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Southeast Asian leaders denounce violence in Myanmar and extend ban on its leader

Southeast Asian leaders said Sunday that Myanmar has failed to comply with a 2021 peace plan and that its military and other armed groups continue to attack civilians, prompting them to extend a ban on Myanmar's leader attending the bloc's annual summits. The stern rebuke by leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, who opened their annual summit meetings in the Philippine capital on Sunday, came after a review of the progress on the five-point peace plan by the country's military-backed government. Myanmar is a member of the 11-nation regional bloc. A

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Restive pro-Russian Moldovan region holds elections

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Diamondback nears $5 billion deal to buy drilling portfolio from Double Eagle, FT says

US shale producer Diamondback Energy is nearing a roughly $5 billion deal to acquire a drilling portfolio from Texas-based energy producer Double Eagle, expanding its footprint in the oil-rich Permian Basin in Texas, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the matter.Here are some details:• As part of the deal, Diamondback will pay about $5 billion to buy Double Eagle V, which is backed by private equity firm EnCap Investments, FT said• Reuters could not immediately verify the report. Diamondback, Double Eagle and EnCap did not immediately respond to requests for comme

Bessent says Nvidia must 'go outside the company' to find new CEO

Indonesia president conveys apology to Singapore, Malaysia over wildfire haze

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Russian diesel under Trump deal struggles to reach US market amid legal fears and criticism

More than a month after President Donald Trump announced a surprise deal to import Russian diesel, the oil has struggled to reach the US market amid outrage and legal concerns.Several oil tankers that departed from a key Russian oil-loading port — and are believed to be laden with diesel — are no longer bound for the US, according to ship tracking data from MarineTraffic, and US businesses and ports have steered clear of accepting Russian diesel for fear of legal and reputational risks, experts told CNN.Bipartisan lawmakers and European allies expressed outrage at the agreement that Trump

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Estonia to shut its border with Russia, blaming Moscow for foiled arson plot

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Lutnick under fire: How Trump’s commerce secretary cultivated Nvidia’s CEO while chip controls slipped

The first call, as Jensen Huang remembers it, came from Howard Lutnick.It was around the start of Donald Trump’s second term, and Lutnick was preparing to become his Commerce Secretary. His message to the head of Nvidia was simple: whenever you need the president, call us.Recounting the call on Joe Rogan’s podcast last December, Huang remembered fondly that Lutnick had called him and his company “a national treasure.”Two years later, Huang has resigned from Nvidia and Lutnick is under intense scrutiny for what some Trump advisers see as inaction in placing limits on US chip exports to

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Police lift evacuation order issued after explosive device found at Illinois ethanol plant, officials say

An explosive device found at a central Illinois ethanol plant on Friday forced thousands of people to evacuate a city’s downtown area for a day as investigators searched a sprawling industrial facility to rule out any further threats, police said.By Saturday afternoon, about 24 hours later, police lifted the evacuation order and canceled a one-mile blast radius after investigators completed a search of the facility.The device was found at the BioUrja Renewables facility in Peoria, a city of 110,000 people about 130 miles southwest of Chicago. The plant is several floors and more than 44 foot

Survivors of the deadly Brooklyn building collapse recall shock, terror and grief

Kreiss-Tomkins becomes first Democrat since 1998 elected governor in Alaska

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Rubio says more work to do and downplays election losses amid speculation about political future

Amid speculation about his political future, Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared that there is more work to be done as he downplayed Republicans’ losses in the midterm elections.“We have much more to do over the next two, the next six, the next 20 years. Great things that last are built in decades, not election cycles,” Rubio said in an address to the conservative Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention in Washington, DC, on Friday evening.Rubio has faced mounting questions about whether he will seek the presidency in 2028, particularly in the wake of last week’s midterm

Wall St gives up early gains as tech stocks slide on Nvidia turmoil

The major US stock indexes gave back their gains shortly after market open on Friday, with tech stocks under renewed pressure as investors fretted over the potential fallout of the controversy surrounding Nvidia.Data that showed October producer prices were slightly softer than expected, did little to ease sentiment.At 10:08 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 96.34 points, or 0.18%, to 52,200.75, the S&P 500 lost 53.03 points, or 0.70%, to 7,539.37, and the Nasdaq Composite lost 273.08 points, or 1.08%, to 25,093.01. Declining issues outnumbered advancers by a 1.28-to-1 ratio

Republican Lauren Boebert, a colorful conservative, loses reelection bid in Colorado, according to US media

Incoming House Speaker Jeffries heckled at Democratic conference

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UK's Prince William to be joined by wife Kate for visit to India

Kate, Britain's Princess of Wales, will undertake her biggest foreign trip since having treatment for cancer when she joins her husband Prince William in India for his annual Earthshot Prize awards this week.Heir-to-the-throne William, 44, and Kate are flying out for a series of events across Mumbai during a three-day visit that includes Tuesday's awards ceremony.For Kate, 44, the trip marks her most high-profile overseas visit since she had preventative chemotherapy for an unspecified form of cancer in 2024. While she is now in remission, she says the illness still impacts her life.Willia

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US floated idea of Ukraine swapping land for NATO membership, Zelensky says

The United States floated the idea of Ukraine ceding the eastern Donbas region to Russia in exchange for NATO membership during recent talks, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.Zelensky told journalists Friday that US negotiators had put the question and that it was the “first time” such a proposal has been raised. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has long coveted the region, while he has cited possible NATO membership for Ukraine as a reason for launching his full-scale invasion in 2022.Much of the Donbas is controlled by Russia, although Moscow’s grinding ground offen

How the Nvidia scandal lifted the curtain on a loophole that’s giving China access to US chips

Ole Miss defends handling of travel issues after Oklahoma AD blasts postponement

Russian ambassador to US dies suddenly after suffering chronic illness, foreign ministry says

Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Alexander Darchiev, died in Moscow aged 66, after struggling with a chronic illness, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.Darchiev “passed away suddenly,” the ministry said in a statement, describing him as an “exceptional professional.”“Alexander Darchiev served in one of the most demanding areas of Russian foreign policy,” the ministry’s statement added. “We extend our deepest and most heartfelt condolences to Alexander Darchiev’s family and loved ones.”The Russian ambassador had left the embassy in Washington, DC befo

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Trump to meet with China’s Xi and Russia’s Putin at historic trilateral sit-down on nuclear non-proliferation

President Donald Trump will meet jointly this week with China’s leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the White House said Friday, a first-ever trilateral sit-down between the leaders of the three countries.The meeting, on the sidelines of the APEC summit in China, will focus on nuclear non-proliferation, a topic Trump has said he believes could yield a new agreement between the world’s biggest nuclear-armed states.“The President has made it clear that, among other topics, he will discuss the reduction of nuclear weapons in the world. This proliferation, President Trump

Hours-long halt to US flights leaves travelers frustrated, anxious

US Air Force responds to suspected drone activity over UK airbase

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After blue wave, Federalist Society is ready to move on from Trump

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Democratic socialists in New York formally urge Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for president

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‘Separating wants and needs’: Milwaukee couple reconsider their financial habits

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Old air traffic control equipment regularly disrupts US flights

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Trump administration blames ‘overloaded’ systems for ground stop after FAA lets flights resume

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FAA issues nationwide ground stop for all flights

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The Latest: FAA lifts nationwide ground stop on flights that halted travel across the US

The Federal Aviation Administration says airplane departures can resume after the agency lifted a nationwide ground stop caused by communications problems

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls