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BEIJING (AP) — U.S. government bans on Chinese-owned video sharing app TikTok reveal Washington’s own insecurities and are an abuse of state power, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Tuesday. The U.S. government “has been overstretching the concept of national security and abusing state power to suppress other countries’ companies,” Mao Ning said at a

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s parliament has urged lawmakers and employees with the 179-member assembly against having TikTok on phones as a cybersecurity measure. Denmark’s parliamentary speaker said Tuesday that “there is a risk of espionage.” TikTok faces intensifying scrutiny from Europe and the U.S. over security and data privacy amid worries that the hugely

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By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The fate of President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan is up in the air after Supreme Court justices questioned whether his administration has the authority to broadly cancel federal student loans. At stake is debt forgiveness for up to 43 million Americans. Nearly half could

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s lower house of parliament has approved a 114 trillion yen ($836 billion) budget for the next fiscal year. It includes a record 6.8 trillion yen ($50 billion) in defense spending, part of a military buildup as China’s influence in the region grows. The 2023 defense budget,

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has visited Belfast to sell his landmark agreement with the European Union to its toughest audience. That is unionist politicians who fear post-Brexit trade rules are weakening Northern Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom. The U.K. and the EU struck a deal

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Wednesday as investors watched for upcoming earnings reports and other indicators on how inflationary pressures might be denting global growth. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 was virtually unchanged in morning trading, inching up less than 0.1% to 27,446.91. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 edged up

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain is building on its reputation in renewable energy to position itself as Europe’s future leader in green hydrogen. But industry players and experts express caution over ramping up an industry that would be wholly reliant on massive increases in the availability of zero-carbon electricity. Spain’s Minister

By KEVIN FREKING and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A special House committee dedicated to countering China began its work Tuesday with a prime-time hearing in which the panel’s chairman called on lawmakers to act with urgency and framed the competition between the U.S. and China as “an existential struggle over what life

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative justices holding the Supreme Court’s majority seem ready to sink President Joe Biden’s plan to wipe away or reduce student loans held by millions of Americans. In arguments lasting more than three hours Tuesday, Chief Justice John Roberts led his conservative colleagues in

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong will lift its mask mandate on Wednesday, ending the city’s last major restriction imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The city’s leader, John Lee, says masks will no longer be required both outdoors and indoors, including on public transit. But some high-risk areas such as

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Monday that it is creating a new task force to crack down on an explosion of the illegal exploitation of migrant children for labor in the U.S. Hundreds of companies that employed nearly 4,000 children last year were found in violation of federal