China vows ‘forceful’ measures after US-Taiwan meeting
By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China vowed reprisals against Taiwan after a meeting between the United States House speaker…
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Asian stocks follow Wall Street up ahead of US jobs update
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher on Friday ahead of a U.S. job market update that…
Continue ReadingCoal capacity climbs worldwide despite promises to slash it
By SIBI ARASU Associated Press The capacity to burn coal for power went up in 2022 despite global promises to phase down the fuel that’s the…
Continue ReadingIsrael stages rare strikes in Lebanon, also hits Gaza Strip
By JOSEF FEDERMAN and FARES AKRAM Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel launched rare strikes in southern Lebanon early Friday and pressed on…
Continue ReadingWhy are French workers angry about raising retirement age?
By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to fill the streets of France Thursday for the 11th…
Continue ReadingThousands still missing from 20 years of Iraq’s turmoil
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Nawal Sweidan quietly folded her son’s clothes and straightened the bedsheets in his room as…
Continue ReadingSaudi, Iran restore ties, say they seek Mideast stability
By MALAK HARB Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Long-time Mideast rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia took another significant step…
Continue ReadingChinese President Xi calls for Ukraine peace talks
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for peace talks over Ukraine after French President Emmanuel Macron appealed to him to “bring…
Continue ReadingSapporo election could restart bid for 2030 Winter Olympics
By STEPHEN WADE and YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Sapporo’s bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics has been slowed by fallout from the…
Continue ReadingIdaho governor signs ‘abortion trafficking’ bill into law
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a bill into law Wednesday that makes it illegal for an adult to help a minor get an abortion…
Continue ReadingLIV and let live: Masters still about who wins green jacket
By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Masters Chairman Fred Ridley sat among 33 champions in green jackets at golf’s most…
Continue ReadingDirty money: Ex-lawmaker gets 2 years for cesspool bribes
By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A former Hawaii lawmaker was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison in a federal corruption…
Continue ReadingGOP’s DeSantis visits Whitmer’s Michigan, the ‘anti-Florida’
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Ahead of a highly anticipated presidential announcement, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis…
Continue ReadingPakistan: Military kills 8 militants near Afghanistan border
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military says security forces have killed eight insurgents in an overnight operation at a militant hideout near the…
Continue ReadingGrief wracks parents after Brazilian axe attack kills 4 kids
By MAURICIO SAVARESE and LAÍS MARTINS Associated Press BLUMENAU, Brazil (AP) — They sent their seven-year-old to day care Wednesday and plunged…
Continue ReadingMassachusetts weighs letting judges order mental health care
By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — When Ashoke and Vinita Rampuria’s son returned home after taking a year off from college, to…
Continue ReadingFuture of Borges estate in limbo as widow doesn’t leave will
By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The rights to the works of the late Jorge Luis Borges, considered Argentina’s…
Continue ReadingAre robot waiters the future? Some restaurants think so
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — You may have already seen them in restaurants: waist-high machines that can…
Continue ReadingSenegal struggles with loss of fish central to diet, culture
By GRACE EKPU and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — In Senegal, the national dish of thieboudienne is entwined in the…
Continue ReadingUS man found dead on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The body of a U.S. man who had gone missing Feb. 11 has been found in a clandestine burial pit on Mexico’s Baja California…
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