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Japan’s Environment Ministry is stepping up measures against longhorn beetles that are devouring cherry trees, with a request for 6.7 billion yen (US$43 million) to counter invasive species in the next financial year’s initial budget. According to the ministry, the requested amount, which is an increase of 11 times the initial budget of 600 million yen for the 2026 financial year, will be used to eradicate the red-necked longhorn beetle and strengthen measures to protect trees, including plum...

The suspects were flown to Miami to stand trial over the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moise five years ago.

Dozens of drivers found their car windows smashed and glass scattered on Wood Street in Old City on Sunday.

Verified footage appears to show a cargo ship colliding with a fishing boat near Singapore, with investigators still working to establish exactly when and how the crash happened.

Hong Kong authorities have captured three stray mongrels near a road in Yuen Long after a female cyclist was suspected of having died in a fatal dog attack in the area. The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said on Monday that it had worked alongside police to capture three stray dogs near Pok Wai South Road on Sunday evening. But the AFCD sidestepped a question on whether some of the recent suspected attacks in the New Territories were linked to land resumption...

The Korean auteur throws too much at the wall without ensuring much of it sticks.

Tribal leader Petronila Munoz walked across the sweeping Philippine grasslands she has called home for generations, uncertain about its future, as a sprawling tech hub for a US-led initiative takes shape. With little information and no prior consultation, the indigenous chieftain said her Aeta Hungey tribe was uncertain how much of their land could be affected or what would become of the livelihood it provided. “There’s still no clarity,” Munoz said inside the tribe’s traditional meeting hall....

President Trump on Sunday posted a video of himself practicing his golf swing with golf star Bryson DeChambeau. The post President Trump Practices His Swing with Golf Star Bryson DeChambeau (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

A woman in her 70s in northern China briefly exhibited signs of life after being placed in a coffin, but ultimately died two days later. The woman, from Hebei province, had been suffering from cerebral thrombosis for decades and was also battling cancer, according to reports from mainland sources. After doctors concluded that her cancer was no longer treatable, her family brought her home for end-of-life care. On September 8, relatives found no apparent signs of life and placed her in a...

When Chinese artificial intelligence developers want to train their next-generation frontier models, they all face the same daunting wall: they cannot legally buy the world’s most powerful AI chips. However, the country’s tech giants and start-ups have still managed to quietly keep pace with global rivals. Their secret is an elusive workaround: moving heavy training workloads across borders through the cloud. By setting up proxy entities in foreign jurisdictions, domestic firms have for years...

Change is in the air as our story shifts to 2026 and a ring-less John Stewart returns to Rushville to investigate Hal Jordan's death — and find closure of his own.

In his first interview since his ex-wife’s trial, Patrick Clancy opened up about his grief at losing his three children and said that he tried his best before the tragic killings in Massachusetts.