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Top Hamas Leader Saleh al-Arouri Killed in Suspected Israeli Strike in Beirut
2Jan By adminNo Comments
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Top Hamas Leader Saleh al-Arouri Killed in Suspected Israeli Strike in Beirut

Listen to article(2 minutes)A top Hamas leader was killed Tuesday by a suspected Israeli strike in Beirut, according to two Lebanese security officials, raising the specter of further escalation in Israel’s war against Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.The blast killed Saleh al-Arouri, a founder of the Hamas military wing and one of its top political leaders, and at least three other people, the officials said. Hamas confirmed Arouri’s death in a statement. The Israeli military declined to comment on the explosion.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Japan Earthquake Death Toll Rises to 55 With Search On for Those Still Trapped
2Jan By adminNo Comments
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Japan Earthquake Death Toll Rises to 55 With Search On for Those Still Trapped

Updated Jan. 2, 2024 11:42 am ETThe smoking ruins of what was a popular market for tourists and a seven-story building lying on its side testified to the destruction left by a New Year’s Day earthquake in Japan that killed at least 55 people.The city of Wajima in Ishikawa prefecture on the Japan Sea coast suffered some of the worst damage from the magnitude 7.6 quake. Japan’s military was mobilized along with police and fire units to deliver relief supplies and try to rescue those buried under homes and buildings.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Biden’s $3.1 Billion Train Ticket to Nowhere
2Jan By adminNo Comments
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Biden’s $3.1 Billion Train Ticket to Nowhere

It didn’t get a lot of attention, but last month the White House awarded $3.1 billion to the California High-Speed Rail project. This was supposed to be a bullet train connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles in less than three hours. Instead, its costs keep rising even as the state scales back the plan. Since 2008, when California voters authorized a $10 billion bond issue for the train, they’ve been sold a bill of goods.The original total estimated construction cost to taxpayers was $33 billion. That’s risen to at least $100 billion. The authority decided to offer service between San Francisco and Los Angeles in Phase I, then eventually extend the train service north to Sacramento and south to San Diego. Phase I was to have been completed by 2020. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company...
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Improve Your Fitness and Financial Life in 2024 With These WSJ Challenges
2Jan By adminNo Comments
Money

Improve Your Fitness and Financial Life in 2024 With These WSJ Challenges

Updated Jan. 2, 2024 9:28 am ETIn the past few years, The Wall Street Journal launched six email challenges to help our readers get better at something in their lives, from fitness to money. Each free challenge starts when you sign up, and continues with one email a week to your inbox—full of exercises and how-tos—for four to six weeks.For 2024, we’ve updated and refreshed these short courses for those looking for a project or challenge to kick off the year. While we don’t recommend doing all six challenges at once, we do recommend taking advantage of the fresh-start energy the new year brings and making plans for joy in January.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Car That Hit Pedestrians Outside New Year’s Eve Concert Was Filled With Gas Canisters, Police Say
2Jan By adminNo Comments
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Car That Hit Pedestrians Outside New Year’s Eve Concert Was Filled With Gas Canisters, Police Say

A car involved in a deadly New Year’s Eve crash outside a busy concert venue in Rochester, N.Y., was filled with at least a dozen gas canisters, police said.Two people were killed when a car hit another vehicle and plowed through a group of pedestrians outside the Kodak Center in Rochester as nearly a thousand concertgoers were leaving an event early Monday morning, authorities said.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Chevron Warns of Billions in Charges From California Challenges, Gulf of Mexico Assets
2Jan By adminNo Comments
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Chevron Warns of Billions in Charges From California Challenges, Gulf of Mexico Assets

Chevron said it will book $3.5 billion to $4 billion in charges for the fourth quarter, citing challenges tied to regulations in California and previously sold oil and gas production assets in the Gulf of Mexico.Chevron said it will impair a portion of its U.S. upstream assets, mostly in California, due to regulatory challenges in the state that have led to “lower anticipated future investment levels in its business plans.” Chevron said it will continue to operate the affected assets for many years.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Xi Jinping Says Happy New Year
2Jan By adminNo Comments
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Xi Jinping Says Happy New Year

China’s Supreme Leader Xi Jinping offered his traditional New Year’s greeting Monday with a warning. “The reunification of the motherland is a historical inevitability,” Mr. Xi said, according to the Chinese-language version documented by various news sources.“Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should be bound by a common sense of purpose and share in the glory of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” he added. The official English translation wrote “all Chinese” rather than “compatriots,” according to a Reuters dispatch.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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China’s EV Champion BYD Will Take on the World in 2024
2Jan By adminNo Comments
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China’s EV Champion BYD Will Take on the World in 2024

China’s electric-vehicle maker BYD will be on top of the world this year, with overseas markets its main battleground.At home, it already surpassed Volkswagen as the most popular car brand in China last year. Globally, it will likely overtake Tesla as the bestselling pure EV maker in 2024.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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All Passengers on Japan Airlines Jet Evacuated After Plane Collision
2Jan By adminNo Comments
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All Passengers on Japan Airlines Jet Evacuated After Plane Collision

Updated Jan. 2, 2024 7:04 am ETTOKYO—A Japan Coast Guard plane and a Japan Airlines passenger jet collided at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport but all 379 people on board the passenger jet were able to escape, Japan Airlines said.Five of the six people aboard the Coast Guard plane died in the crash, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said. He said they were planning to deliver relief supplies to people affected by an earthquake on the Japan Sea coast on New Year’s Day.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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