001/16 - British army told to stop non-essential training exercises to save money

British army told to stop non-essential training exercises to save money - BBC News BBC Homepage Skip to content Accessibility Help Your account Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds More menu More menu Search BBC Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds Close menu BBC News Menu Home Climate World UK Business Tech Science Entertainment & Arts Health In Pictures More BBC Verify Newsbeat Politics Parliaments Brexit British army told to stop non-essential training exercises to save money Image source, Getty Images By Jonathan Beale , Defence correspondent  and  André Rhoden-Paul Published 7 hours ago The Army has been told to stop "non-essential" training exercises to save money, according to a defence source. It will continue to train soldiers preparing to be deployed or on deployments - such as units sent to Estonia, the Falklands or Cyprus. But units back in the UK and who are not preparing for a specific deployment have been told to cut back on collective training exercises due to financial pressures. It comes as Prime Minister Andy Burnham faces pressure to increase spending on defence. The government is increasing defence spending to 2.5% of national income by next year, but is under growing pressure to reach a target of 3% by the end of the decade. A defence source said the plans mean not doing what he called "nice to have training" - like large live fire exercises and rehearsing platoon attacks in UK training areas like Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire and Sennybridge in Wales. It is understood planned exercises that were due to take place that are now cancelled include one involving the Royal Tank Regiment conducting live fire drills in Wales and a separate exercise involving tanks and Apache helicopters. This was not the choice of the army, the source said. The pause is expected to continue for most of this year. Other specific training aimed at modernising the Army – such as practising drone and counter-drone warfare is expected to continue. The Army says it is prioritising the training that has been informed by lessons learnt from the war in Ukraine, and is reviewing each request for training on a case-by-case basis. Though the government is increasing defence spending, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is still struggling to fund all its investment plans. Much of the new

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002/16 - Evening News on TV32 - Sep 3

Evening News on TV32 - Sep 3 - RTHK Apps A A A 繁 简 Eng Menu News Homepage Latest News Video Gallery News Programmes Photo Gallery News Bulletins News Archive Send To RTHK News Error News Archive Live Video News Search 2025 2026 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Latest News Local Greater China World News Finance Sport News Bulletins Photo Gallery Video Gallery Can search within past 12 months Home Evening News on TV32 - Sep 3 2026-09-03 HKT 20:40 Share this story Top stories for Thursday, Sep 3, 2026 - John Lee says Hong Kong is ready to show off its unique strengths at upcoming Apec summits. - Raids lead to more arrests but there's no trace of a so-called cancer vaccine at local clinics. - Three women are banned from a Kwun Tong mall after appearing in court over an alleged brawl there. Evening News on TV32 - Sep 3 All Local Greater China World News Finance Sport © rthk.hk E-mail: enews@rthk.gov.hk

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003/16 - Tensions flare as judge declines to remove juror in Lindsay Clancy trial

Lindsay Clancy trial tensions flare as judge declines to remove holdout juror - BBC News BBC Homepage Skip to content Accessibility Help Your account Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds More menu More menu Search BBC Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds Close menu BBC News Menu Home Climate World UK Business Tech Science Entertainment & Arts Health In Pictures More BBC Verify Newsbeat World Africa Asia Australia Europe Latin America Middle East US & Canada Tensions flare as judge declines to remove juror in Lindsay Clancy trial To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Figure caption, Watch: What it was like in court as Lindsay Clancy's lawyer asked judge to remove juror By Ana Faguy Reporting from court in Massachusetts Published 4 September 2026, 00:52 BST Updated 2 hours ago A judge has again told the deadlocked jury in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial to keep trying to reach a verdict after a dramatic sixth day of deliberations in a case that has gripped America. Tensions flared in court after the jury forewoman sent the judge a note saying one juror would not follow the judge's instructions on reasonable doubt. There was audible shock in the room when the defence team asked for the juror to be removed, a request that was denied by the judge. Clancy, 36, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her three children - Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan - at her Massachusetts family home on 24 January 2023. Warning: This article contains distressing details The former labour and delivery nurse does not deny strangling her two sons and daughter in the basement of their house. But her lawyer argues she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time, and could not distinguish right from wrong. The jury of nine women and three men in Plymouth has deliberated for some 35 hours without a verdict, following nearly six weeks of trial proceedings. The panel has twice previously sent the judge notes saying it could not come to a unanimous decision, but Thursday was the first hint of rancour in the deliberation room. Could Lindsay Clancy trial end in a mistrial? Here are the jury's options Published 4 hours ago To play this video

