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Oct. 1 – 7, 2025AP mobile scroll: a selection of standout vertical images published by The Associated Press in the past week. The Harvest Supermoon rises behind the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn skyline, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025, in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Adam Gray, File) The Harvest Supermoon rises behind the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn skyline, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025, in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Adam Gray, File)Read More The parents of Shiran Slavin visit the site of the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Reim, southern Israel where she and another hundreds of revelers were killed…

Pakistan’s reported proposal to grant the United States a development and management role at Pasni port, as reported by the Financial Times, marks one of the most consequential geopolitical developments in recent years. Situated along the Arabian Sea – just 113 kilometers from China-operated Gwadar port, 161 km from Iran and approximately 286.5 km from India’s Chabahar port – Pasni’s geostrategic position places it at the intersection of major regional rivalries involving China, India, Iran, the United States and other key actors such as Saudi Arabia and Gulf investors. The port’s location also carries implications for Afghanistan, Central Asia and…

PARIS (AP) — Outgoing French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, aiming to calm the political storm triggered by his resignation on Monday less than 24 hours after unveiling his ministers, faced a tight deadline Wednesday to break the deadlock caused by his departure. After accepting Lecornu’s resignation, President Emmanuel Macron gave him 48 hours to hold further talks with political parties, citing the need to preserve national stability. The tight time frame for Lecornu bought Macron some time to consider his options. But all eyes turned to Macron on Wednesday as debate swirls about how he may respond to France’s political…

LONDON (AP) — The trial of two British men accused of spying for Beijing collapsed because the U.K. government refused to brand China a threat to national security, the country’s chief prosecutor said.Former parliamentary researcher Christopher Cash and academic Christopher Berry were charged in April 2024 with violating the Official Secrets Act by providing information or documents that could be “useful to an enemy” and “prejudicial to the safety or interests” of the U.K. between late 2021 and February 2023.But Director of Public Prosecutions Stephen Parkinson said the case collapsed because no one from the government was willing to testify…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore’s prison hanged a Malaysian drug trafficker Wednesday, marking the second execution in two weeks and raising the number of executions in the city-state to 12 this year despite pressure to abolish the death penalty.A Singapore anti-death penalty activist, Kirsten Han, confirmed that 38-year-old Pannir Selvam Pranthaman was executed at Changi Prison. Han, who is accompanying his family, said they have collected Pannir’s belongings from the prison.Pannir was arrested in 2014 for having 52 grams (about 1.8 ounces) of heroin and sentenced to death in 2017. He was originally scheduled for execution in February but…

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesIntel plans to release technical details about its forthcoming chip for laptops, known as Panther Lake, on Thursday, four sources briefed on the plans told Reuters. It is part of an effort to reassure investors about Intel’s first product made entirely using its next-generation manufacturing process called 18A, the sources said.The Panther Lake chips are the company’s high-end mobile processors that are typically included in more expensive laptops and are the first high-volume Intel products to use the 18A process that the company has spent billions developing. In part because of manufacturing stumbles, Intel has steadily ceded laptop and PC…

In 2025, the median rent for a 1-bedroom in Hong Kong is $2,421.Nikada | E+ | Getty ImagesAsia-Pacific markets traded mixed Wednesday, breaking ranks from Wall Street losses, after the World Bank raised the region’s growth forecast Tuesday.That comes after a summer that saw U.S. tariff-led uncertainty rock the global economy.Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 was little changed, while the the Topix added 0.62%. Australia’s ASX/S&P 200 fell 0.3%.Futures for Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index stood at 27,165, higher than its Tuesday close of 26,957.77.Mainland China and South Korean markets are closed for the holidays.The Bank of Thailand and Reserve Bank of…

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Emily KeoghOct 7, 2025, 06:55 PM ETCloseBased in London, Emily Keogh is ESPN’s women’s soccer correspondent, specializing in the WSL and UWCLBOREHAMWOOD, England — OL Lyonnes forward Melchie Dumornay showed Arsenal exactly what happens when you orchestrate your own demise against a team that is hungry to prove that they’re still one of the best in Europe.The 22-year-old scored both goals in Lyonnes’ 2-1 win over Arsenal on Tuesday to open the UEFA Women’s Champions League. For Arsenal, defensive fragilities that have persisted since the start of the season forced them to lose their first game in the competition since…

In an interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang discussed his company’s new deal with OpenAI, saying it’s the first “direct partnership” with the ChatGPT maker.”This is a partnership that, for the first time, OpenAI is going to buy directly from us,” Huang said. “Usually…a cloud service provider buys from us, and they rent from a cloud service provider. And so now it’s going to be a direct partnership.”Nvidia announced in September it plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI to build out artificial intelligence data center capacity. The companies said OpenAI is seeking to build…