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A line of trucks parked outside a shipping terminal in Yokohama, Japan, on Monday, Dec. 4, 2023.  Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japan’s exports posted a 3.1% rise in October compared to a year ago, rebounding from a fall in September that marked a 43-month low. The climb beat expectations of a 2.2% rise…

Weather worsens in Philippines as Super Typhoon Man-yi gets closer A potentially catastrophic super typhoon has made landfall in the Philippines – the sixth typhoon to hit the country in a month. Man-Yi, known locally as Pepito, touched down at 21:40 local time (13:40 GMT) with maximum wind speeds of 195 km/h (121mph) along the…

An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Virginia, US, on Sunday, July 28, 2024. Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Images The power needs of artificial intelligence and cloud computing are growing so large that individual data center campuses could soon use more electricity than some cities, and even entire U.S. states, according to…

Rising global trade tensions present a risk to the euro area economy, the bloc’s central bank found in its biannual Financial Stability Review out on Wednesday. The European Central Bank also said weak growth was now a bigger threat than high inflation in the 20-nation euro zone. The latest figures recorded euro zone economic growth…

TOKYO, JAPAN – 2024/10/11: Logo at the Seven & i Holdings headquarters in Tokyo.  Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of 7-Eleven owner Seven & i soared nearly 11% on Wednesday after a report said the company’s founding family was raising more than $50 billion to take the company private within this fiscal…

Getty Images Trump chose Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who has been critical of China in the past, to be US ambassador to the United Nations. A week after Donald Trump won a second-term in the White House, the contours of his new presidency have started taking shape. The president-elect has announced nearly a dozen appointees, the…