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004/16 - Farage senior aide filmed suggesting way to avoid donations law

Farage senior aide filmed suggesting way to avoid donations law - BBC News BBC Homepage Skip to content Accessibility Help Your account Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds More menu More menu Search BBC Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds Close menu BBC News Menu Home Climate World UK Business Tech Science Entertainment & Arts Health In Pictures More BBC Verify Newsbeat Politics Parliaments Brexit Farage senior aide filmed suggesting way to avoid donations law To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Figure caption, Watch: Undercover reporters posing as party donors meet with Nigel Farage By Chris Mason , Political editor  and  Harry Farley , Political correspondent Published 3 September 2026 Nigel Farage's senior aide suggested a way to get around electoral law to secure a foreign donation of £500,000 for Reform UK, according to undercover filming broadcast by Channel 4. Dan Jukes was filmed meeting a man posing as the British-based son of a rich American businessman. Electoral law sets out that to be a permissible donor to a UK political party you must be a UK registered voter, or a company registered in the UK. In this instance, the son would be a permissible donor, his father would not be. The undercover filming was done by a group called Verbatim Investigations, which was founded by journalists from the Centre for Climate Reporting. Channel 4 News say they have verified the material they were given and chose to broadcast. Reform UK denies any wrongdoing and claims to have "been the target of a hoax perpetuated by foreign funded climate change activists". The reporter posing as the son of the American donor is filmed raising a concern that his father wouldn't be able to directly donate to the party within the law. Filmed standing outside a pub in Westminster, Jukes said "you do realise that you can do it?" Channel 4 say Jukes was suggesting that the donation could be in the UK-based son's name, although the money would have come from his American father. "Actually that does strike me as a solution," Jukes continues. He then claims they have done it several times before, in exchanges bleeped out but which appear to refer to other instances where this mechanism had been used

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005/16 - Transplanted pig kidney works in US man's body for record 271 days

Pig kidney works in human body for 271 days - is this the future of organ transplants? - BBC News BBC Homepage Skip to content Accessibility Help Your account Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds More menu More menu Search BBC Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds Close menu BBC News Menu Home Climate World UK Business Tech Science Entertainment & Arts Health In Pictures More BBC Verify Newsbeat Health Transplanted pig kidney works in US man's body for record 271 days Image source, Kate Flock/Massachusetts General Hospital Image caption, Patient Tim Andrews (centre) with Dr Tatsuo Kawai (left) and Dr Leonardo Riella (right) By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent Published 4 hours ago A kidney transplanted from a pig has worked inside a patient for 271 days – the longest on record, say US doctors. Tim Andrews said the transplant gave him "hope" and spared him months of needing to go to hospital to have his blood filtered by a dialysis machine. The team at Mass General Brigham hospital say their work shows pig organs can be used as a "bridge" until a human transplant becomes available. But the pig organ eventually failed and was removed so Andrews needed a short bout of dialysis before a donor was found. Doctors and scientists are exploring xenotransplantation – using organs from other species – due to shortages of organs for transplants. In the US, around 100,000 people are waiting for a kidney while only 25,000 transplants occur each year. More than 7,000 people in the UK are on the kidney transplant list. Andrews was told it could take seven years to get to the top of the list, but that people live only five years, on average, on dialysis. "I had a little bit of a shortage of time… it becomes very depressing," he said. But he described the idea of a pig transplant as "hope" and the "light at the end of the tunnel". "Hope is the biggest thing, the chance to be free from the [dialysis] machine and live your life." Image source, Kate Flock/Massachusetts General Hospital Image caption, Tim Andrews preparing for surgery in January 2025 Image source, Kate Flock/Massachusetts General Hospital Image caption, The donor kidney had been harvested from a genetically modified pig to make it suitable for human donation Image

