Hong Kong lifts flight ban citing ‘little effect’ on COVID
By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong is shelving a COVID-19 measure that has resulted in dozens of canceled flights in recent…
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Bulls run in Pamplona for 1st time since 2019; no one gored
By IRENE YAGÜE and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — The first bull run in three years took place Thursday at the San Fermín…
Continue ReadingBeijing mandates COVID vaccines to enter some public spaces
By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The Chinese capital has issued a mandate requiring people to show proof of COVID-19…
Continue ReadingWNBA’s Griner pleads guilty at her drug trial in Russia
By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — American basketball star Brittney Griner pleaded guilty Thursday to drug possession charges on the…
Continue ReadingA hajj closer to normal: 1 million Muslims begin pilgrimage
By AMR NABIL and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — It is a scene that stirs hope — and relief — for Muslims around the…
Continue ReadingUkrainians cling to life at front line: ‘We are patriots’
By CARA ANNA and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Viktor Lazar shares his war-side balcony with a pair of opera glasses…
Continue ReadingAustralia drops charge against lawyer over spying claim
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s new government has dropped the 4-year-old prosecution of a lawyer over his…
Continue ReadingOne scandal too many: British PM Boris Johnson resigns
By DANICA KIRKA, JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation Thursday after…
Continue ReadingIran’s outdoor painters seek to capture, preserve old Tehran
By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Tehran residents accustomed to seething at slow-moving traffic, sweltering in summer heat and…
Continue ReadingAsian markets follow Wall St higher as recession fears ease
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher Friday after two Federal Reserve officials said…
Continue ReadingInflation pushed 71M people into poverty since Ukraine war
By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as…
Continue ReadingPandemic-delayed World Games open in Birmingham a year late
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A global athletic competition is starting in Birmingham, Alabama, after a yearlong delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Continue ReadingPrison sought for Arizona official in ballot harvesting case
YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — Prosecutors are seeking a one-year prison sentence for a school board member in southern Arizona for illegally collecting four…
Continue ReadingSingapore hangs 2 drug traffickers despite opposition
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Two drug traffickers have been hanged in Singapore, bringing the number of executions this year in the city-state to…
Continue Reading‘Hopeless’: Japan’s weak opposition no match for ruling LDP
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — More than a dozen opposition parties are running in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, but they…
Continue ReadingS Korean group floats balloons toward North amid animosities
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korea activist says he launched more huge balloons carrying COVID-19 relief…
Continue ReadingYellowstone floods reveal forecasting flaws in warming world
By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Yellowstone National Park area’s weather forecast the…
Continue ReadingHaiti’s struggle worsened in year since slaying of president
By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A year has passed since President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated at…
Continue ReadingFlood threat moves north as Sydney area emergency eases
SYDNEY (AP) — Floodwaters were receding in Sydney and its surrounding area Thursday as heavy rain threatened to inundate towns north of…
Continue ReadingUN delays vote on aid to Syria’s northwest from Turkey
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has delayed an expected vote on extending humanitarian aid…
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