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B&M is bringing back huge toy deal loved by parents this week – just in time for Christmas shoppingJERUSALEM (AP) — A new round of Israeli airstrikes in Yemen on Thursday targeted the Houthi rebel-held capital of Sanaa and multiple ports, while the World Health Organization's director-general said the bombardment occurred nearby as he prepared to board a flight in Sanaa, with a crew member injured. “The air traffic control tower, the departure lounge — just a few meters from where we were — and the runway were damaged,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on the social media platform X. He added that he and U.N. colleagues were safe. “We will need to wait for the damage to the airport to be repaired before we can leave,” he said, without mentioning the source of the bombardment. The Israeli strikes followed several days of Houthi launches setting off sirens in Israel. The Israeli military said it attacked infrastructure used by the Houthis at the international airport in Sanaa and ports in the cities of Hodeida, Al-Salif and Ras Qantib, along with power stations, asserting they were used to smuggle in Iranian weapons and for the entry of senior Iranian officials. Israel's military didn't immediately respond to questions about Tedros' post but issued a statement saying it had "capabilities to strike very far from Israel’s territory — precisely, powerfully, and repetitively.” The strikes came a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “the Houthis, too, will learn what Hamas and Hezbollah and Assad’s regime and others learned" as his military has battled those more powerful proxies of Iran. The Iran-backed Houthis' media outlet confirmed the strikes in a Telegram post but gave no immediate details. The U.S. military also has targeted the Houthis in Yemen in recent days. The United Nations has noted that the targeted ports are important entryways for humanitarian aid for Yemen, the poorest Arab nation that plunged into a civil war in 2014 . Over the weekend, 16 people were wounded when a Houthi missile hit a playground in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv . Last week, Israeli jets struck Sanaa and Hodeida, killing nine people, calling it a response to previous Houthi attacks. The Houthis also have been targeting shipping on the Red Sea corridor, calling it solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. The U.N. Security Council has scheduled an emergency meeting Monday in response to an Israeli request that the council condemn the Houthi attacks and Iran for supplying weapons to the rebels. Meanwhile, an Israeli strike killed five Palestinian journalists outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip overnight , the territory's Health Ministry said. The Israeli military said that all were militants posing as reporters. The strike hit a car outside Al-Awda Hospital in the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. The journalists were working for the local news outlet Al-Quds Today, a television channel affiliated with the Islamic Jihad militant group. Islamic Jihad is a smaller and more extreme ally of Hamas and took part in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack in southern Israel, which ignited the war. The Israeli military identified four of the men as combat propagandists and said that intelligence, including a list of Islamic Jihad operatives found by soldiers in Gaza, had confirmed that all five were affiliated with the group. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian militant groups operate political, media and charitable operations in addition to their armed wings. Associated Press footage showed the incinerated shell of a van, with press markings visible on the back doors. Sobbing young men attended the funeral outside the hospital. The bodies were wrapped in shrouds, with blue press vests draped over them. The Committee to Protect Journalists says more than 130 Palestinian reporters have been killed since the start of the war. Israel hasn't allowed foreign reporters to enter Gaza except on military embeds. Israel has banned the pan-Arab Al Jazeera network and accused six of its Gaza reporters of being militants . The Qatar-based broadcaster denies the allegations and accuses Israel of trying to silence its war coverage, which has focused heavily on civilian casualties from Israeli military operations. Separately, Israel's military said that a 35-year-old reserve soldier was killed during fighting in central Gaza early Thursday. A total of 389 soldiers have been killed in Gaza since the start of the ground operation more than a year ago. The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed across the border in an attack on nearby army bases and farming communities. They killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted around 250. About 100 hostages are still inside Gaza, at least a third believed to be dead. Israel's air and ground offensive has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry. It says more than half the fatalities have been women and children, but doesn't say how many of the dead were fighters. Israel says it has killed more than 17,000 militants, without providing evidence. The offensive has caused