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Three wildfires that started earlier this week were still burning Wednesday evening local time.

European natural gas prices weakened after having closed up over 28% on Wednesday, highlighting how volatile the market is to supply disruption.

Biden Orders Ban on New Investments in China’s Sensitive High-Tech Industries  The New York Times Why the Biden administration wants to limit U.S. investments in Chinese tech  PBS NewsHour ‘Blatant economic coercion’: China slams Biden’s order limiting U.S. overseas tech investment  CNBC Biden

Cuba, which for decades was one of the largest exporters of sugar in the world, now has to import sugar to meet its domestic demand. Six decades after the Cuban Revolution, the country is again undergoing a severe economic crisis,

White House cocaine may have belonged to someone in ‘Biden family orbit’: report  New York Post

t least 36 people have died in the Lahaina fire in Hawaii, Maui County wrote in a statement posted to the county website Wednesday evening. Wildfires, whipped by strong winds from Hurricane Dora passing far to the south, took the

Hawaii wildfires burn historic town of Lahaina to the ground  BBC Video shows Hawaii wildfires spreading across Maui  CNN Red Cross seeks hundreds of volunteers to assist with Maui disaster response  Hawaii News Now Maui fire prompts evacuations as Hawaii issues emergency proclamation  ABC

By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) – The assassination of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio shocked the South American country, where rising drug-related violence is a major concern for voters, leading some of his rivals to suspend campaigning. Villavicencio, a vocal

By Riham Alkousaa and Juliette Jabkhiro BERLIN (Reuters) – Simon Lachner had plans to glue himself to a German city thoroughfare in June to call public attention to climate change. Instead, he ended up in police custody before he’d even

No reports of damage or injuries as 11 UAVs were stopped en route to targets, defense ministry says