The European Union is drawing up plans to impose customs duties on cheap goods bought from Chinese online retailers including Temu, Shein, and AliExpress, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing three people briefed on the matter.
TOKYO >> Japan’s government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernise the bureaucracy.
TOKYO >> Japan began circulating its first new banknotes in 20 years on Wednesday, featuring three-dimensional portraits of the founders of financial and female education institutions in an attempt to frustrate counterfeiters.
Russian attack submarines have conducted missions around the Irish Sea twice since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing three people familiar with the matter.
The Honolulu Police Department is asking for the public’s help finding four males wanted for the alleged Sunday morning shooting of a 15-year-old boy in Waianae.
NATAL, Brazil >> Passengers from an Air Europa flight diverted to northeastern Brazil due to severe turbulence on Monday said they feared for their lives during the incident which injured around 30 people and left six in hospital.
President Joe Biden will hold a meeting with Democratic governors on Wednesday, a White House official said, in the wake of his shaky debate performance last week with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON>> The United States will soon announce more than $2.3 billion in new security assistance for Ukraine, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said today during a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart at the Pentagon.
GAZA >> Israeli forces bombarded several areas of the southern Gaza Strip today and thousands of Palestinians fled their homes in a possible final push of Israel’s intensive military operations in nine months of war.
NEW DELHI, India >> At least 116 people, many of them women and children, were killed in a stampede at a Hindu religious gathering in north India today, authorities said, in one of the country’s worst such tragedies in years.
NEW YORK >> Rudy Giuliani — the former mayor of New York, top federal prosecutor and a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump — has been disbarred from the practice of law effective immediately, a New York state appellate court…
NEW YORK >> A New York judge today delayed Donald Trump’s sentencing for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star until Sept. 18, after the former U.S. president asked for a chance to argue he should…
BRIDGETOWN, West Indies >> Hurricane Beryl barreled toward Jamaica as a powerful Category 5 storm today after making landfall on smaller islands in the Caribbean, downing power lines, bringing floods and reportedly killing two people.
Two juveniles and a 19-year-old were released pending investigation after allegedly donning masks and robbing a 7-Eleven store in Kapolei at gunpoint early Sunday morning by threatening to shoot the 64-year-old cashier, according to law…
Hawaii’s congressional delegation has not shown the strength and courage others in their party have. Bad-mouthing and blaming Republicans, locally and nationally, has been a perennial strategy of the Democratic Party. Too bad reality…
Like 50 million other people, my wife and I watched the debate on Thursday. While we saw Donald Trump repeatedly lie (he is an experienced, pathological liar, so he is good at it), we also cringed at Joe Biden’s fumbling.
Given the pre-debate criticism, CNN was more than fair in managing the presidential debate. Time was allotted fairly and both were able to speak without interruption.
For Americans, the problem with Monday’s Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity is that justice delayed is justice denied. Now the criminal case against Donald Trump, which should have been tried ahead of the hush money case, will…
It’s a sad day for America. The Supreme Court shows its lack of integrity and character by handing down limp opinions. To rationalize that part of what Donald Trump did as president was covered by immunity is a falsehood. Trump attempted…
Wake up and smell the coffee — and read about it, too. Under a law passed last year that took effect Monday, Hawaii-branded coffee products retailing here will have to follow new labeling rules.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Friday ruling upholding a ban on homeless residents sleeping outdoors may prove difficult for homeless populations in some states.
Due to the spike in the number of small earthquakes over the weekend at the summit of Kilauea, Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park officials are advising the public to expect temporary area closures if the seismic activity persists.
State authorities said two Maui men were arrested just before midnight Friday on suspicion of hunting without a valid license on private property belonging to Oprah Winfrey.
Two people were sent to the hospital, one critically, after a man driving a vehicle reportedly hit a female pedestrian at the lower level of Honolulu airport this afternoon, according to Honolulu Emergency Medical Services.
The Hawaii Department of Health has confirmed another travel-related case of dengue on Oahu, about a week after a previous case was reported, bringing the total to six in the state so far this year.