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TIANJIN, CHINA >> Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said New Delhi was committed to improving ties with China in a key meeting with President Xi Jinping on Sunday, as both leaders discussed the need to expand trade and investment ties against the backdrop of U.S. tariffs.
KYIV >> Russian drone attacks on power facilities in northern and southern Ukraine overnight left nearly 60,000 customers without electricity, with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowing to retaliate by ordering more strikes deep inside Russia.
WASHINGTON >> A political standoff over President Donald Trump’s plan to crack down on crime and illegal immigration in Chicago intensified on Sunday as a top administration official promised to deploy more federal officers and the Democratic governor of Illinois portrayed Trump as a threat to democracy.
The Honolulu Department of Facility Maintenance is expected this week to open the Kaelepulu Stream mouth within Kailua Bay starting Tuesday, city officials announced.

Yesterday

From the brink of sweeping Marquette on Friday night, the Hawaii women’s volleyball team has now lost six consecutive sets after Utah State swept the Rainbow Wahine 25-19, 25-19, 25-23 tonight in the Hawaiian Airlines Wahine Volleyball Classic at Bankoh Arena at Stan Sheriff Center.
WASHINGTON >> A large buildup of U.S. naval forces in and around the Southern Caribbean has officials in Caracas and experts in the United States asking: Is the move aimed at combating drug cartels, as the Trump administration has suggested, or is it for something else entirely?
TIANJIN, China >> Xi Jinping could hardly have scripted a more favorable moment. This weekend, the leaders of India and Russia will join him at a security summit in China — one leader pushed away by President Donald Trump’s tariffs, the other brought out of isolation by his embrace.
KYIV, Ukraine >> Ukrainian former parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy was shot dead in the western city of Lviv today and a search was under way for the killer.
NEW YORK >> A new $250 “visa integrity fee” imposed on travelers to the United States risks piling more pressure on the struggling travel industry, as overseas arrivals continue to fall due to President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration and hostility to many foreign countries.
The prime minister of Yemen’s Houthi government and several other ministers were killed in an Israeli strike on the capital Sanaa, the news agency run by the group said today, citing a statement by the head of the Houthi Supreme Political Council, Mahdi al-Mashat.

Aug 29, 2025

No-frills pioneer Spirit Airlines filed for bankruptcy protection today for the second time in a year after a previous reorganization failed to put it on firmer financial footing.
A 51-year-old man wanted for stabbing a man in the chest was arrested and charged with assault in the first degree, according to the Honolulu Police Department.
Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.
NEW YORK >> A divided U.S. appeals court ruled today that most of Donald Trump’s tariffs are illegal, undercutting the Republican president’s use of the levies as a key international economic policy tool.
The S&P 500 ended down from record highs today, with losses in Dell, Nvidia and other AI-related stocks, while investors parsed inflation data showing tariffs have started feeding into prices.
WASHINGTON >> U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has named his deputy, Jim O’Neill, as acting director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after ousting the former director less than a month into her tenure.
NEW YORK >> Patients are inundating some New York City medical practices with messages that they are experiencing COVID symptoms amid a late-summer surge of coronavirus infections and the appearance of a new variant.
TOKYO >> Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi agreed today to deepen economic and security ties as New Delhi confronts new U.S. tariffs and Tokyo looks to counter China’s growing influence.

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