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006/16 - Farage senior aide filmed suggesting way to avoid donations law

Farage senior aide filmed suggesting way to avoid donations law - BBC News BBC Homepage Skip to content Accessibility Help Your account Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds More menu More menu Search BBC Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds Close menu BBC News Menu Home Climate World UK Business Tech Science Entertainment & Arts Health In Pictures More BBC Verify Newsbeat Politics Parliaments Brexit Farage senior aide filmed suggesting way to avoid donations law To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Figure caption, Watch: Undercover reporters posing as party donors meet with Nigel Farage By Chris Mason , Political editor  and  Harry Farley , Political correspondent Published 3 September 2026 Nigel Farage's senior aide suggested a way to get around electoral law to secure a foreign donation of £500,000 for Reform UK, according to undercover filming broadcast by Channel 4. Dan Jukes was filmed meeting a man posing as the British-based son of a rich American businessman. Electoral law sets out that to be a permissible donor to a UK political party you must be a UK registered voter, or a company registered in the UK. In this instance, the son would be a permissible donor, his father would not be. The undercover filming was done by a group called Verbatim Investigations, which was founded by journalists from the Centre for Climate Reporting. Channel 4 News say they have verified the material they were given and chose to broadcast. Reform UK denies any wrongdoing and claims to have "been the target of a hoax perpetuated by foreign funded climate change activists". The reporter posing as the son of the American donor is filmed raising a concern that his father wouldn't be able to directly donate to the party within the law. Filmed standing outside a pub in Westminster, Jukes said "you do realise that you can do it?" Channel 4 say Jukes was suggesting that the donation could be in the UK-based son's name, although the money would have come from his American father. "Actually that does strike me as a solution," Jukes continues. He then claims they have done it several times before, in exchanges bleeped out but which appear to refer to other instances where this mechanism had been used

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007/16 - Controversial Jackdaw gas field set to be approved in weeks, sources say

Jackdaw gas field set to be approved as soon as mid-September, sources say - BBC News BBC Homepage Skip to content Accessibility Help Your account Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds More menu More menu Search BBC Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds Close menu BBC News Menu Home Climate World UK Business Tech Science Entertainment & Arts Health In Pictures More BBC Verify Newsbeat Scotland Scotland Politics Scotland Business Edinburgh, Fife & East Glasgow & West Highlands & Islands NE, Orkney & Shetland South Tayside & Central Controversial Jackdaw gas field set to be approved in weeks, sources say Image caption, The Jackdaw gas platform and drilling rig stand east of Aberdeen in the North Sea By Simon Jack Business editor Published 4 hours ago The UK government is set to give the go-ahead for a controversial new gas field off the coast of Aberdeen, the BBC understands. Approval for the Jackdaw project could come as soon as mid-September, just before Parliament breaks for party conference season, according to government and industry sources. The gas field was approved by the former Conservative government in 2022 but was delayed by a legal ruling from a Scottish court, after environmental groups successfully argued that consent was given without fully considering the climate impact. Jackdaw's owner says it will provide gas to supply up to 6% of the UK's demand at peak production, but environmental groups say it will only supply 2%. Campaigners launched legal challenges after Jackdaw was approved in 2022 and when the Rosebank oil field off Shetland was given the green light in 2023. The Court of Session in Edinburgh ruled last year that Rosebank and Jackdaw had been unlawfully approved because the government had failed to take into account the climate impact of burning extracted oil and gas from the sites. A judge ruled that more detailed climate assessments had to be published, and these updated estimates were put out for consultation in July. Both Jackdaw and Rosebank are operated by Adura, a joint venture between energy giants Shell and Norway's Equinor. Aberdeen-based firm Ithaca also owns 20% of Rosebank. Adura has estimated that Jackdaw could produce 35.8m tonnes of carbon over its 11-year lifetime, the equivalent of 90% of Scotland's emissions for 2023. But it said a more likely estimate was about 23.6m

