatives declined to offer a ‘running commentary’ on the US leader’s remarks.

  • UK electric car sales rise in January but lag behind mandate, industry data shows

    The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) reported that volumes of battery electric vehicles (BEV) rose by 41.6% year-on-year to rise to a 23.7% market share. "Affordability remains a major barrier to uptake, hence the need for compelling measures to boost demand, and not just from manufacturers," said SMMT Chief Mike Hawes, as the industry called for a halt on EV taxes to encourage more people to buy the low-emission vehicles.

  • FTSE 100 LIVE: Stocks head lower as Trump's trade war pushes gold prices to record high

    Gold is now up by more than 8% in the past month, adding to the record levels seen during 2024.

  • USPS suspends packages from China as Trump also closes 'Shein loophole‘

    U.S. president says he’s in ‘no hurry’ to defuse the new trade war between Washington and Beijing

  • Margaret Thatcher’s years in power to be made into opera

    Margaret Thatcher’s years in power are to be turned into an opera.

  • Trump’s plan for US to take over Gaza and make it ‘Riviera of the Middle East’ sparks outrage: Live

    ‘We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all unexploded bombs,’ US president says at White House press conference with Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu

  • Watch: MotoGP champion Jorge Martin in hospital after horror crash

    Reigning MotoGP champion Jorge Martin has been taken to hospital after highsiding twice from his bike in the opening hours of pre-season testing in Sepang, Malaysia on Wednesday.

  • Tech war: China's chip firms embrace DeepSeek in AI self-sufficiency drive

    DeepSeek has given China's artificial intelligence (AI) push a shot in the arm, as the country's chip developers and cloud service providers rush to support the start-up's increasingly popular models. Moore Threads Technology, a graphics processing unit (GPU) design company created by former Nvidia China general manager Zhang Jianzhong, said in a WeChat post on Tuesday that it would "pay tribute to DeepSeek" by "using locally-made GPUs to set China's AI ecosystem on fire". The chip firm said Dee

  • Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Billie Eilish team up for LA fire victim

    Meghan put a call out on behalf of a teen girl who had lost her home, and Billie stepped in to help. In a video posted to her social media channels, Meghan, 43, explained she had met a young girl whose most prized possession was a t-shirt she had bought at one of Billie's recent concerts. "About two or three weeks ago, when my husband and I were in Altadena, we went to a community where all the homes were left in ashes. I saw this young woman and I said, 'Oh my gosh, how old are you?'…”

  • MUN students charged with trespassing prepare for 5-day trial

    Sadie Mees and Devoney Ellis are two of the three students arrested at MUN on July 5. They say the arrest is challenging their Charter rights. (Danny Arsenault/CBC)Three Memorial University students were arrested and charged with trespassing in July after occupying the university's Arts and Administration building during a protest.Now they're preparing for a five-day trial in June where they say their Charter rights are at stake. Sadie Mees and Devoney Ellis are among the trio. They say the case

  • Guinea's vast Simandou mine on track to start delivering for Chinese investors

    After almost three decades of false starts, the massive Simandou iron ore mine in Guinea is on track to deliver a significant breakthrough this year to its Chinese investors and British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto. US-based rail manufacturer Wabtec has secured deals worth US$525 million to supply the locomotives that will deliver the first shipments from the Simandou mountain range in the remote forests of southeastern Guinea to the ports. Simandou, the world's largest known undeveloped re

  • Donald Trump downplays China's retaliatory tariffs and 'in no rush' to talk to Xi Jinping

    US President Donald Trump dismissed the implications of retaliatory measures that Beijing enacted against the United States following Washington's imposition of 10 per cent tariffs on imports from China, stating he is "in no rush" to talk to the country's president, Xi Jinping. "That's fine. It's fine," Trump told reporters on Tuesday who asked about Beijing's tit-for-tat response to the tariffs that took effect on Tuesday. "We're going to do very well against China and against everybody else. R

  • Battle of the bots: China, US scrap for top of the humanoid heap

    At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on January 7 - the tech sector's premier trade exhibition - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage for his keynote address. Weeks later, at the Spring Festival Gala - China's annual televised Lunar New Year extravaganza, watched by over a billion people - robotics firm Unitree put on a demo of a different sort. A group of H1 units, which the company touts as its "first universal humanoid robot", performed a folk dance synchronised with the aid of advanced cloud computing and motion control systems powered by artificial intelligence (AI) software.

  • EU shifting tone of stance on China as it prepares for frictions with US

    As the European Union braces for rocky ties with its ally the United States, its top official has left the door open for a thaw in relations with China. For the second time in a fortnight, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen - seen as the continent's most prominent China hawk - said there was space to deepen trade ties and even "find agreements" with Beijing, in "an era of hyper-competitive and hyper-transactional geopolitics". "We will keep de-risking our economic relationship -

  • DeepSeek vs Trump tariffs: how will China's markets react in the Year of the Snake?

    Investors returning to mainland China's markets on Wednesday after an eight-day Lunar New Year holiday have plenty to chew on - from Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek taking the world by storm to the US slapping tariffs on Chinese goods. While the market outlook remains cloudy because of the strained US-China ties, tech companies with a focus on AI are expected to jump on the back of developments from DeepSeek, according to analysts. Companies in export-oriented sectors such

  • US freezes funding for security mission tackling Haiti's gangs

    More than $13 million in U.S. funding for an international security force helping fight armed gangs in Haiti has been frozen under President Donald Trump's 90-day pause on foreign aid, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Powerful gangs, armed with weapons largely trafficked from the United States, have united in the Caribbean country's capital Port-au-Prince under a common alliance and now control most of the city and are expanding to nearby areas. The Multinational Security Support mission, while approved by the U.N. Security Council, is not a United Nations operation and currently relies on voluntary contributions.

  • Banco Santander (Brasil) S.A. (BSBR): An Oversold Bank Stock to Buy Right Now

    We recently compiled a list of the 10 Oversold Bank Stocks To Buy Right Now. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Banco Santander (Brasil) S.A. (NYSE:BSBR) stands against the other oversold bank stocks. Is the Banking Sector Embarking On a Two-Year Growth Cycle? On January 13, Tom Michaud, KBW CEO, […]