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China Ends Underwhelming Year With Fresh Signs of Weakness
31Dec By adminNo Comments
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China Ends Underwhelming Year With Fresh Signs of Weakness

Dec. 30, 2023 10:18 pm ETChina’s economy showed fresh signs of weakness as the year drew to a close, piling pressure on Beijing to take bold new steps to fire up growth in 2024.Surveys suggest factory activity slid deeper into contraction in December due to thin order books at home and abroad, while the services sector struggled as consumers kept a tight leash on spending.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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The Ruined Landscape of Gaza After Nearly Three Months of Bombing
30Dec By adminNo Comments
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The Ruined Landscape of Gaza After Nearly Three Months of Bombing

Listen to article(2 minutes)The war in the Gaza Strip is generating destruction comparable in scale to the most devastating urban warfare in the modern record.By mid-December, Israel had dropped 29,000 bombs, munitions and shells on the strip. Nearly 70% of Gaza’s 439,000 homes and about half of its buildings have been damaged or destroyed. The bombing has damaged Byzantine churches and ancient mosques, factories and apartment buildings, shopping malls and luxury hotels, theaters and schools. Much of the water, electrical, communications and healthcare infrastructure that made Gaza function is beyond repair. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Russian Strike on Ukraine Sent Warhead Through Polish Airspace, Warsaw Says
30Dec By adminNo Comments
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Russian Strike on Ukraine Sent Warhead Through Polish Airspace, Warsaw Says

KYIV, Ukraine—Russia launched a massive missile and drone attack on cities across Ukraine, killing at least 30 people and allegedly sending a warhead through Polish airspace in one of the biggest barrages of the war.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia launched around 110 missiles on Friday morning. The majority were shot down, according to Ukrainian officials, but damage was nonetheless widespread. Schools, apartment buildings and a maternity hospital were all hit. Casualties were reported in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia and Lviv—the six largest Ukrainian cities not under Russian occupation.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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In Sedona, a Rust-Covered Home Is Disguised by the Desert Landscape
25Dec By adminNo Comments
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In Sedona, a Rust-Covered Home Is Disguised by the Desert Landscape

Ian and Anne Rowland are married software engineers who can work from almost anywhere. And that, during New England’s long gray winters, means anywhere but Cambridge, Mass. “We wanted a place that felt very different from our home, and a building that reminded us of that difference, even if we were sitting inside, working,” Ian says.That explains why they built a vacation house in Sedona, Ariz. If you’re trying to avoid gray, there is no better place than that Yavapai County town, which is set among some of the reddest rocks on earth.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Why It Took 17 Years to Build 49 Housing Units in Los Angeles
13Dec By adminNo Comments
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Why It Took 17 Years to Build 49 Housing Units in Los Angeles

Listen to article(2 minutes)A Los Angeles nonprofit was given government land in January 2007 to build a few dozen units of affordable housing. They’re finally hoping to open the building next year. Lorena Plaza, a 49-unit development rising in the predominantly Latino neighborhood of Boyle Heights in eastern Los Angeles, is taking longer to complete, a city official said, than practically any other residential building this size in the history of Los Angeles. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Chinese Leaders Vow to Step Up Support for Flagging Economy
12Dec By adminNo Comments
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Chinese Leaders Vow to Step Up Support for Flagging Economy

Chinese leaders vowed to increase government spending and monetary support for the economy at an annual gathering, signaling they plan to stick with a measured approach to stimulus despite calls for bolder action. The Central Economic Work Conference, which ended Tuesday, capped a bruising year for the country’s economy, which has struggled with a drawn-out housing crunch and weak consumption.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Australian Builders Reject Moves to Sting Foreign Investors in Housing
11Dec By adminNo Comments
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Australian Builders Reject Moves to Sting Foreign Investors in Housing

Updated Dec. 10, 2023 9:09 pm ETSYDNEY—Australian home builders have rejected federal government plans to sharply increase penalties on foreign investors in the housing market, saying the measures will further erode new home supply, not add to it.Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced Sunday that foreign investors who buy established homes will face a tripling in government fees, which will increase further if the home is left vacant.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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The Megafactories Are Coming. Will the Workers Show Up?
10Dec By adminNo Comments
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The Megafactories Are Coming. Will the Workers Show Up?

By John Keilman | Photos by Maddie McGarvey for The Wall Street Journal COLUMBUS, Ohio—Enormous factories are sprouting outside of this capital city. Now comes the hard part—finding people to work in them.Manufacturing jobs are tough to fill around Columbus, which has one of Ohio’s lowest unemployment rates and a flourishing logistics industry that competes for the same employees. The region’s plants have thousands of open positions, a shortage that is causing some managers to join their workers on the production line.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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The Buffalo AKG Art Museum’s Collection in a New Context
9Dec By adminNo Comments
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The Buffalo AKG Art Museum’s Collection in a New Context

Buffalo, N.Y.This city’s location—only 65 miles on a beeline from Toronto but at a distant midpoint between New York and Cleveland—makes it a bit off the beaten track. Nevertheless, its symphony orchestra and a tri-partite performing arts center (lingering criticisms of too conservative a repertoire aside) give Buffalo an outsize heft in the arts. The city’s most prominent cultural institution is the venerable Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the sixth-oldest public art institution in the country, founded more than 160 years ago. Following a major renovation and expansion, it reopened this summer with a new name, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (the G here stands for museum patron Jeffrey Gundlach, a billionaire bond investor who was born in nearby Amherst, N.Y., and lives in Los Angeles). Copyright...
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Gaza Fighting Hits Historic Mosque as Battles Rage
9Dec By adminNo Comments
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Gaza Fighting Hits Historic Mosque as Battles Rage

Listen to article(2 minutes)Israeli soldiers clashed with Hamas militants in the narrow streets of some of Gaza City’s oldest and most crowded neighborhoods, with blasts severely damaging a large seventh-century mosque and setting some residential buildings ablaze.The Israeli military on Saturday instructed the remaining residents of the Old City, Jabalia refugee camp and the Shujaiyeh and Zaytoun areas to evacuate to areas to the west. The United Nations said intense fighting in Jabalia and eastern neighborhoods of the city encompassed 11.5 square miles, affecting an undefined number of residents after hundreds of thousands fled south.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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