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008/16 - Hang Seng Index rebounds in line with global rally

Hang Seng Index rebounds in line with global rally - RTHK Apps A A A 繁 简 Eng Menu News Homepage Latest News Video Gallery News Programmes Photo Gallery News Bulletins News Archive Send To RTHK News Error News Archive Live Video News Search 2025 2026 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Latest News Local Greater China World News Finance Sport News Bulletins Photo Gallery Video Gallery Can search within past 12 months Home Hang Seng Index rebounds in line with global rally 2026-09-04 HKT 10:37 Share this story The Hang Seng Index opened up 302 points, or 1.2 percent, at 25,515 in Hong Kong on Friday. File photo: RTHK Asian shares rose on Friday as investors embraced a global rally before crucial US jobs data while bonds found some much needed relief after a top Federal Reserve official cooled rate hike fears and dragged the dollar lower. In Hong Kong, the benchmark Hang Seng Index opened up 302 points, or 1.2 percent, at 25,515 and gained more ground to be up 511 points in early trading. The tech index opened 65 points, or 1.46 percent, higher at 4,533 while the China Enterprises Index rose 96 points, or 1.15 percent, to 8,481. Across the border, the Shanghai Composite Index inched up 13 points, or 0.34 percent, to 3,955. The Shenzhen Component Index rose 100 points, or 0.74 percent, to 13,725 while the ChiNext was up 32 points, or 0.97 percent, at 3,344. In Tokyo, the Nikkei opened 284 points, or 0.44 percent, higher at 64,498 and gained more ground to be 415 points up at one stage before lunch. In Seoul, the Kospi was 62 points higher before noon after opening up almost 75 points, or 1.14 percent, at 6,654, led by gains in heavyweight chipmakers. The gains came after the dollar's retreat turbocharged a rally in the yen, which has gained 2.6 percent ⁠this week to trade at 155.7 a dollar, putting it within striking distance of the 155.2 level reached after joint intervention by Tokyo and Washington in late July. Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller said recent data suggested some signs of disinflation and that, if upcoming reports reinforced that trend, he

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009/16 - Nvidia to buy AI platform Hugging Face for US$12.9b

Nvidia to buy AI platform Hugging Face for US$12.9b - RTHK Apps A A A 繁 简 Eng Menu News Homepage Latest News Video Gallery News Programmes Photo Gallery News Bulletins News Archive Send To RTHK News Error News Archive Live Video News Search 2025 2026 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Latest News Local Greater China World News Finance Sport News Bulletins Photo Gallery Video Gallery Can search within past 12 months Home Nvidia to buy AI platform Hugging Face for US$12.9b 2026-09-03 HKT 22:29 Share this story The deal to buy Hugging Face is expected to cement Nvidia as a central player in the market for open models that users can freely download, run and customise. File photo: Reuters Nvidia will buy popular developer platform Hugging Face for US$12.93 billion, betting that support for open AI models will drive future demand even as its biggest customers develop their own chips to reduce reliance on the semiconductor giant. Shares of the company were up 1.5 percent after the deal was announced on Thursday, which ranks among its biggest. The deal will cement Nvidia as a central player in the market for open models that users can freely download, run and customise, unlike the closed systems built by OpenAI and Anthropic. Nvidia has already played an active role in backing the open AI industry with its widely used Nemotron model. Acquiring Hugging Face will give it direct access to a platform developers use to collaborate, test and share tools using various open AI models, potentially providing valuable insight and data to help it narrow the technology gap with top US and Chinese labs. "Hugging Face will remain an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said, adding that his company's chips would not be required to build on or deploy through Hugging Face. Under the deal, Nvidia will pay about US$11.9 billion to Hugging Face investors, while offering an equity-based retention programme of up to US$1 billion for employees who join Nvidia. The two companies already work together to help developers use Nvidia's computing services on the platform. Hugging Face was valued at US$4.5 billion in its last disclosed funding