widespread destruction and driven around 90% of the population of 2.3 million from their homes. Hundreds of thousands are packed into squalid tent camps along the coast, with little protection from the cold, wet winter. Also Thursday, people mourned eight Palestinians killed by Israeli military operations in and around the city of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The Israeli military said that it opened fire after militants attacked soldiers, and it was aware of uninvolved civilians who were harmed in the raid. Shurafa reported from Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip. A previous version of this story was corrected to show that the name of the local news outlet is Al-Quds Today, not the Quds News Network. Follow AP’s war coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war

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Australia is among the vanguard of nations trying to clean up social media, and the proposed age limit would be among the world's strictest measures aimed at children. The proposed laws, which were presented to parliament last week, would also include robust privacy provisions that require tech platforms to delete any age-verification information collected. The government is trying to approve the law this week, before parliament breaks for the rest of the year. Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, said in its submission the ban would "fail" in its current form because there was not enough consultation with stakeholders. "More time should be taken to get this bill right," it said. TikTok raised concerns over the privacy provisions -- including that they overlapped and contradicted other legislation -- and the limited time to consult stakeholders. More from this section "Its rushed passage poses a serious risk of further unintended consequences," the company's submission said. 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He said the threat of default would stay there if the economy is stabilised through artificial means. Imran posted a message on the social networking website ‘X’ and said: “2025 is the year of real freedom, God willing, 2024 was a difficult year for Pakistan, obviously freedom is difficult to achieve!” He claimed that has received a message of deal with him and the message was that “we will give your party political space but you will be placed under house arrest and shifted to Bani Gala”. The PTI founder chairman said that he had replied to the offer that first release all the remaining political prisoners. “I will remain in jail but will not accept any deal, I will not go to house arrest or any jail in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,” he said. Imran said that he had asked his nation that they did not have to panic, as “your captain is steadfast, I will tell my overseas Pakistanis to join the campaign to boycott remittances”. He contended that right now, only ‘committee, committee’ is being played regarding PTI demands; however, if the negotiations yield positive results, the campaign to boycott remittances would be stopped, adding that it was a protest for the restoration of ‘true’ freedom and democracy. He emphasised that if there was rule of law, investment would come to the country and the economy would recover, but no attention was paid to it, capitalists were withdrawing their capital and factories were closing down. Reacting to the sentences handed down by military courts, he said that arbitrary trials were conducted in the military court regarding May 9, saying if trials were conducted in an open court, the video footage of May 9 would have had to be produced. He said that the video record of the attack on him in the Judicial Complex, Islamabad on March 18, 2023, was deliberately hidden. He insisted that a transparent trial was a fundamental constitutional right of citizens. The PTI supremo believed that conducting cases in military courts had deprived citizens of their fundamental rights and Pakistan had been severely reprimanded internationally. He suggested a review of policies, adding that Afghanistan was bombed twice. Earlier, it was claimed that forcibly sending back refugees would reduce terrorism, but that method increased hatred, which was not good for regional peace and order. Imran claimed that when Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari became the foreign minister, he did not visit Afghanistan even once, while it should have been a priority. The former prime minister said that he had also told former army chief General Bajwa that after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the situation was not such that the then ISI chief General (retd) Faiz should be replaced immediately, but he was making all the decisions for his own expansion plan instead of Pakistan, which harmed Pakistan and increased terrorism. Meanwhile, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur and the PTI negotiation committee met separately with Imran in the jail. Opposition Leader Omar Ayub, NA former Speaker Asad Qaiser, Salman Akram Raja, Senator Allama Raja Nasir Abbas and Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) chief Sahibzada Hamid Raza, who were part of the PTI negotiation committee, met the PTI founder. After the meeting, talking to