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OREFIELD, Pa. (AP) — In a romance and adventure worthy of the big screen, a Pennsylvania couple is preserving the past and forging a future as the owners of the world’s oldest operating drive-in movie theater. Lauren McChesney got more than admission to a double feature when she handed her ticket to Matt McClanahan at a different drive-in he managed in 2018. They started dating a year later, and, in August, got engaged. In between, they purchased Shankweiler’s Drive-In Theatre, which was Pennsylvania’s first drive-in and only the nation’s second when it opened in 1934. The sun sets on the…

  LONDON: Kuwait Pharmaceutical Association (KUPFA) signed the Copenhagen Declaration on the global threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which recommends international cooperation and financial support to combat AMR. ”The signing took place on the sidelines of the 83rd International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, which came to a close in Copenhagen,” KUPFA Board member Dr. Bader Al-Khereinj told KUNA on Friday.The FIP World Congress 2025, themed “Pharmacy Forward: Performance, Collaboration, and Health Transformation,” aimed to explore the evolving role of the pharmacy profession in the context of modern healthcare challenges. ”It focused on the role…

Pharmaceutical Association signs Copenhagen Declaration on combating antimicrobial resistance KUWAIT: The Kuwait Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) signed the Copenhagen Declaration on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), joining global efforts to strengthen cooperation in tackling one of the world’s most pressing health challenges. The declaration outlines commitments to building partnerships, promoting vaccination, ensuring the rational use of antibiotics, safeguarding pharmaceutical supply chains, and expanding the evidence base for good governance and care outcomes.The signing took place during the 83rd World Congress of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), held in Copenhagen under the theme “Advancing Pharmacy: Performance, Collaboration, and Health Transformation.” A delegation from…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg offered $100 million signing bonuses to top OpenAI employees.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe artificial intelligence arms race is heating up, and as tech giants scramble to come out on top, they’re dangling millions of dollars in front of a small talent pool of specialists in what’s become known as the AI talent war.It’s seeing Big Tech firms like Meta, Microsoft, and Google compete for top AI researchers in an effort to bolster their artificial intelligence divisions and dominate the multibillion-dollar market.Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently embarked on an expensive hiring spree to beef…

Bond markets were back in focus this week as rising yields — which reflect higher borrowing costs for governments — raised concerns over debt sustainability around the world. Described by analysts at Deutsche Bank as a “slow-moving vicious circle,” higher government bond yields increase the cost for nations to service their debts, at a time when many major economies — from the U.S. to the U.K. , France and Japan — are struggling to reduce their fiscal deficits. Questions about their ability to do this puts further upward pressure on long-term bond yields, as investors demand a higher risk premium,…

BANGKOK – President Donald Trump is miffed that the US is aced-out by China in processing rare earths that are especially prized for making strategic-use magnets. Those magnets are critical to creating high-tech weaponry and equipment used by the military and aerospace industries, including for US warplanes needed to check China. China hopes to strengthen its near-monopoly over the world’s military-grade processed dysprosium, terbium and other rare earth elements by securing rebel-held mines in Southeast Asia’s war-torn Myanmar while boosting support for its coup-installed military dictatorship. “China intelligently went in and they sort of took a monopoly of the world’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — Aryna Sabalenka will be seeking her fourth Grand Slam title overall and second straight at the U.S. Open when she faces Amanda Anisimova in the women’s final at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Saturday.The No. 1-seeded Sabalenka is a 27-year-old from Belarus who will be playing in her third major title match of 2025 — each against an American opponent. She lost to Madison Keys at the Australian Open in January and to Coco Gauff at the French Open in June.Sabalenka also beat an American, Jessica Pegula, in last year’s final in New York and will be…

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — Ahmad Khan Safi had a good life in Afghanistan. The farmer raised livestock in the Dewagal Valley of Kunar Province, and people traveled from across the country to visit the area. Tourists marveled at its verdant landscape, winding paths and formidable slopes. The valley appeared untouched. It was hard to reach, so inaccessible that people had to change cars four times from the city of Jalalabad, in neighboring Nangarhar province, and walk the rest of the way for several hours or ride a mule.Safi had built a 10-room house from mud and stone because wood and…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A desert-like patch of sand and scrawny trees in the largest cemetery in Iran’s capital has been the final resting place for decades for some of the thousands killed in the mass executions that followed Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. Now, Lot 41 at the sprawling Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in Tehran is becoming a parking lot, with their remains likely beneath asphalt. Images from Planet Labs PBC show the parking lot being laid over the site, where opponents of Iran’s nascent theocracy and others were rapidly buried following their executions at gunpoint or by hanging.…

ABTAA, Syria (AP) — The classrooms at a school building in Abtaa, in Syria’s southern province of Daraa, have turned into living quarters housing three or four families each. Because of the lack of privacy and close quarters, the woman and children sleep inside, with the men bedding down outside in the courtyard.The Bedouin families evacuated their villages during sectarian fighting more than a month ago in neighboring Sweida province. Since then, the central government in Damascus has been in a standoff with local Druze authorities in Sweida, while the displaced have been left in a state of limbo.Munira al-Hamad,…