RIO DE JANEIRO – When summer heat comes to the Arara neighborhood in northern Rio, it lingers, baking the red brick and concrete that make up many of the buildings long after the sun has gone down. Luis Cassiano, who’s lived here more than 30 years, says he’s getting worried as heat waves become more…
Sustainability has had a pretty rough go of it these last few years. Despite major strides in the right direction, the push for a greener future has been dealt several devastating blows from a fraught supply chain, economic headwinds and political setbacks. Fashion, a notoriously unfriendly industry for the environment, is no exception. Last week,…
If the stock market were a Halloween movie, we could call it The Bubble that Ate Wall Street. Or perhaps The Bubble that Ate Wall Street 2, because it is a sequel – the second time in the past generation that we have seen technological euphoria cloud minds and drive U.S. stocks to absurdly high…
China’s factory activity slump worsened in October, reaching its longest decline in more than nine years as a deepening economic slowdown sets in during the final quarter. The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index was 49, versus 49.8 in September, the National Bureau of Statistics said Friday. The median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg was…
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Việt Nam Central Committee Tô Lâm. VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI – General Secretary of the Communist Party of Việt Nam Central Committee Tô Lâm and his spouse, along with a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation, will make an official visit to the…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett said Sunday he, too, has “felt pain” from China refusing to buy U.S.-grown soybeans during a trade conflict with President Donald Trump because “I’m actually a soybean farmer.” Bessent’s comment came during an interview with ABC News’ “This Week,” where he said that trade negotiations with China in the past two…
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Hurricane Melissa was strengthening rapidly late Saturday, threatening to become a major hurricane and cause catastrophic flooding in the northern Caribbean, including Haiti and Jamaica. Melissa became a hurricane on Saturday, prompting forecasters to issue a hurricane warning for Jamaica, saying it could reach the island as a major storm early next…
Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Vote yes on Prop. 50to foil Trump’s policies In the past 10 days, President Trump has demonstrated why Californians must vote for Proposition 50, which he opposes. Trump has: • Released an AI video of himself wearing a crown while flying…
It said the ‘sweeping package’ would ‘boost energy development, modernise land and resource management’ in Alaska. The Trump administration has finalised plans to allow oil and gas drilling in a national wildlife refuge spanning pristine Indigenous land in Alaska, reigniting long-simmering tensions about conserving one of the United States’s environmental jewels. The US Department of…
China is quickly becoming the global leader in nuclear power, with nearly as many reactors under construction as the rest of the world combined. While its dominance of solar panels and electric vehicles is well known, China is also building nuclear plants at an extraordinary pace. By 2030, China’s nuclear capacity is set to surpass…