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The Trump administration wants the Security Council to adopt a resolution that has the 20-point U.S. plan annexed, effectively making it international law.

Reaction follows Wall Street’s worst day in a month and unprecedented slump in investment in China

Global markets suffered another day of volatile trading after a tech sell-off that fuelled Wall Street’s worst day in a month and weak economic data from China showed an unprecedented slump in investment.
The FTSE 100 fell by 1.1% in London, closing down about 100 points at 9,698, as bellwether banking stocks tumbled. Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest slumped between 2.7% and 3.6%.

An Asian tech worker faced racism during job applications, receiving rejections with his real name. After switching to an American name, he received interview calls.

Vincent Karremans called semiconductor supply chain crisis a ‘wake-up call for western leaders’
The Chinese government has expressed “extreme disappointment” with the Dutch minister at the heart of a row over chip supply to the car industry.
A spokesperson for the ministry of commerce was responding to on Thursday in which the politician described the standoff between China and the European Union as a “wake-up call” for western leaders.

My sister Maureen McGinley, who has died aged 77, was a member of the Order of Columban Sisters, a progressive Irish Catholic order whose nuns train as doctors, nurses and teachers before going abroad.
While serving in Hong Kong, Maureen made a significant and pioneering contribution to the care of people who are HIV positive. In 1994 she founded the (SAC), the first non-governmental organisation of its kind in Asia. It continues its charitable work to this day. Maureen devoted her life to the welfare of the people of Hong Kong from 1976 until 1999.

Chao Xu, 33, may be one of worst sex offenders in British criminal history, police fear
A businessman has been jailed for life for drugging women then subjecting them to sexual attacks which he recorded for his pleasure, as well as committing hundreds of other sexual offences.
The judge said Chao Xu’s offending was “calculated and planned” and he posed a high risk to women.

Anthropic says financial firms and government agencies were attacked ‘largely without human intervention’
A leading artificial intelligence company claims to have stopped a China-backed “cyber espionage” campaign that was able to infiltrate financial firms and government agencies with almost no human oversight.
The US-based Anthropic said its coding tool, Claude Code, was “manipulated” by a Chinese state-sponsored group to attack 30 entities around the world in September, achieving a “handful of successful intrusions”.

When Dr. Jeffrey Velotta, Clinical Professor of Clinical Science at Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine (KPSOM), returned to the Bay Area in 2014 after years of thoracic surgery ...

Text messages released by US House show convicted sex offender coaching Maga influencer on political messaging. Plus, readers’ favourite photo booth moments 100 years after its invention
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The convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein apparently served as during an August 2018 media campaign to defend Trump and his agenda, and to promote Bannon’s media ventures.
What else has been released in the flood of recent Epstein emails? Among many, many other things, one email shows an exchange between him and an associate in which they discuss “girls” and travel. The justice department continues to downplay the possibility that other men were involved in Epstein’s abuse of teen girls.
What’s happening with rest of the Epstein files? Trump is facing the prospect of a politically damaging congressional vote to release the files, after attempts to press two members of Congress to withdraw their backing for it appeared to have failed.
What exactly is climate finance? Who pays it? And who gets it? Sixteen years ago, at the climate summit in Copenhagen, rich and polluting countries pledged to provide $100bn (£76bn) each year by 2020 . Last year, they set a new target of $300bn (£227bn) a year by 2035.

State-sponsored Chinese hackers are believed to be responsible for a widespread cyber espionage campaign that primarily relied on American artificial intelligence technology, according to a new report ...

Luckin Coffee, Chagee, and other Chinese brands are targeting US consumers with Instagram-worthy drinks sold through sleek mobile apps.

Investigation by Guardian and Carbon Brief finds just a fifth of funds to fight global heating went to poorest 44 countries

China and wealthy petrostates including Saudi Arabia and UAE are among countries receiving large sums of climate finance, according to an analysis.
The Guardian and analysed previously unreported submissions to the UN, along with data from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), that show how billions of dollars of public money is being committed to the fight against global heating.