the media, Hamid Raza said that they want to bring the talks to a logical conclusion by January 31. He said that there was a clear position on November 26 that “shots were fired and that 13 of our workers were martyred on that day; the workers were tortured; and those who ordered the shooting are responsible for the May 9 incident”. He revealed that the party founder said that for the survival of Pakistan, he was ready to forgive all the ill-treatment done to him and that he was ready to forgive everyone for the sake of Pakistan. Hamid Raza said that they have only two demands, as, while the other side is accusing us of the May 9 issue, a judicial commission consisting of the three most senior judges of the Supreme Court should be formed, an investigation be conducted to find out who were the people who were inciting the people on May 9. “Our demand is that the PTI founder should be released, we do not want the founder’s release as a result of any deal, as he wants the courts to decide all the cases against him,” he maintained. He said that the party founder had a special conversation with Gandapur on the issue of Kurram. Hamid Raza emphasised PTI founder Imran’s unwavering stance on resolving key issues through dialogue rather than conflict. He reiterated Imran’s condemnation of external aggression, particularly regarding Afghanistan, and stressed the importance of negotiations to address disputes. “Imran Khan believes Afghanistan-related matters must be resolved through dialogue, not violence. He remains firmly against engaging in external wars,” said Hamid Raza. Meanwhile, PTI spokesperson Shaikh Waqas Akram denied the party founder Imran Khan’s statement about economy and said in fact he had termed the related government steps as cosmetic ones and an artificial bubble. In a video message, shared with the media, he claimed that the party leader had been misquoted, who said that the government had ‘shut down’ the entire economy in order to bring down inflation and interest rate. He said the party founder believed the economy was on the verge of collapse and could fall any time, as economic stability could come by job creation and investment, whereas the rule of law and political stability were its pre-requisites, which were not there to be seen. Waqas emphasised that his party leader had fixed January 31 for the things to reach to their logical conclusion this way or that way. “To show seriousness towards talks, the government should have put on hold its ministers’ statements and news conferences and military trials,” the party information secretary contended. Regarding latest sentences given by the military courts to the persons, related to May 9, he said that their party position was the same, which was expressed when such reports surfaced a few days back. “Imran Khan had rejected civilians’ trials in military courts, as this is not a proper thing,” he pointed out. About the civil disobedience campaign, he said that no one had neither withdrawn the call, nor anyone could do so, as the call was given by the party founder and only he could withdraw it. 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(Bloomberg) — When Texas’s largest state pension funds and endowments moved to curb China investments in recent years, they still kept money with big names like Two Sigma Investments LP, Hillhouse Investment, PAG and HongShan Capital Group. Now a new order for state entities to divest all of their China investments calls into question the ability of those firms to hold on to existing cash or raise fresh capital from the Lone Star State. Governor Greg Abbott on Nov. 21 wrote to state agencies, barring them from making new investments in China and decreeing exits from any existing ones “at the first available opportunity.” The fresh order capped years of moves by some of the state’s largest public-sector investors to reduce their China holdings in the face of growing geopolitical rivalry along with the Asian nation’s regulatory uncertainty, slowing economy and slumping markets. The immediate impact on the likes of Hillhouse and Two Sigma may be modest, given that the allocations make up a small portion of the tens of billions of dollars they manage, and that, for the former, much of the money is tied up in relatively illiquid private assets. But there is a risk that other states may follow Texas as US-China tensions are expected to heat up when President-elect Donald Trump returns to power. The nearly $210 billion Teacher Retirement System of Texas, or TRS, and the $78 billion University of Texas/Texas A&M Investment Management Co. — better known as Utimco — are among investment giants in the state that remain exposed to China. The Employees Retirement System of Texas, whose trust fund hit $40 billion, also disclosed allocations to asset managers with China exposure, such as Asia-based alternative assets investor PAG. TRS received the governor’s letter and is reviewing its China investments, a spokesman said in an email, adding its exposure to China is estimated at less than 1% of its assets. A new TRS investment policy statement adopted on Sept. 23 excluded Hong Kong and China from benchmarks used for public equity investments. Its investment committee earlier this year discussed “zero percent allocation” to