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Beijing — Hundreds of African political and business leaders filed into China’s Great Hall of the People on Thursday, eager to forge new partnerships, sign deals and build industry links. “Business is business. We buy from anywhere. In China the price is right,” Abakar Tahir Moussa, a Chadian construction company owner, told AFP as he showed off the business card of a potential new Chinese partner. He hoped to use the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, which concludes on Friday, to partner with Chinese companies on road and bridge projects. “I am here to network and win more business,” said Moussa,…

Mandeville-based arts and crafts franchise Twist Brands is acquiring a competitor in a move that is expected to boost the company’s annual revenue by 40 percent.The Paint With a Twist parent company acquired another “Paint & Sip” business, Pino Palette, in a deal announced Wednesday. Financial terms were not disclosed. Twist Brands officials said the acquisition will increase the company’s revenue to $100 million to $140 million. Pino’s Palette has 69 stores across the U.S. and Canada, which will continue to operate under a separate brand from Painting With a Twist. The agreement will allow Painting with a Twist to…

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A shooting at a Georgia high school on Wednesday left two students and two teachers dead, and authorities said the attack was carried out by a 14-year-old boy who attended the school.At least nine people were taken to the hospital after the incident at Apalachee High School in Winder, about 50 miles northeast of Atlanta.Authorities said at an afternoon news conference that the suspect was alive and in custody, and that he quickly surrendered after officers, including two school security guards, entered the school and confronted him.Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey took the unusual step of naming a…

AFPThe United States has supplied the Israeli Air Force with the F-35, the most advanced fighter jet ever built.Western governments are under pressure to halt arms sales to Israel because of its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.Israel is a major arms exporter, but its military relies heavily on imported planes, guided bombs and missiles to carry out what experts have described as one of the most intense and destructive aerial campaigns in recent history. Activists and some politicians in Israel’s Western allies say arms exports should be halted, saying Israel is not doing enough to protect civilian lives…

See what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. Information leaked from The Walt Disney Company earlier this summer included cruise line employee passport numbers, revenue from Disney+ and Genie+ (now Lightning Lane), and guest data. In July, a Russia-based group of self-described artists’ rights hacktivists known as “Nullbulge” uploaded 1.1 terabytes of data from media giant Disney’s internal Slack channels onto the internet.Slack is a business messaging app used by many major companies, especially as work has shifted to hybrid and remote roles following the COVID-19 pandemic. The software is available for computers and smartphones. “Consider the Disney breach a warning to future…

Report: US hunger to rise for consecutive years into 2023 (Reuters) – Hunger in the United States last year reached its highest level in a decade, with 18 million households, or 13.5 percent, struggling to get enough food, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report released on Wednesday. Hunger in the country has declined for many years, but has been on the rise since 2021. U.S. Census Bureau data from last year showed food insecurity increased following the end of a program that expanded food assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report did not explain the reason for the…

LVMH jewellery giant Tiffany & Co. plans to downsize its more than 12,000-square-foot flagship store in Shanghai, people familiar with the matter said, as luxury sales in the world’s second-largest economy plummet. Tiffany, which opened a two-story store at Shanghai’s Hong Kong Plaza in late 2019 with much fanfare, has decided to vacate about half of the space, the people said, asking not to be identified because the deal is private. The brand will vacate the store later this month and the landlord is already in talks with potential new tenants, the people said. Neither Tiffany nor Lai Sun Group,…

TORONTO: Hours after his New Democratic Party (NDP) walked away from a deal with the ruling Liberal government, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stressed he does not want an early federal election and said he would seek to work with his former partners. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Reuters) “I look forward to talking with (Jagmeet) Singh about how we continue to demonstrate that a confident country invests in its people and invests in its future, because that’s what we’re doing,” Trudeau said in a statement to media in the town of Rocky Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador. His comments came…

Former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming has announced that she is endorsing Sen. Kamala Harris for president. She made the announcement at an event at Duke University in North Carolina on Tuesday, making her the latest Republican to publicly say she will not support Donald Trump.”I don’t think there’s any room to write the names of candidates, especially in battleground states,” Cheney, the daughter of former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, told the crowd. “As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cherishes the Constitution, I’ve thought deeply about this and the current danger that Donald Trump poses.…