• Beiersdorf bets big on Shanghai
    2025-10-16

    "If you cannot win China, you cannot win the world," said Lei Kaiting, General Manager of Corporate Affairs for Beiersdorf China, regarding Shanghai as the hub of the cosmetics industry in the Yangtze River Delta region.

  • Supreme Court seems inclined to limit race-based electoral districts under the Voting Rights Act
    2025-10-16

    WASHINGTON AP — The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than a half century, a change that would boost Republican electoral prospects, particularly across the South. During 2 12 hours ...

  • Trump details decision to authorize CIA to operate in Venezuela
    2025-10-16

    President Donald Trump said Wednesday he authorized the CIA to operate inside Venezuela to clamp down on illegal flows of migrants and drugs from the South American nation, but stopped short of saying they would have authority to remove President Nicolas Maduro. The remarks are Trump’s most expansi...

  • Higher education CEO on AI’s growing role in health-care degree market
    2025-10-15

    Maskot | Maskot | Getty Images AI is quickly transforming the way companies and CEOs are approaching their businesses and the strategies that take them forward. Amid that rapid transformation, Adtalem Global EducationCEO Steve Beard said there is a “threshold question” that he keeps coming back t...

  • Cash shortages threaten UN labor rights organization
    2025-10-15

    Gilbert Houngbo, International Labour Organization ILO Director-General [PhotoAgencies] The United Nations' global organization for the promotion of labor rights has warned that it faces a funding crisis and could be forced to shed around 8 percent of its workforce unless member states pay their ...

  • Incumbent President David Adeang re-elected as president of Nauru for second term
    2025-10-15

    SYDNEY -- Incumbent President David Adeang has been re-elected as president of Nauru for a second term following Saturday's national elections. The government of Nauru said in a post on social media that Adeang was elected unopposed as president during the inaugural sitting of the Micronesian natio...

  • Slowdown in US hiring suggests economy still needs rate cuts, Fed's Powell says
    2025-10-15

    Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says that a sharp slowdown in hiring poses a growing risk to the U.S. economy WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON AP — A sharp slowdown in hiring poses a growing risk to the U.S. economy, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday, a sign that the Fed will likely cut ...

  • Madagascar military says it has seized power as president moves to 'safe place'
    2025-10-15

    An elite military unit says it has seized power in Madagascar from President Andry Rajoelina following weeks of youth-led protests in the Indian Ocean island. Standing outside the presidential palace on Tuesday, CAPSAT chief Col Michael Randrianirina said the military would form a government and ho...

  • A fragile Gaza ceasefire is tested after Israel and Hamas swap detainees and hostages
    2025-10-15

    Bulldozers deployed by the Gaza Municipality drive past displaced people, on their way to clear building rubble from main roads in Gaza City on Tuesday, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian fighters in Gaza. AFPGetty Images Israel and Hamas took steps toward ending the two-year war tha...

  • China announces countermeasures against five U.S.-linked subsidiaries of Hanwha Ocean
    2025-10-14

    BEIJING, Oct. 14 Xinhua -- China's Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday announced the decision to take countermeasures against five U.S.-linked subsidiaries of Hanwha Ocean, a leading shipbuilding enterprise from the Republic of Korea. These countermeasures, which took effect on Tuesday, were adopted to...

  • New 1-day surgery removes cancer and reconstructs the breast in the same operation
    2025-10-14

    When the results of her routine mammogram came back with a diagnosis of stage 0 DCIS breast cancer in multiple areas of her right breast, Athaliah McPherson, a hairstylist and mom of one, said she wasn’t surprised. "I knew something was off," McPherson told ABC News. McPherson’s diagnosis was not ...

  • Trump's talk of 'natural conflict' in Canada trade queried
    2025-10-14

    A drone view shows cranes, shipping containers and transport trucks at the Port of Montreal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 14, 2025. [PhotoAgencies] A claim by United States President Donald Trump that the US and Canada have a "natural conflict" in trade may overstate competition and overlook...

  • Gaza ceasefire deal signed in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh
    2025-10-14

    Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi C addresses the summit on ending the Gaza war in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Oct 13, 2025. [Egyptian PresidencyHandout via Xinhua] SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt -- A summit on ending the Gaza war kicked off here Monday, which witnessed the signing of the recently-reac...

  • Tax extension filings still due on Oct. 15 despite government shutdown. Here's what to know.
    2025-10-14

    Although the U.S. government remains closed, taxpayers who requested a filing extension from the IRS earlier this year remain on the hook to submit their income tax returns by Oct. 15. "Taxpayers should continue to file, deposit and pay federal income taxes as they normally would," an IRS spokesman...

  • Authorities identify 16 killed in Tennessee explosives factory blast
    2025-10-14

    Law enforcement has identified the 16 people who were killed in a blast that levelled a munitions factory in the US state of Tennessee. The names were released during a news briefing on Monday outside Accurate Energetic Systems AES in Hickman County, where an early-morning blast on 10 October left ...