NICE, France (AP) — Members of a pro-independence movement in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia demanded on Monday the “release and immediate return” of the Indigenous Kanak leader who was flown to mainland France for pretrial detention after recent deadly unrest. Christian Tein, a leader of the movement known as The Field Action […]
NICE, France (AP) — A pro-independence leader in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia was transferred to a prison facility in mainland France to await trial on charges relating to two weeks of unrest in May that left nine people dead, the public prosecutor in the territory said Sunday. Christian Tein, an Indigenous Kanak […]
Mainland High School seniors turned their tassels and celebrated as the Class of 2024 Friday night at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach. Of the 365 graduates, 64 received scholar designations; 172 received industry scholar designations; 27 received the Florida Seal of Biliteracy; five earned an associate degree. Mainland High School Commencement Exercises at the […]
A sharp decline in Taiwan’s ties with mainland China could extend to the very devices being used to transmit and read this story. The far-reaching implications from what has been a geopolitical tug of war are ultimately likely to bolster mainland China’s standing as a dominant supplier of older-model semiconductors while ramping up the need […]
Beijing launched an anti-dumping investigation on Sunday into imports of a widely used engineering chemical from the EU, US, Japan and Taiwan, as tensions rise with the major trading partners. The commerce ministry move targeting polyformaldehyde copolymer follows a slew of anti-subsidy and anti-dumping probes into Chinese products by the European Union, the latest launched […]
By Adam Jourdan BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – A deadly type of bird flu has been confirmed on the mainland of Antarctica for the first time, scientists said, a potential risk for the southern region’s huge penguin colonies. “This discovery demonstrates for the first time that the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza virus has reached Antarctica despite […]
A new ferry, hailed as one of the world’s largest of its kind, will be running between Italy’s Sardinia and the mainland from Saturday onwards, making it easier to reach the popular holiday island in the Mediterranean south of Corsica. Operated by shipping company Moby Lines, the Moby Legacy will connect Livorno in Tuscany and […]
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding has further reduced its stake in Hong Kong-listed logistics service provider GoGoX Holdings, which is facing cutthroat competition and regulatory pressure in the mainland’s intracity delivery courier market. Alibaba, which owns the South China Morning Post, has cut its GoGoX stake four times over the past two months, slashing […]
It’s been confirmed that the mainland U.S. is now home to a disease once thought to only exist in tropical climates, as NPR has reported. Leishmaniasis has joined other diseases in spreading to new places as the warming planet opens up new populations to these diseases. What’s happening? According to the World Health Organization, there […]