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North Korea sends balloons filled with waste into the South
SEOUL, South Korea — Waste and propaganda are raining down across the Korean peninsula.
PwC agrees deal to become OpenAI's first reseller and largest enterprise user
PwC landed a deal Wednesday with OpenAI to become the artificial intelligence company's first resale partner and largest enterprise user.
North Korea sends balloons carrying excrement over border, Seoul says
SEOUL (Reuters) -- South Korea accused North Korea on Wednesday of sending a large number of balloons across their heavily fortified border to drop objects including trash and excrement, calling the act base and dangerous.
India’s capital hits record 52.3 degrees in fierce heatwave: ‘everyone wants to stay indoors’, ‘waiting for the monsoon’
Temperatures in India’s capital soared to a national record-high of 52.3 degrees Celsius (126.1 Fahrenheit) on Wednesday, the government’s weather bureau said.
UN rights group says Japan needs to do more to counter human rights abuses
TOKYO (AP) — A group working under the U.N. Human Rights Council has issued a wide-ranging report about rights in Japan, including discrimination against minorities and unhealthy working conditions.
Nearly 3 out of 10 children in Afghanistan face crisis or emergency level of hunger in 2024
ISLAMABAD (AP) — About 6.5 million children in Afghanistan were forecast to experience crisis levels of hunger in 2024, nongovernmental organization Save the Children said.
How Temu parent PDD dethroned Alibaba to become China's most valuable e-commerce company
PDD's value-for-money positioning and growth of its Temu marketplace has helped the company lead China's e-commerce arena, analysts said, making it the country's most valuable company in the segment.