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BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Peter Mutharika was sworn in as Malawi’s president Saturday after a political comeback at the age of 85 to win last month’s election.Thousands gathered at Kamuzu Stadium in the commercial capital, Blantyre, for Mutharika’s inauguration. He previously served as president of the southern African nation from 2014 to 2020. He lost office in 2020, after a 2019 election he won was nullified by a court because of widespread irregularities and ordered to be rerun the following year. He won a Sept. 16 election with 56% of the vote compared with 33% for incumbent Lazarus Chakwera to…

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has warned it could take most of the season for Rodri to get back to his best as he backed understudy Nico González to keep improving.Rodri played an hour of Wednesday’s 2-2 Champions League draw in Monaco after sitting out City’s two previous fixtures, with Guardiola having to carefully manage his star midfielder who missed almost all of last season with an anterior cruciate ligament injury.Guardiola has indicated the 29-year-old will be fit for Sunday’s trip to Brentford but the process to get him back to the player that won the Ballon d’Or last year…

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — As a Greek immigrant who came to the United States in 1956, Nectar Rorris never imagined the Vermont restaurant and music club he opened 50 years ago would become synonymous with Phish, but he credits the jam band with giving Nectar’s a national spotlight and making it a place sought out by local and traveling musicians alike. “Phish made Nectar’s,” the 86-year-old Rorris said recently. Nectar Rorris, one of the original owners of Nectar’s music club in Burlington, Vt., looks at a plaque featuring a photo of the jam band Phish and a message dedicating their…

Team newsEnzo Maresca says he will be without ‘seven or eight players’ for the contest.Palmer is absent through injury, while Chalobah will miss the game due to suspension.Tosin Adarabioyo, Levi Colwill, Liam Delap, Dario Essugo, Wesley Fofana and Andrey Santos have all been sidelined for the Blues.What they saidChelsea head coach Maresca”I consider them the best team, at this moment, in England. We are improving, trying to solve problems and find solutions. At the end, we are going to be there close.”It’s about continuing to evolve. Our defensive line was very good last year. In terms of goals conceded, we…

Hitachi, the Japanese industrial conglomerate, is taking its advance into digital technology to the next stage with an “AI factory” based on Nvidia processors and a tie-up with OpenAI. The company is also expanding its manufacturing operations in the US. On October 2, Hitachi wrote on X: “Hitachi CEO Toshiaki Tokunaga met @OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Tokyo today.​ We signed a landmark MoU to collaborate on sustainable and plentiful energy to power the growth of AI in our society.​ This is a significant development, a big step forward for the future of #genAI @sama [the honorable Sam Altman].” Under…

KUWAIT: 1963 — State of Kuwait and Iraq signed, in Baghdad, a minute regarding restoration of cordial relationship and recognition. The minute was submitted to the UN as an official document.1998 — The Kuwaiti government approved establishment of Sabbiya city and construction of a causeway between Kuwait and Sabbiya cities. The new city was projected to house 250,000 people.2012 — Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) signed a KD 107 million (USD 352 million) contract with South Korean company for engineering and construction (SK) to build power stations in the south and east of Kuwait.2014 — Rashed Al-Mutairi won the over 84kg…

TOKYO (AP) — In a country that ranks poorly internationally for gender equality, the new president of Japan’s long-governing Liberal Democrats, and likely next prime minister, is an ultra-conservative star of a male-dominated party that critics call an obstacle to women’s advancement.Sanae Takaichi, 64. admires former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and is a proponent of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s conservative vision for Japan. Takaichi is the first female president of Japan’s predominantly male ruling party that has dominated Japan’s postwar politics almost without interruption. First elected to parliament from her hometown of Nara in 1993, she has served…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The streets of Damascus barely showed sign Saturday a parliamentary election was set to take place the next day. There were no candidate posters on the main streets and squares, no rallies, or public debates. In the days leading up to the polling, some residents of the Syrian capital had no idea a vote was hours away, the first since Islamic insurgents ousted former President Bashar Assad in a lightning offensive in December.“I didn’t know — now by chance I found out that there are elections of the People’s Assembly,” said Elias al-Qudsi, a shopkeeper in…

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — As the European Union pushes to fully sever its reliance on Russian energy and the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump urges NATO members to abandon Russian oil, one country’s populist government stands firm.Hungary and its leader, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, have long argued Russian energy imports are indispensable for the country’s economy and switching to fossil fuels sourced from elsewhere would cause an immediate economic collapse.Orbán, who has long had the friendliest ties to the Kremlin of any EU leader, has vigorously opposed the bloc’s efforts to sanction Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine in…

Almost 60% of young people in the U.K. are interested in starting their own businesses, per the Generation Entrepreneur Report.Connect Images/ci-start | Connect Images | Getty ImagesYoung Brits are catching flak for their apparent lack of entrepreneurial drive, sparking a broader debate on whether the U.K. startup scene is facing an ambition deficit.It started when U.K. Business Secretary Peter Kyle criticized British university students for lacking the same interest in starting a business as their American peers.”In Britain, if you went to a group of undergraduates, how big would that group have to be before you found someone that said…