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Canada posts August trade jump
Canada saw trade rebound sharply in August, posting a surplus of Can$718 million (US$522 million) with the strongest exports in two years outpacing an uptick in imports, the government statistical agency said Thursday. Record exports to the United States helped widen Canada's trade surplus with its neighbor and largest trading partner to Can$10.4 billion.
Iraqis marvel at ancient Iraq in new 'Assassin's Creed' game
Iraqi gamers celebrated the release Thursday of the latest instalment of the "Assassin's Creed" action-adventure saga, set in ninth century Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate. Haider Jaafar, who heads the Iraqi Federation of Electronic Sports, said the new "Assassin's Creed" game "will reach millions of people" and give foreign audiences "a positive image of the origins of Baghdad".
US trade gap narrows to smallest in nearly three years
An increase in exports helped to reduce the overall US trade deficit in August to the smallest since late 2020, according to government data released on Thursday. The goods deficit with China dipped $1.3 billion to $22.7 billion in August, with imports from the country dropping more than exports to it, data showed. bys/st
Musk's X strips headlines from news links
Elon Musk's social media platform X has stripped headlines from news articles shared by users, in a move likely to further worsen relations with media groups. Instead of seeing a headline along with a picture, users now see only a picture with a small watermark.
Taiwan to probe firms over Huawei chip plants in China
Taipei has said it will investigate if Taiwanese firms that helped Huawei build semiconductor factories violated US sanctions against the Chinese tech giant. The four Taiwanese companies are helping Huawei develop an "under-the-radar network of chip plants" in China, Bloomberg reported this week.
Macau bets on China's 'Golden Week' holiday to stage comeback
Macau's baccarat and poker tables were teeming once again as millions of Chinese tourists marked "Golden Week" in October, with post-pandemic travel surging despite the country's economic slowdown. Chinese travellers are expected to make more than 100 million daily trips during the annual national holiday -- making it the "hottest" Golden Week ever, a state-backed tourism think tank predicted.
Asian markets follow US lead with gains
Asian markets posted modest gains in early Thursday trade, rebounding from previous losses after a strong lead from Wall Street. When trading kicked off in Asia, Tokyo was up by more than one percent, and Hong Kong was up by just over 0.3 percent.
Homelessness explodes in Canada as rents, housing prices soar
Canada is gripped by a surge in homelessness that has seen tens of thousands of people priced out of rental and real estate markets and left to live in the streets of the wealthy nation. Real estate prices have become the main topic around the dinner table in recent months, and public opinion and opposition criticisms have forced governments to prioritize housing and cost of living concerns.
IMF, World Bank to tackle climate goals among reforms at annual meetings
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund will tackle the thorny issue of institutional reform at their upcoming annual meetings in Morocco next week. "So we need to have a better mechanism for a faster resolution of the debt problem," she continued, urging world leaders to tackle the issue at the annual meetings. da-jmi-vog/dw
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