Bloomberg JBS SA, the world’s largest meat supplier, will discontinue operations at its US plant-based unit Planterra and focus on growing markets for alternative proteins in Brazil and Europe. The shutdown comes amid softening consumer demand for plant-based proteins. Maple Leaf Foods Inc. recently decided to reduce the size of its plant-based segment after a review found demand will ...

  Bloomberg A mass shooting that began with a daycare center in northeastern Thailand left 38 people dead, the majority of them children, according to officials. A 34-year-old former cop used an automatic weapon to fire at the center located in Nong Bua Lamphu province near Thailand’s border with Laos on Thursday afternoon, killing 24 children, Jackrapat Wijitwaitaya, a local ...

  Bloomberg North Korea fired two suspected short-range ballistic missiles toward waters where a US aircraft carrier had been deployed, ratcheting up tensions in the region. The missile launches off North Korea’s east coast Thursday added to one of its biggest barrage of tests under leader Kim Jong Un, including its first launch of a rocket over Japan in five ...