China, “due to the political environment shifting.” The organization effectively halved the target allocation to Chinese stocks in September 2022, when it decided to reduce the country’s outsized weight in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index by switching to an equal mix of the original benchmark and a version without China. An investment report available to Bloomberg News showed TRS had a touch under $211 million parked in the Two Sigma China Core Equity Fund at the end of June. It had another $282 million invested with Green Court Capital Management Ltd. Those two investments are absent from the latest report for the end of September. Hillhouse, which managed nearly $500 million of public markets investments for the pension fund at the end of 2020, dropped off TRS’s list of external managers in the latest annual report for the year ended Aug. 31. TRS also had investments in funds of Hony Capital and Orchid Asia Group, two China-focused private equity firms. Changes in the market value of holdings would have reflected the amount of committed capital called down by the funds for investments, cash distributions and market value changes in their underlying investments. Hillhouse, GGV Capital, Two Sigma and HongShan Capital Group, the renamed former China arm of Sequoia Capital, also feature prominently among managers with significant China investments that Utimco parceled out money to. Representatives for EQT, Green Court, Hillhouse, PAG, Two Sigma and Utimco declined to comment. Employees Retirement System of Texas and TPG couldn’t immediately comment. Coreview, HongShan, Hony Capital and Orchid Asia didn’t immediately respond to emailed requests for comment. Neither did Granite Asia, the entity that now runs GGV’s Asia operations. Most of the funds have broader geographical coverage, and it’s not clear how much of the amounts are actually invested in China. PAG funds that Texas investors have allocated money to have minimal exposure to China, said a person with knowledge of the matter. Geopolitical tensions have been mounting. President Joe Biden in August 2023 issued a long-anticipated executive order imposing screening for US investments in Chinese companies in some sectors. In October 2023, a US congressional committee sent Sequoia a letter asking for information about its China investment, calling out several as “problematic” for security or human-rights reasons. Earlier that year, the Select Committee sent GGV Capital, GSR Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures and Walden International similar letters asking about various investments in China and Chinese investors in their funds. Abbott joined his counterparts in South Dakota, Iowa and Mississippi in writing to Vanguard Group in May 2023, urging the investment firm to create an emerging markets fund that excludes China. The Republican governor signed an executive order last month banning business travel by state employees to countries designated as “foreign adversaries,” including China. It required advance notification of planned personal trips to such destinations and post-trip debriefings. That would curb the ability of Texas public sector investors from conducting on-site meetings with managers in mainland China and Hong Kong. Abbott’s Nov. 21 order cited threats to the financial security of the state from the Chinese Communist Party and called for all investments of state money in China to be “evaluated and immediately addressed.” The order didn’t specify whether and how he expected private markets investments — such as private equity, venture capital and real estate — to be liquidated. A press officer wasn’t able to provide additional information. Even public market investments may take more than a year to exit, depending on lockup and redemption terms. The state investors may have money with other global or emerging markets or Asia regional funds that make part of their investments in China. It’s not clear how that will be treated. While public market funds allow redemptions, investors usually can only fully exit private equity and venture capital investments at the end of the funds’ lives or by transferring their stakes in the secondary market. Hillhouse has been expanding investments outside China. Founded in 2005 by Yale University endowment alumnus Zhang Lei with a mandate to trade public equities globally, Hillhouse has grown assets to more than $100 billion, diversifying into venture capital, private equity and, in recent years, real assets and private credit. Its investments away from China have included Asia warehouse operator GLP Pte, Royal Philips NV’s domestic-appliance unit and Swiss athletic shoe brand On. It has started a tender offer for Japanese real estate company Samty Holdings Ltd. Led by Neil Shen, HongShan is opening a London office to help scout for deals in Europe, as it ramps up efforts outside China. The company already has nearly 10 portfolio investments in Europe, including Monzo Bank Ltd., a London-based digital bank; new energy firm GEO; designer brand Ami Paris, and healthcare business Barinthus Biotherapeutics Plc. Its overseas investments are mostly in Asia, including Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia. 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