Alliance Sets Plan To Finance Bangladesh Factory Upgrades

mdash; South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared an “emergency martial law,” Tuesday accusing the country’s opposition of controlling the parliament, sympathizing with North Korea and paralyzing the government with anti-state activities. Yoon made the announcement in a televised briefing Tuesday, vowing to “eradicate pro-North Korean forces and protect the constitutional democratic order.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] It wasn’t immediately clear how Yoon’s step would affect the country’s governance and democracy.

A request by Black Hills Energy to raise its residential electric rates in Colorado by nearly 15% could prove to be a test case of the state’s efforts to focus on affordability in the face of growing complaints about utility bills. The South Dakota-based company is seeking its first rate increase in eight years.

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NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump will attend the reopening celebration for Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris this weekend, his first foreign trip since the election. The cathedral is set to reopen Saturday after more than five years of reconstruction following a devastating fire in 2019 that engulfed and nearly destroyed the soaring Paris landmark.

JERUSALEM — Israel unleashed its largest wave of airstrikes across Lebanon since agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah last week, killing at least 11 people on Monday after the Lebanese militant group fired a volley of projectiles as a warning over what it said were Israeli truce violations. The projectiles were apparently the first time that Hezbollah took aim at Israeli forces after the 60-day ceasefire went into effect last Wednesday.