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Wildfires, heatwaves pose growing fiscal risk to Greece, PM adviser says

Wildfires and heatwaves pose a growing medium- and long-term fiscal risk for Greece and the wider region, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said, as the government boosts investment to shore up its tourism-dependent economy.Michael Arghyrou, the prime minister's chief economic adviser, said Athens was pursuing investments in water and energy infrastructure in tourism hotspots while examining measures to improve insurance coverage against climate-related losses.• "These events are becoming a more significant and, in many respects, more frequent and severe risk phenomenon

IEA slashes 2026 supply forecast as Hormuz reopening remains elusive

Putin says Russia will respond in kind if EU nations seize Russian vessels

Bank of America launches $250 billion initiative for US tech, energy infrastructure

Bank of America said on Wednesday it plans to deploy $250 billion through July next year to support U.S. digital and infrastructure projects, an initiative it says will bolster the country's economic growth and help create tens of thousands of jobs.The Wall Street bank's "Critical Infrastructure Finance Initiative," launched on the heels of the nation's 250th anniversary celebrations, will include primary market lending, investments, capital markets services, and banking and advisory offerings.The announcement underscores how major U.S. financial institutions are seeking to capitalize on a do

Hedge funds upped short AI bets in July, Hazeltree says

Iran to join BRICS development bank soon, central bank governor says

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Taiwan's Foxconn reports 35% rise in Q2 profit on AI demand, beats forecasts

Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, reported on Wednesday a 35% rise in second-quarter profit, beating analyst forecasts, on continued strong demand for AI, which it predicted would drive growth this year.Net profit for the April to June period for Nvidia's biggest server maker and Apple's top iPhone assembler was T$59.97 billion ($1.86 billion), versus an LSEG consensus estimate of T$58.8 billion and compared with T$44.4 billion a year earlier.In an earnings release, it stuck to its previous forecast of "strong" growth for revenue this year and said it also saw

India says border peace critical to ties with China amid reports of military tensions

Nigeria's EV ambitions run into reality of weak electricity supply

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John Gotti’s grandson kept trying to delay prison to donate kidney to mother. A judge said enough.

Late mob boss John Gotti ’s reality TV star grandson has reported to federal prison after trying to stave off his sentence on fraud charges by saying he was going to donate a kidney to his ailing mother, Victoria Gotti. The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Tuesday that Carmine Agnello began his 15-month prison term the previous day at the Federal Correctional Institution Fairton in southern New Jersey. Agnello, who starred on “ Growing Up Gotti ” in the mid-2000s, was originally scheduled to report to prison in July. But U.S. District Court Judge Nusrat C

After Trump plane ruse, WHCA presses White House on press pool safeguards

The White House Correspondents’ Association has asked President Donald Trump’s administration to “work with us on a protocol for handling extraordinary security circumstances in the future,” now that his secret plane switch last month has been revealed by leaks to news organizations.Fox News anchor and senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich, who is currently serving as president of the group, met with Trump aides about the matter on Tuesday and relayed the press corps’ concerns about the subterfuge.The so-called “press pool,” which is meant to travel with the US preside

What to expect in Wisconsin’s state primary

David Crowley wins Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor over progressive Francesca Hong

Tuesday's takeaways: No clear direction for Wisconsin Democrats

In a race that showcased Democrats’ struggle between the ideological left and center, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley managed a razor-thin victory over his democratic socialist challenger. The race was so close that neither side could claim a decisive victory. In other contests, experience was rewarded in two governors’ races and voters went for generational change in voting out a House incumbent. For Republicans, a contest to replace the late Sen. Lindsey Graham pitted his sister, Darline Graham, against far more experienced candidates.

More Americans are having a harder time keeping up with their home and car payments

More Americans are falling even further behind on their home and car loans than at any time in the past decade, new data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York showed Tuesday.A greater share of people went at least 30 days late on their mortgage payments in the second quarter of this year than in any quarter since 2015, according to the New York Fed’s latest Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit. More also went into serious delinquency – or 90 days late or more – on their car payments during the same time period than at any quarter since 2010.However, the latest data underscor

Former US Marine held in Russia for more than 4 years on disputed charges has been released

The Latest: Democratic socialist is neck and neck with moderate in Wisconsin governor primary

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Looking to see the solar eclipse from North America? Here's where and when to catch a sliver

Sorry, North America. After winning the cosmic lottery with a pair of coast-to-coast total solar eclipses, now it’s Europe’s turn. But look skyward anyway Wednesday and, if you’re far enough north in the U.S. and Canada, you might savor a partial eclipse as the moon nibbles away at the sun. Totality will begin near the North Pole, then streak southward across Greenland, Iceland, Spain and a patch of Portugal. Daytime darkness won’t last more than a couple minutes at best — shrimpy compared with North America’s epic 2024 eclipse — but it is continental

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Medicaid says it will stop paying for some gender-affirming care for transgender minors

President Donald Trump's administration said that Medicaid will stop paying for gender-affirming surgeries and hormone treatments for transgender minors and the state Children's Health Insurance Program won't pay for the treatments for those under 19. The announcement is the latest in a series of policies from the administration aimed at transgender people that began the day Trump returned to office last year. The policy is to take effect Oct. 13. It is not clear how much taxpayer funding is going to cover gender-affirming treatments for

Influencer killings mount in Mexico as rival cartel factions wage a bloody fight

Syria sentences absent Bashar al-Assad to death over killings and torture

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Relentless storms leave at least 1 dead, over a million without power across Midwest and Mid-Atlantic

A long-lasting line of storms with damaging winds — known as a derecho — tore across the Midwest Tuesday while other powerful storms hit the central Appalachians. It’s the latest in a multiday severe weather and flash flood threat that has killed at least one person and knocked out power for over one million homes and businesses.⛈️☔️In one of the impacted areas? Track the storms, find out your local risk and get more detailed timing from meteorologists in the CNN Weather app⛈️☔️Clusters of storms have sparked severe thunderstorm, flash flood and tornado warnings across th

Colombia quake death toll tops 250 as rescuers race to find survivors

By Nelson Bocanegra, Luis Jaime Acosta and Julia Symmes CobbPEREIRA/CALI, Colombia, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Rescue crews on Tuesday dug through mountains of rubble in western Colombia, shouting for quiet so they could listen for survivors still trapped under the buildings that collapsed in a powerful earthquake estimated to have killed at least 250 people.The 7.4-magnitude quake, the most devastating to strike Colombia this century, tore through its coffee-growing heartland early on Monday, leaving apartment blocks, homes, schools and health centers cracked, leaning or flattened.Separate reports fr

Security concerns prompted Trump to secretly change planes in Turkey, official says

A tropical depression could soon form in the Atlantic — but can it survive El Niño’s hostile conditions?

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The Latest: Democratic socialist is neck and neck with moderate in Wisconsin governor primary

Progressive Democrats get another win in Minnesota US Senate primary

Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan won the Minnesota Democratic Senate primary in the latest victory for an insurgent progressive over the party’s establishment

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Deadline passes for Rep. Max Miller to be replaced on Ohio ballot as he faces domestic abuse claims

Embattled Republican Rep. Max Miller is staying in the race for his Ohio congressional district

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Flock cameras are getting mobbed

Opulent brides are funding India’s global fashion play

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Taco Bell sales fell after cyclospora outbreak

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In record heat, a warming world has come to rely on China to stay cool

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CNN Poll: A third of Democrats now identify as democratic socialists

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New York City has paused construction at several office-to-apartment conversions since Pfizer tower structural problems

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Trump unveils another project as polling shows his DC construction is unpopular

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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