The Tai-Ex opened up 10-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 17,305

on turnover of $1.3-billion N-T.

The market lost ground on Thursday, after Nvidia fell even after reporting

blowout profits on Wall Street overnight.

The Central Weather Administration says Taiwan's average temperature is

rising higher than the global average.

According to the administration, Taiwan's average temperature rose

0.29-degrees in each of the three 10-year periods from the beginning of the

90s until 2020.

And that's higher than the global average increase of 0.21-degrees.

Data from 13 of the weather administration's low-elevation weather

observation stations shows that from 1898 to 2020, Taiwan's temperature rose

by an average of 0.11-degrees per decade, significantly lower than the

0.29-degrees per decade between 1991 and 2020.

Meanwhile, the weather administration says although data shows there has been

no significant change in overall annual precipitation over the same period,

the intensity of extreme rain has increased.

Russia is deepening bilateral and economic ties with Mali as Western

influence in the West African nation declines.

Mali has signed a deal with Russia to build a gold refinery (精煉廠) in the

capital Bamako to improve the nation's economy.

Correspondent, Nabil Ahmed Rufai reports.

The World Health Organization says it has made an official request to China

for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses

and clusters of pneumonia in children.

On Thursday, the U.N. health agency said Chinese officials told them they did

not detect any “unusual or novel (新的)” diseases.

The emergence of new new flu strains or other viruses capable of triggering

pandemics, typically starts with undiagnosed clusters of respiratory illness.

Both SARS and COVID-19 were reported as unusual types of pneumonia.

Outside scientists said the situation warranted close monitoring, but were

not convinced that the recent spike in respiratory illnesses in China

signaled the start of a new global outbreak.

A crane operator has played down tributes paid to him after he lifted a man

to safety from a burning high-rise building in England.

Video from the scene in the town of Reading in southern England showed a man

being rescued by a crane cage from the roof of a building under construction

as thick plumes of dark smoke and flames billowed around him.

The man was lifted in the air and then lowered to the ground.

A 65-year-old crane operator Glen Edwards described the situation as a

“close call” (千鈞一髮) because of windy conditions.

Officials said that more than 50 firefighters arrived at the scene to tackle

the blaze and another man was also lifted from the building by crane.

The fire was extinguished later Thursday.

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