🇯🇵 VP Harris seeks computer chip partners in Japan meetings
Vice President Kamala Harris said the administration was looking for new investments and partnerships as she sat down with Japanese technology executives on Wednesday. The morning meeting on her last full day in Tokyo reflects the administration’s focus on boosting semiconductor manufacturing and expanding the supply chain for critical materials.
With China investing in computer chips of its own, the US is trying to increase its domestic semiconductor manufacturing while also working to solidify its technology relationships with South Korea, Taiwan and Japan.
Much like the United States has done, Japan has set up its own fund to support semiconductor production. Out of $4.3 billion, $3.3 billion is being provided in subsidies for a new factory in Kumamoto, in the country’s southwest.
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Vice President Kamala Harris said the administration was looking for new investments and partnerships as she sat down with Japanese technology executives on Wednesday. The morning meeting on her last full day in Tokyo reflects the administration’s focus on boosting semiconductor manufacturing and expanding the supply chain for critical materials.
With China investing in computer chips of its own, the US is trying to increase its domestic semiconductor manufacturing while also working to solidify its technology relationships with South Korea, Taiwan and Japan.
Much like the United States has done, Japan has set up its own fund to support semiconductor production. Out of $4.3 billion, $3.3 billion is being provided in subsidies for a new factory in Kumamoto, in the country’s southwest.
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Hurricane Ian made landfall as a Category 4 storm just after 3 p.m. on Wednesday, with winds topping 155 miles per hour, the US National Hurricane Center has confirmed. The eye of the storm is sitting about 20 miles from Fort Myers, Florida, which has already…
‼️ UPDATE: US National Hurricane Center downgrades Hurricane Ian to a Category 2 cyclone
Despite the agency downgrade, officials are warning that the slow-moving storm will continue to batter Florida with “catastrophic storm surge, winds and flooding.” Ian’s new categorization comes seven hours after it made landfall.
Despite the agency downgrade, officials are warning that the slow-moving storm will continue to batter Florida with “catastrophic storm surge, winds and flooding.” Ian’s new categorization comes seven hours after it made landfall.
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‼️ Six explosions sound off in Kherson, air defenses believed deployed ➡️ LIVE UPDATES
‼️ LPR may become part of Russia as a Republic - LPR Ambassador to Russia Miroshnik
The Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) can become part of Russia as a republic, LPR Ambassador to Russia Rodion Miroshnik said in an interview with Sputnik.
"I think that we will be admitted to the Russian Federation as a republic, and the rest of the details, how they will be regulated, what rights, what duties our republic will have, leadership, power, system of power - these will be described in legislative documents to be adopted in the very near future," Miroshnik said.
"We will be endowed with certain autonomous rights. What exactly - everything will be described in the law," he said.
The Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) can become part of Russia as a republic, LPR Ambassador to Russia Rodion Miroshnik said in an interview with Sputnik.
"I think that we will be admitted to the Russian Federation as a republic, and the rest of the details, how they will be regulated, what rights, what duties our republic will have, leadership, power, system of power - these will be described in legislative documents to be adopted in the very near future," Miroshnik said.
"We will be endowed with certain autonomous rights. What exactly - everything will be described in the law," he said.
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‼️ UPDATE: US National Hurricane Center downgrades Hurricane Ian to a Category 2 cyclone Despite the agency downgrade, officials are warning that the slow-moving storm will continue to batter Florida with “catastrophic storm surge, winds and flooding.” Ian’s…
⚡️ UPDATE: Power outages in Florida have surpassed the 2 million marker
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📦 Amazon hikes pay for warehouse and delivery workers
Average starting pay for front-line employees in customer fulfillment and transportation is increasing from $18 per hour to more than $19 per hour, with employees earning between $16 and $26 per hour depending on their position and location in the US. The company also announced additional investments in career development programs, building on its commitment to provide free college tuition to hourly employees. This brings the company’s total investment in benefits offered to its team to nearly $10 billion this year alone.
Workers at several Amazon facilities have taken steps to organize, and earlier this year, workers at Amazon’s warehouse in Staten Island, New York, successfully voted to form the company’s first US union. Amazon faces another union election at a site near Albany, New York, next month.