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010/16 - Controversial Jackdaw gas field set to be approved in weeks, sources say

Jackdaw gas field set to be approved as soon as mid-September, sources say - BBC News BBC Homepage Skip to content Accessibility Help Your account Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds More menu More menu Search BBC Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds Close menu BBC News Menu Home Climate World UK Business Tech Science Entertainment & Arts Health In Pictures More BBC Verify Newsbeat Scotland Scotland Politics Scotland Business Edinburgh, Fife & East Glasgow & West Highlands & Islands NE, Orkney & Shetland South Tayside & Central Controversial Jackdaw gas field set to be approved in weeks, sources say Image caption, The Jackdaw gas platform and drilling rig stand east of Aberdeen in the North Sea By Simon Jack Business editor Published 4 hours ago The UK government is set to give the go-ahead for a controversial new gas field off the coast of Aberdeen, the BBC understands. Approval for the Jackdaw project could come as soon as mid-September, just before Parliament breaks for party conference season, according to government and industry sources. The gas field was approved by the former Conservative government in 2022 but was delayed by a legal ruling from a Scottish court, after environmental groups successfully argued that consent was given without fully considering the climate impact. Jackdaw's owner says it will provide gas to supply up to 6% of the UK's demand at peak production, but environmental groups say it will only supply 2%. Campaigners launched legal challenges after Jackdaw was approved in 2022 and when the Rosebank oil field off Shetland was given the green light in 2023. The Court of Session in Edinburgh ruled last year that Rosebank and Jackdaw had been unlawfully approved because the government had failed to take into account the climate impact of burning extracted oil and gas from the sites. A judge ruled that more detailed climate assessments had to be published, and these updated estimates were put out for consultation in July. Both Jackdaw and Rosebank are operated by Adura, a joint venture between energy giants Shell and Norway's Equinor. Aberdeen-based firm Ithaca also owns 20% of Rosebank. Adura has estimated that Jackdaw could produce 35.8m tonnes of carbon over its 11-year lifetime, the equivalent of 90% of Scotland's emissions for 2023. But it said a more likely estimate was about 23.6m

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011/16 - Festival seeks tourism bonanza in finer things in life

Festival seeks tourism bonanza in finer things in life - RTHK Apps A A A 繁 简 Eng Menu News Homepage Latest News Video Gallery News Programmes Photo Gallery News Bulletins News Archive Send To RTHK News Error News Archive Live Video News Search 2025 2026 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Latest News Local Greater China World News Finance Sport News Bulletins Photo Gallery Video Gallery Can search within past 12 months Home Festival seeks tourism bonanza in finer things in life 2026-09-03 HKT 18:02 Share this story Algernon Yau, centre, says the festival can bring high-spending visitors to the city. Photo: RTHK Hong Kong will host its inaugural "Festival of Connoisseurs" from November 4 to 6 at AsiaWorld-Expo, showcasing an array of luxury goods such as private jets, supercars, yachts, jewellery, fine art, rare wines and haute cuisine. The high-end exhibition features Asia’s first "citywide exhibition" model and will extend beyond AsiaWorld-Expo to landmark venues across Hong Kong when it expands to a full-scale format next year. Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Algernon Yau said the event is the first to be funded by the government's HK$100 million initiative – outlined in this year's Budget – aimed at attracting large-scale international exhibitions with new concepts. “It showcases to the world that Hong Kong is a good place, a platform, for the branded goods, either from the mainland or from overseas,” he said. “So the impact and [economic] effect has to be evaluated later on after the event is introduced after November this year. “But, for a normal exhibition, the spending power of an individual is around HK$9,300. I believe this kind of mega, high-profile event, with super yachts, super cars, the visitors will spend more in Hong Kong and will bring benefits to the Hong Kong economic development.” Dan Ye, vice president at event organiser Informa Markets, said the event is expected to attract 3,000 high-end visitors during its soft launch in November, with that figure doubling for the full-scale launch next year. He noted that while the airport area will serve as the main exhibition site, several iconic local landmarks are also set to host events in the future. “We

