Asian shares, oil prices mostly higher after Fed rate hike
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Thursday after the Federal Reserve ratcheted up its…
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Xi, Biden to speak as possible Pelosi Taiwan visit looms
BEIJING (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden is planning to speak with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for the first time in four months, with a wide…
Continue ReadingChina rejects report it tried to obtain Federal Reserve data
BEIJING (AP) — China’s government has rejected as a “political lie” a report by The Wall Street Journal that Beijing tried to recruit…
Continue ReadingJapanese city alarmed by biting, clawing, attacking monkeys
By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — People in a southwestern Japanese city have come under attack from monkeys that are trying to snatch…
Continue ReadingRussia cuts gas through Nord Stream 1 to 20% of capacity
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Russia’s Gazprom has halved the amount of gas flowing through a major pipeline from Russia…
Continue ReadingElizabeth Strout, Leila Mottley up for Booker fiction prize
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Best-selling American writers Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth Strout and Leila Mottley are among 13…
Continue ReadingRisks, mined waters slow rush to extract grains from Ukraine
By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press Shipping companies are not rushing to export millions of tons of trapped grain out of Ukraine, despite a breakthrough…
Continue ReadingNew UK rail strike brings train services to a crawl
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s railway network ground to a crawl on Wednesday after 40,000 staff walked off the job in…
Continue ReadingThousands of North Carolina felons can now register and vote
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Tens of thousands of people in North Carolina serving punishments for felony convictions but who aren’t behind bars can now…
Continue ReadingUS rocket system enables Ukraine to pummel key supply bridge
By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian troops used American-supplied precision rocket launchers to knock out a vital bridge…
Continue ReadingCameroon becomes a go-to country for foreign fishing vessels
by RICHA SYAL and GRACE EKPU Associated Press DOUALA, Cameroon (AP) — The Trondheim is a familiar sight off the coast of West Africa — a…
Continue ReadingCredit Suisse CEO resigns as bank posts 2Q loss
GENEVA (AP) — Credit Suisse says CEO Thomas Gottstein is resigning after 2-1/2 years in the job. It came as he announced “disappointing”…
Continue ReadingProtesting Dutch farmers dump manure, garbage on roads
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch farmers are protesting government plans to reduce nitrogen emissions. The…
Continue ReadingAP Exclusive: Philippines scraps Russian chopper deal
By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine government has scrapped a deal to purchase 16 Russian military transport…
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Scorching heat wave in US Northwest forecast to last longer
By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The scorching heat spell in the Pacific Northwest is now expected to last…
Continue ReadingCameroon becomes a go-to country for foreign fishing vessels
By RICHA SYAL and GRACE EKPU Associated Press DOUALA, Cameroon (AP) — Off the coast of West Africa, the Trondheim is a familiar sight: a soccer…
Continue ReadingOver 1,000 Lufthansa flights canceled as staff strikes
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — More than 1,000 Lufthansa flights were canceled Wednesday because of a one-day strike by the…
Continue ReadingSelf-described R. Kelly manager pleads guilty to stalking
NEW YORK (AP) — A self-described manager and adviser to singer R. Kelly has pleaded guilty to an interstate stalking charge. Donnell Russell…
Continue ReadingAmnesty: Taliban crackdown on rights is ‘suffocating’ women
By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The lives of Afghan women and girls are being destroyed by a “suffocating” crackdown by the…
Continue ReadingJapan, Indonesia to boost naval security ties as China rises
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The leaders of Japan and Indonesia have agreed to bolster ties in maritime security and cooperation…
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