The Tai-Ex opened up nearly 90-points this morning from yesterday's close, at

34,951 on turnover of $10-billion NT.

Market optimism over prospects for a Middle East ceasefire lifted U.S.

stocks, carrying the momentum into Taiwan's market today.

Electronics and semiconductor indices both rose over 1-percent%, while

financial stocks bucked the trend, slipping around 0.4-percent.

Among heavyweight stocks, TSMC opened with a gain of 1.28-percent.

And memory chip duo Winbond Electronics and Nanya Technology both climbed

more than 3-percent.

(NS)

A tropical storm southeast of Guam is expected to strengthen into a typhoon

— but the Central Weather Administration says it poses (構成) no threat to

the island.

The CWA says "Sinlaku" is the fourth tropical storm of the season, and is

projected to continue heading north before becoming a typhoon.

Forecasters say it will remain far from Taiwan and have no direct impact.

Closer to home, temperatures are forecast to hit 30 degrees Celsius across

Taiwan today, and foehn winds in Taitung could push temperatures above 36

degrees.

The hot weather continues through Tuesday, when an arriving weather front

will cool northern and central Taiwan.

Conditions will otherwise remain mostly sunny and stable through Monday,

with afternoon showers possible in mountainous areas.

Kuwait has accused Iran and its proxies of launching drone attacks targeting

it on Thursday despite the two-week ceasefire in the Iran war.

Saudi Arabia also says recent attacks damaged a key pipeline in the kingdom.

The statement from Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry about attacks on "vital Kuwaiti

facilities" put new pressure on the ceasefire ahead of planned talks Saturday

between the United States and Iran in Islamabad.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s state-run Saudi Press Agency, quoting an anonymous

official, acknowledged a recent attack in the war that damaged its crucial

(至關重要的) East-West pipeline.

That pipeline carries oil out to the Red Sea and avoids the Strait of Hormuz,

which Iran maintains a chokehold (實體控制) on despite the pause in the

fighting.

The crew of Artemis II is speeding towards home after their historic (歷史性)

trip around the moon.

AP correspondent Jennifer King reports.

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature

previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus is actually a nautilus

(鸚鵡螺) relative.

University of Reading zoology lecturer Thomas Clements led the research,

which found that the fossil, originally identified in 2000, had too many

teeth to be an octopus.

The creature, about the size of a human hand, was found in Illinois and had

puzzled scientists for years, because it is much older than the next-earliest

known octopus.

The findings, published this week, mean Guinness World Records will no longer

list the specimen (樣本) it as the earliest known octopus.

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

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