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012/16 - US investigating if missile hit Iran wedding, Vance says

US investigating if missile hit Iran wedding, Vance says - BBC News BBC Homepage Skip to content Accessibility Help Your account Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds More menu More menu Search BBC Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds Close menu BBC News Menu Home Climate World UK Business Tech Science Entertainment & Arts Health In Pictures More BBC Verify Newsbeat World Africa Asia Australia Europe Latin America Middle East US & Canada US investigating if missile hit Iran wedding, Vance says To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Figure caption, Watch: JD Vance "extremely sceptical" over alleged strike on Iranian wedding By Dan Sales Published 5 hours ago The US military is investigating Iranian claims that its strikes killed at least four people including two children at a wedding in southern Iran, Vice-President JD Vance has said. The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) - a humanitarian group - said shrapnel from a missile hit the ceremony at a home in Sirik on Tuesday, prompting Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei to declare it a "war crime". US missiles were fired the same day over "attempted attacks" by Iran on American forces, but a US Central Command spokesperson said it "never targets civilians". Speaking on Thursday, Vance said he was "extremely sceptical" over reports of the alleged strike but confirmed the US would investigate. Iran says US strike killed four at wedding in 'war crime' as US denies targeting civilians Published 1 day ago "I will say that the Iranian state media has not been a very good scribe about what's happened in the conflict thus far. So I'm extremely sceptical of this," Vance told a White House briefing. "I know that we're investigating." Iran has launched fresh attacks on US bases in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates in response to the alleged strike. The IRCS said 67 people were hurt when shrapnel from the missile hit a family wedding ceremony, killing at least four people. Iranian state media said a fifth person, a woman aged 22, had died in hospital shortly after. The four people killed were named locally as Zarkhatoon Taheri, 50; Kolsum Mallahi Nazhdnia, 43; Mohammad Mallahi, 16; and Amirali Karimi, four. Image source, Iranian Red Crescent Society Image caption, A

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013/16 - Veterans, rookies chase Asian Games fencing glory

Veterans, rookies chase Asian Games fencing glory - RTHK Apps A A A 繁 简 Eng Menu News Homepage Latest News Video Gallery News Programmes Photo Gallery News Bulletins News Archive Send To RTHK News Error News Archive Live Video News Search 2025 2026 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Latest News Local Greater China World News Finance Sport News Bulletins Photo Gallery Video Gallery Can search within past 12 months Home Veterans, rookies chase Asian Games fencing glory 2026-09-03 HKT 17:51 Share this story The SAR delegation will feature 24 athletes competing across individual and team events in all three disciplines — foil, épée, and sabre. Photo: RTHK Hong Kong, China will field a diverse fencing squad of seasoned veterans and rising stars at the Asian Games in Nagoya, aiming to match or surpass the historic medal haul achieved in the previous edition. The SAR delegation will feature 24 athletes competing across individual and team events in all three disciplines — foil, épée, and sabre. Head coach Zheng Kangzhao noted that this year's roster showcases a "veterans-leading-newcomers" strategy, with several debutants earning their place on the continental stage. Zheng explained that many of the new faces have quickly risen to a level where they can compete on equal footing with — or even outperform — their senior teammates, which accounts for their strong representation in the squad. "I think our team now, across all six team events, is more evenly matched in terms of strength. They are more balanced — there's no situation where one stands out while the rest lag far behind," he said. "Also, when it comes to the four-member lineups, each of them possesses a certain level of skill and a very strong competitive edge. I feel their standard is no lower than the last edition's, and I think they are even more balanced overall." At the previous Asian Games in Hangzhou, the fencing team delivered a commendable performance, securing one gold, one silver, and seven bronze medals. Zheng expressed hope that the squad would at least match that tally while performing to their full potential and achieving a breakthrough. Among the key contenders is the foil team of Edgar

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015/16 - US stocks rise on hopes Fed will leave rates unchanged

