The Tai-Ex opened down 156-points this morning from yesterday's close, at

23,574 on turnover of $5.4-billion N-T.

Taiwanese nationals with German citizenship have cast their ballots in

Germany's federal election Sunday for the first time.

This follows a change in the country's Nationality Law last year that allows

Germans with dual citizenship to vote.

More than 200,000 citizenship applications were received by the government

since the passage (通過) of the new law in June, including from a number of

Taiwanese people.

That's about two to three times higher than in previous years.

The Central Weather Administration says frost formations have been spotted on

parts of Yushan, due to early morning low temperatures.

The CWA says lows fell to "minus 5.2 degrees Celsius" on Taiwan's highest

peak at around 5am today, and rime frost formed on surfaces on the mountain.

Forecasters say the opaque (不透明的), granular deposits of ice crystals

occur in foggy or cloudy conditions when the water droplets in the air freeze

on cold surfaces.

Temperatures on Yushan returned to 2.8 degrees at around 8am.

(NS)

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a contentious (有爭議的) U.S.

proposal that would have seen $500 billion worth of profits from Ukrainian

rare minerals given to the United States as compensation for its wartime

assistance to Kyiv has been taken off the table.

Zelenskyy told a forum in Kyiv on Sunday that he was open to brokering a deal

that would let the U.S. profit from his country’s minerals, but that the

$500 billion sum initially proposed had been removed from the discussions.

The Ukrainian leader said considering aid as a debt to be repaid would be a

“Pandora's box” that would set a precedent requiring Kyiv to reimburse all

its backers.

U.S. officials have expressed confidence that a deal could be reached this

week.

An American Airlines flight from New York to New Delhi lands safely in Rome

after security concerns.

Here's Julie Walker.

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito, marking his 65th birthday, stressed the importance

to keep telling the tragedy of the World War II to younger generations.

At the palace, Naruhito, accompanied by his wife, Empress Masako and their

daughter Princess Aiko, waved from the palace balcony to thank for the

cheering well-wishers.

The emporer pledging to contribute (貢獻，出力) to the effort to promote

understanding of the history and determination for peace as the world

observes the 80th anniversary of the war’s end.

Later Sunday, he was to celebrate his birthday at a palace banquet.

This year, Naruhito and Masako are expected to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki

to pay tribute to (表示敬意的舉動) those killed by the U.S. atomic bombings

and Okinawa, the site of one of the harshest battles in the war.

That was the I.C.R.T. EZ News, I'm _____.

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