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Sandro Tonali scored a stoppage-time winner as Italy won a chaotic nine-goal thriller against Israel 5-4 and dodged another big setback in its bid to qualify for the 2026 World Cup on Monday.A 3-0 loss to Norway in June left Italy’s qualification campaign in trouble. More difficulties were in store when Israel twice took the lead in a game held in neutral Hungary.Moise Kean found space among the Israeli defense to score each side of halftime, leveling the score on both occasions. Matteo Politano finally gave Italy the lead in the 59th minute off a backheeled flick assist from Mateo…

Major Asean economies grappling with post-tariff domestic strife: Thailand downgrades; growth star Philippines dims; Indonesia treads water; Vietnam, Singapore roar on, Malaysia steadies[SINGAPORE] South-east Asia emerged from the tariff-driven turbulence in the first half-year with decent prints, yet some of its largest markets have either downgraded their forecasts or are expected to miss official full-year growth targets. As the world enters the home stretch of 2025 and an era that has been branded the slowest decade for global growth, The Business Times re-examines the standings of South-east Asia’s six largest markets, and takes a look at whether key indicators are…

External USB/Thunderbolt SSDs and/or hard drives (aka direct-attached storage, or DAS) are a super-convenient way to add storage capacity to your system as well as back it up. External drives are also extremely handy for transporting data between locations and devices in what used to be known as sneaker-net. In a cloud-based, networked world, local storage still offers distinct performance advantages. Transferring 4TB of data across the usual home network is generally far slower than offloading it to a 20Gbps/40Gbps SSD, then walking it to its destination. Similarly, restoring a backup from local storage is far, far faster than pulling…

Kylian Mbappe no longer stands alone at the top of EA FC’s men’s player ratings, and Cristiano Ronaldo has fallen outside of the Top 50.EA Sports revealed the 52 highest-rated players in EA Sports FC 26 and Mohamed Salah joined Mbappe as the only other men’s player in the game with a 91 overall rating, which is the highest rating.Salah, 33, is coming off of a remarkable campaign with Liverpool, in which he recorded 34 goals and 23 assists en route to his second Premier League title with the Reds. (Photo by Carl Recine/Getty Images) Mbappe maintained his 91 overall…

This week on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” in the wake of a forthcoming GOP report on Afghanistan, House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul discusses its findings with Margaret Brennan. Plus, Brennan speaks with former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley.

The president’s address to Parliament presented a sombre assessment of external threats, but his core message was a return to the nation’s foundational strengths[SINGAPORE] The relative political lull after the 2025 General Election, through which the ruling People’s Action Party secured a firm mandate, has now made way for the urgency of action in a more capricious world. The opening of the 15th Parliament and the President’s Address last Friday (Sep 5) set out the government’s necessarily ambitious priorities, policies and programmes for the coming five years. With Singapore at a “critical juncture” and the old playbook no longer sufficient, significant…

​ SINGAPORE, Sept. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — SixSense, the Singapore-headquartered pioneer in AI-powered Automated Defect Classification (AI-ADC), today announced that it has been selected by Raytek, one of Taiwan’s leading advanced packaging companies, to deploy its ready-to-implement AI platform. This collaboration marks another important step in bringing next-generation smart manufacturing to the heart of the global semiconductor industry. “SixSense outperformed other candidates and clearly demonstrated the strength of its AI solution. By partnering with SixSense, Raytek is accelerating our vision of smart manufacturing and ensuring we stay ahead in a highly competitive market,” said Johnson Tai, President of Raytek. SixSense’s no-code, end-to-end AI platform enables fabs…

Alphabet’s Google Meet was down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Monday, according to tracking website Downdetector.com.The video-communication service was down for more than 15,000 users as of 1.36 p.m. ET, according to the website, which tracks outages by collating status reports from multiple sources.Google did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

The rupiah has already weakened more than 1% against the US dollar this year, the worst-performing currency in Asia after the Indian rupee[MELBOURNE] Indonesian markets are set for a fresh bout of volatility on Tuesday (Sep 9) that may prompt central bank intervention after Sri Mulyani Indrawati was removed as the nation’s finance minister. The rupiah is poised to weaken when onshore trading resumes after forwards on the currency slid more than 1 per cent against the US dollar in overnight trading to the weakest since May. The nation’s dollar bonds trended lower, while two US-listed exchange-traded funds tracking Indonesian…

​ HONG KONG and BAKU, Azerbaijan, Sept. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Solomon AI Limited, a leading innovator in advanced artificial intelligence, and VR Solutions LLC, a prominent technology provider in Azerbaijan, today announced a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating the adoption of cutting-edge Agentic AI solutions across Central Asia. This collaboration aligns with the broader vision of the Belt Road Initiative (BRI), fostering technological advancement and economic growth in the region. The partnership, effective September 1, 2025, marks a significant milestone in Solomon AI’s global expansion and VR Solutions LLC’s commitment to bringing transformative technological solutions to its markets. This strategic…