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A Trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York on November 21, 2025. Angela Weiss | Afp | Getty ImagesLONDON — European stocks advanced on Tuesday as regional markets cemented their positive start to the week.The pan-European Stoxx 600 closed the session preliminarily 0.9% higher, with most major bourses and sectors in positive territory at the closing bell in London.The moves come after major U.S. averages rebounded on Monday, driven by strength in the artificial intelligence trade and renewed hopes of a Federal Reserve interest rate cut. Asia-Pacific markets also traded higher overnight,…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a wave of attacks on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, overnight, with at least six people killed in strikes that hit city buildings and energy infrastructure. A Ukrainian attack on southern Russia killed three people and damaged homes, authorities said. The attacks came during a renewed U.S. push to end the war that has raged for nearly four years and talks about a U.S. peace plan. ____ Firefighters put out the fire after a drone hit a multi-storey residential building during Russia’s night drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) Firefighters…

If you’ve chosen a target asset allocation—the mix of stocks, bonds, and cash in your portfolio— you’re probably ahead of many investors. But unless you’re investing in a set-and-forget investment option like a target-date fund, your portfolio’s asset mix will shift as the market fluctuates. In a bull market you might get more equity exposure than you planned, or the reverse if the market declines.Rebalancing involves selling assets that have appreciated the most and using the proceeds to shore up assets that have lagged. This brings your portfolio’s asset mix back into balance and enforces the discipline of selling high/buying…

Joe Gelhardt: Confidence has helped me kick on this season Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Joe Gelhardt tells Sky Sports about winning Sky Bet Championship Goal of the Month for a fine Hull City team goal They say never fall in love with a loan player, but the same lesson also applies for players away from their parent clubs. Safe to say both the Hull support and Joe Gelhardt have failed with that. “It was the main place I wanted to come in the summer after last season,” Gelhardt tells the Sky Sports Essential EFL…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers voted on Tuesday to deepen integration of the bloc’s defense industry with Ukraine as a U.S. peace plan remains in flux and Russia’s unconventional warfare operations rattle the 27-nation bloc.European Parliament legislators voted 457-148, with 33 abstentions, to approve a 1.5-billion euro ($1.7 billion) program, with 300 million euros ($345 million) slated for the Ukraine Support Instrument.Raphaël Glucksmann, an EU lawmaker from France’s S&D party, said that the defense program “will enable us to build a more resilient and sovereign Europe” through partnering with Ukraine to build a cutting-edge military industrial complex. “This is…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Tuesday doubled down on the value of monogamous marriage between a man and woman, responding to concerns raised by African bishops about the practice of polygamy in their flocks.The document from the Vatican’s doctrine office said the Catholic Church had a well-documented position upholding the indissolubility of marriage as a lifelong union between spouses. But it said the church’s position on the unique and exclusive nature of a monogamous marriage was less well known.In recent years at Vatican meetings of bishops, African delegates have regularly complained that polygamy is widely practiced among their…

The vulnerabilities of East Asia’s submarine telecommunications cable system have become impossible to ignore in the AI age. Yet the responses proposed or recently adopted by Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and the United States remain inadequate. A more creative, collaborative and effective strategy is overdue to ensure that subsea cables can meet societal demand and withstand emerging threats. These four nations—deeply interconnected both technologically and economically—are especially well positioned to adopt, shape and scale such an approach. Subsea cables carry nearly all transoceanic data. This infrastructure is vital to every country but particularly to those heavily invested in AI, including…

Japanese national flag flies before the National Emblem of China in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.China Photos | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesBack-to-back calls between U.S. President Donald Trump and the leaders of Japan and China have so far done little to defuse the diplomatic spat occurring between Beijing and Tokyo, as experts warn that a de-escalation of the crisis remains nowhere in sight.Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi spoke with Trump on Tuesday, hours after he held a separate call with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Takaichi, in remarks to the media after her call with Trump, said that she…

BANGKOK (AP) — Rights groups on Tuesday slammed the Trump administration’s decision to end protected status for Myanmar citizens due to the country’s “notable progress in governance and stability,” even though it remains mired in a bloody civil war and the head of its military regime faces possible U.N. war crimes charges. In her announcement Monday ending temporary protection from deportation for citizens of Myanmar, also known as Burma, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem cited the military’s plans for “free and fair elections” in December and “successful ceasefire agreements” as among the reasons for her decision.“The situation in Burma has…

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice holds up his dog Babydog as he comes to the end of his State of the State speech in the House chambers, at the West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston, W.Va., Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022.Chris Dorst | Charleston Gazette | APThe U.S. government on Monday sued Sen. Jim Justice, a West Virginia Republican, and his wife for more than $5 million in unpaid federal income taxes, penalties, and interest dating to the 2009 tax filing year.”Despite notice and demand for payment of the assessments …James C. Justice, II, and Cathy L. Justice have neglected or…