Author: admin

Visitors in front of the Cinderella Castle at Tokyo Disneyland in Tokyo, Japan on Jan. 17, 2023.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJapan on Monday said it dispatched a senior foreign ministry official to China to ease rising tensions, public broadcaster NHK reported, as tourism-exposed stocks in Tokyo slumped amid the diplomatic feud.Masaaki Kanai, a director-general at Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is expected to meet his counterpart Liu Jinsong on Tuesday, according to media outlet Kyodo.Japan’s tourism-exposed stocks fell Monday after Beijing issued a travel and study alert for its citizens considering going to Japan.Beauty and cosmetics firm Shiseido, which…

Jeff KassoufNov 16, 2025, 08:16 PM ETCloseJeff Kassouf covers women’s soccer for ESPN, focusing on the USWNT and NWSL. In 2009, he founded The Equalizer, a women’s soccer news outlet, and he previously won a Sports Emmy at NBC Sports and Olympics.ORLANDO, Fla. — Gotham FC playmaker Jaedyn Shaw scored seven minutes into second-half stoppage time on her team’s only shot on target of the game to lift them to a 1-0 win over the defending NWSL champion Orlando Pride in Sunday’s semifinal at Inter&Co Stadium.Gotham, the lowest-seeded team in this year’s playoff field, will face the Washington Spirit on…

TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) — Thirteen years ago, Abdoulaye Cissé risked his life to smuggle tens of thousands of fragile manuscripts out of Timbuktu as al-Qaida -linked extremists swept into the desert town.At night, he loaded crates of manuscripts from the Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Islamic Studies and Research onto donkey carts, aware that their pages carried evidence of his people’s glorious past. They were taken to the river, where wooden boats and then buses took them to Mali’s capital, Bamako — a 1,200-kilometer (750-mile) journey.“It was dark, but we knew the route by heart,” said Cissé, the institute’s general…

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — At United Nations climate talks on Monday, professional negotiators will be stepping aside to make way for higher ranking government ministers to take charge and make the tougher and political decisions during the conference’s second and final week.The climate negotiations, called COP30, taking place on edge of the Brazilian Amazon, resume after a rest day with foreign and other ministers arriving and scheduled to speak. They will then negotiate with far more power and leeway than those who have been doing the bargaining thus far. “It brings a whole different dimension to the table,” said David…

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A landslide buried a passenger bus on a treacherous mountain pass in Vietnam, killing six people and injuring 19 others, as more heavy rain was forecast into the week.The earth and rocks collapsed onto the bus late Sunday as it was traveling through the Khanh Le pass in the central highlands, state media reported. The winding, 33-kilometer (20-mile) stretch carved into steep mountainsides is scenic and popular with tourists but prone to landslides in the rainy season.The landslide crushed the front of the bus, trapping many passengers. Rescuers struggled for hours to reach the scene as…

Tokyo, Japan skyline with the Tokyo TowerChunyip Wong | E+ | Getty ImagesJapan’s economy contracted by a smaller-than-expected 1.8% in the third quarter on an annualized basis, with growth in private and government consumption limiting the decline.On a quarter-on-quarter basis, GDP in the three months to September contracted for the first time in six quarters, falling 0.4%, government data released Monday showed.The fall in growth, however, was softer than Reuters poll estimates of a 2.5% annualized contraction and a 0.6% sequential drop.Public demand grew 2.2% annualized, supported mostly by government consumption, while private demand fell 1.8%, dragged lower by a…

BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mostly lower in Asia on Monday while U.S. futures advanced after Wall Street’s lackluster finish to last week. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 fell 0.3% to 50,226.67 after the government reported that the Japanese economy contracted at a 1.8% annual pace in the July-September quarter. The dollar rose against the Japanese yen, climbing to 154.65 yen from 154.58 yen. Chinese markets also slipped, as Hong Kong’s Hang Seng shed 0.8% to 26,359.22. The Shanghai Composite index declined 0.4% to 3,973.31. Geopolitical tensions have also hurt sentiment in East Asia, as relations between China and Japan have deteriorated…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign students enrolled at U.S. colleges in strong numbers this fall despite fears that a Trump administration crackdown would trigger a nosedive, yet there are signs of turbulence as fewer new, first-time students arrived from other countries, according to a new report.Overall, U.S. campuses saw a 1% decrease in international enrollment this fall compared with last year, according to a survey from the Institute of International Education. But that figure is propped up by large numbers of students who stayed in the U.S. for temporary work after graduating. The number of new students entering the United States…

An electronic quotation board displays the Nikkei 225 stock prices on the Tokyo stock Exchange in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2025.Greg Baker | Afp | Getty ImagesAsia-Pacific markets traded mixed on Monday as investors assessed rising friction between Japan and China after Beijing warned its citizens about travel and study plans in Japan.Japan’s benchmark  slid 0.1% to close at 50,323.91, while the Topix lost 0.37% at 3,347.53, as tourism-exposed stocks slumped.Beauty and cosmetics firm Shiseido, which relies heavily on Chinese spending, plunged 9.08%. Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings, the parent company of the Mitsukoshi and Isetan department-store chains, lost more than 11%. Oriental…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York on November 14, 2025. Charly Triballeau | Afp | Getty ImagesStock futures were little changed on Sunday night following a choppy week in which valuation fears, a rotation within the market and a recalibration of Federal Reserve rate cut expectations pressured the artificial intelligence trade.Dow Jones Industrial Average futures slipped 58 points, or 0.1%. S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 futures hovered around the flatline.The Nasdaq Composite ended last week down 0.5%, led by declines in Alphabet, Amazon, Broadcom and Meta Platforms. The Dow Jones Industrial Average…