US stocks rise on hopes Fed will leave rates unchanged - RTHK Apps A A A 繁 简 Eng Menu News Homepage Latest News Video Gallery News Programmes Photo Gallery News Bulletins News Archive Send To RTHK News Error News Archive Live Video News Search 2025 2026 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Latest News Local Greater China World News Finance Sport News Bulletins Photo Gallery Video Gallery Can search within past 12 months Home US stocks rise on hopes Fed will leave rates unchanged 2026-09-04 HKT 07:55 Share this story Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said he would be inclined to let key interest rates stand should upcoming data confirm that price pressures are easing. Photo: Reuters Wall Street rallied on Thursday as investors curbed their rate hike bets after US Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said he would support holding the Fed funds target rate steady if data shows inflationary pressures are abating. All three major US stock indexes closed at least 1 percent higher, with the Nasdaq enjoying a boost from the "Magnificent Seven" group of AI-related megacap stocks. All three indexes were on track for weekly gains. Fed Governor Christopher Waller said he would be inclined to let key interest rates stand should upcoming data confirm that price pressures are easing, but added he would support a rate hike if inflation fails to cool down. Following Waller's remarks, financial markets moderated expectations for rate hikes at the Fed's September meeting, lowering the likelihood to 50.4 percent from 63.2 percent on Wednesday, according to CME's FedWatch tool. The benchmark US Treasury yield pulled back for the second straight session after touching its highest level since November 2023. Rate-hike expectations had spiked in recent sessions, as long-dated bond yields surged to the highest levels in years on a global bond sell-off driven by fears of inflation, ballooning debt and geopolitical uncertainty. "Commentary from Fed Governor Waller (is) providing a broad lift for markets writ large," said Bill Northey, senior investment director at US Bank Wealth Management, Billings, Montana. "Underneath the broad market indices, we're seeing continued influence by those late reporters from the second-quarter earnings reporting season," Northey added. "And that's driving

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016/16 - Argentine leader says oil firms working off Falklands face sanctions

Argentine leader says oil firms working off Falklands face sanctions - BBC News BBC Homepage Skip to content Accessibility Help Your account Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds More menu More menu Search BBC Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds Close menu BBC News Menu Home Climate World UK Business Tech Science Entertainment & Arts Health In Pictures More BBC Verify Newsbeat World Africa Asia Australia Europe Latin America Middle East US & Canada Argentine leader says oil firms working off Falklands face sanctions Image source, Reuters By Will Grant , BBC's Mexico, Central America and Cuba correspondent  and  Chris Graham Published 4 September 2026, 03:01 BST Updated 35 minutes ago Argentina's President, Javier Milei, has heightened tensions with the UK over the Falklands, warning he will impose economic sanctions on firms which exploit oil close to the British overseas territory. In a national address, Milei said the "winds of change" favoured Argentina's claim to the islands, emboldened by signs the US might reconsider its stance of neutrality on the issue. Milei said the Sea Lion oilfield, where a British and an Israeli firm are due to begin exploration work, was a "clear and present danger". More than 40 years after the war over the territory, sovereignty of the archipelago in the south-west Atlantic Ocean remains hotly disputed between Britain and Argentina. BBC News is seeking comment from the UK government on Milei's statement. It reiterated this week that Falkland islanders "are British with a right to determine their own future". Milei announced his sanctions plan surrounded by his cabinet at the presidential palace, reiterating that the Falklands were "historically and legally" Argentinean. The crux was a proposal to introduce a bill to parliament to impose sanctions on energy firms planning to begin oil exploration off the Falklands. The Sea Lion oilfield , around 130 miles from the islands, contains an estimated 1.7 billion barrels of oil. Two oil companies – Britain's Rockhopper Exploration and Israel's Navitas Petroleum – are due to begin exploration work in the Sea Lion oilfield off the Falklands coast within two years, something Milei said Argentina could not allow. "If we do not act swiftly in a few months, they will have the material capacity to access the oil that lies underneath our sea – something that has never

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