For Pakistan flood victims, waters hit swiftly and brutally
By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press CHARSADDA, Pakistan (AP) — Rubina Bibi was cooking food for her family in her mudbrick home in her village in…
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Chinese manufacturing weak, adding to economic pressure
BEIJING (AP) — A survey shows Chinese manufacturing contracted in August amid weak export and consumer demand. That adds to downward pressure on…
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By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — In the Latvian capital of Riga, an obelisk that soared high above a park to commemorate the…
Continue ReadingJapan, seeking arms buildup, makes opaque budget request
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Defense Ministry has made a budget request for next year without specifying the costs of…
Continue ReadingAsian shares track Wall Street slide on expected rate raises
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Thursday, tracking the broad slide on Wall Street, as investors…
Continue ReadingUN expert: US progress on LGBT rights but equality lacking
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The independent U.N. expert on sexual orientation and gender identity says enormous…
Continue ReadingZombie cells central to the quest for active, vital old age
By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer In an unfinished part of his basement, 95-year-old Richard Soller zips around a makeshift track encircling boxes…
Continue ReadingG20 environment ministers in Bali spur global climate action
By FADLAN SYAM and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — Environment officials from the Group of 20 leading rich and…
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By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Five of the 19 students in teacher Chelsea Grant’s third grade classroom are reading…
Continue ReadingSolomon Islands asks navies not to send ships pending review
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Solomon Islands has asked countries to not send naval vessels to the South Pacific…
Continue ReadingEquity is goal, not mandate, in California electric car rule
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Discounted prices, car-share programs and at least one million more public charging…
Continue ReadingU.N. monitors head to troubled Ukraine nuclear plant
By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A team of international nuclear inspectors was heading Wednesday to the Zaporizhzhia…
Continue ReadingSurvey finds young people follow news, but without much joy
By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Young people are following the news but aren’t too happy with what they’re seeing.…
Continue ReadingUS life expectancy plunged again in 2021, down nearly a year
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling by nearly a year…
Continue ReadingEurope plan for floating gas terminals raises climate fears
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Energy Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As winter nears, European nations, desperate to replace the natural gas they once bought from…
Continue ReadingMichigan election board rejects abortion rights initiative
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and SARA BURNETT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan elections board on Wednesday rejected an abortion rights…
Continue ReadingGorbachev mourned as rare world leader but some still bitter
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and PATRICK QUINN Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The passing of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union and…
Continue ReadingJapan PM apologizes for party’s church links, will cut ties
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says his ruling party will cut ties with the Unification…
Continue ReadingNevada judge almost unseals Ronaldo rape case documents
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas police report compiled a decade after a woman first made a 2009 rape complaint against…
Continue ReadingMikhail Gorbachev, who steered Soviet breakup, dead at 91
By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at 91. He waged a losing battle to…
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