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Average starting pay for front-line employees in customer fulfillment and transportation is increasing from $18 per hour to more than $19 per hour, with employees earning between $16 and $26 per hour depending on their position and location in the US. The company also announced additional investments in career development programs, building on its commitment to provide free college tuition to hourly employees. This brings the company’s total investment in benefits offered to its team to nearly $10 billion this year alone.
Workers at several Amazon facilities have taken steps to organize, and earlier this year, workers at Amazon’s warehouse in Staten Island, New York, successfully voted to form the company’s first US union. Amazon faces another union election at a site near Albany, New York, next month.
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‼️ UPDATE: US National Hurricane Center downgrades Hurricane Ian to a Category 2 cyclone Despite the agency downgrade, officials are warning that the slow-moving storm will continue to batter Florida with “catastrophic storm surge, winds and flooding.” Ian’s…
🚨 LATEST: Hurricane Ian Downgraded Once Again to Category 1 Storm
Officials downgraded Hurricane Ian to a Category 1 storm late Wednesday, eight hours after it made landfall in Florida. The agency’s latest bulletin notes Ian has sustained wind speeds of 90 mph (150km/h).
Officials downgraded Hurricane Ian to a Category 1 storm late Wednesday, eight hours after it made landfall in Florida. The agency’s latest bulletin notes Ian has sustained wind speeds of 90 mph (150km/h).
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⚡️ The Swedish Coast Guard found fourth Nord Stream gas leak in the Baltic Sea - reports
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📹 A resident of Donetsk explains why she wants Donbass to become part of Russia.
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🇧🇷 At least three people have been confirmed dead, with as many as 15 missing after a bridge collapsed as some vehicles were travelling across it in the northern Brazilian state of Amazonas, firefighters and local media said.
▪️ The Amazonas Fire Department said on Wednesday it was looking for more than a dozen people after the concrete bridge on the BR-319 highway in Careiro, a town about 100km (62 miles) south of the provincial capital Manaus, collapsed.
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▪️ The Amazonas Fire Department said on Wednesday it was looking for more than a dozen people after the concrete bridge on the BR-319 highway in Careiro, a town about 100km (62 miles) south of the provincial capital Manaus, collapsed.
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🤔 US politicians are delusional if they think Moscow will not defend the territories that have or may become part of Russia as a result of their residents' freely expressed popular will, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said in an opinion-editorial piece published by the National Interest.
💭 "I would like to add that certain American politicians are under a delusion if they think that our readiness to defend our territory does not apply to Crimea or to territories that may become part of Russia on the basis of a free expression of popular will," Antonov said on Wednesday.
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💭 "I would like to add that certain American politicians are under a delusion if they think that our readiness to defend our territory does not apply to Crimea or to territories that may become part of Russia on the basis of a free expression of popular will," Antonov said on Wednesday.
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⚡️ Incident on Nord Stream pipelines occurred in zone controlled by US intelligence, Russia says
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⚡️ Finnish border to be closed to Russian tourists on Friday night - reports
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📹 Russia's MoD has published footage showing the Uragan MLRS system in combat as part of the special military operation.
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📌 LIVE UPDATES: Seven injured as Ukraine shells refugee сonvoy in Kharkov region
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🔥 ⚽️ Portugal legend Luis Figo has helped set a world record for the highest football game, played at an altitude of 20,230 ft in zero gravity conditions.
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🇨🇦 Quebec Premier Francois Legault has stated that increasing immigration levels will be “a bit suicidal” for the mainly French-speaking Canadian province.
▪️ The statement was preceded by Legault arguing that non-French speaking immigration could threaten social cohesion in the province.
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▪️ The statement was preceded by Legault arguing that non-French speaking immigration could threaten social cohesion in the province.
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⚡️ Ukrainian troops attack gas pipeline in the Kherson region, Novaya Kakhovka left without gas, local authorities say
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⚡️ Ukrainian shelling kills around 30 refugees in Kharkov region, LPR ambassador says
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🦈 No, no, no! It’s NOT a horror movie… it’s one more phobia…
😲 Hurricane Ian hit Florida so severely that a shark washed up into a neighborhood street from a nearby beach.
▪️ A video widely shared on social media shows the dangerous animal swimming in the rising floodwaters near Fort Myers beach.
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😲 Hurricane Ian hit Florida so severely that a shark washed up into a neighborhood street from a nearby beach.
▪️ A video widely shared on social media shows the dangerous animal swimming in the rising floodwaters near Fort Myers beach.
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