Biden hosts climate meeting amid high gas price pressure
By SETH BORENSTEIN and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Equating the oil and gas industry to Big Tobacco, United Nations…
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T-shirts? Ice cream? Retailers cash in on Juneteenth
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Retailers and marketers have been quick to commemorate Juneteenth with an avalanche of…
Continue ReadingForeigners pay more for gas in Hungary. It risks an EU fight
By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary has placed price caps on fuel and some food and imposed special taxes on…
Continue ReadingPhilippine militants accused of beheading tourists surrender
By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine security officials say two long-wanted Abu Sayyaf militant commanders accused…
Continue ReadingLeaders meet in Madrid to mark world day to fight drought
By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Politicians and experts are meeting in Madrid to mark World Day to Combat Desertification and…
Continue ReadingUK govt orders Julian Assange’s extradition; appeal planned
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government on Friday ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the…
Continue ReadingAustralian minister visits Solomons to counter China
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s new foreign minister has visited the Solomon Islands to assure the South…
Continue ReadingResidents say China used health tracker for crowd control
By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Angry bank customers who traveled to a city in central China to retrieve their savings from…
Continue ReadingEXPLAINER: Why is China denying Hong Kong was a UK colony?
By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Hong Kong is preparing to introduce new middle school textbooks that will deny the Chinese…
Continue ReadingUkraine gets possible path to EU, aid pledges from Britain
By DAVID KEYTON, JOHN LEICESTER and EFREM LUKATSKY Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm recommended putting…
Continue ReadingJapan top court: Govt not responsible for Fukushima disaster
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s top court has ruled that the government was not liable for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear…
Continue ReadingUK’s Gatwick cuts summer flights as airports struggle
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Gatwick Airport has slashed its number of daily flights over the summer because of staff shortages. It comes as the…
Continue ReadingEXPLAINER: The scandal engulfing South Africa’s president
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa could face criminal charges and is already…
Continue ReadingMalaysia lawyers protest probe of judge who convicted ex-PM
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Hundreds of Malaysian lawyers have staged a protest to condemn the anti-graft agency’s probe of a senior judge who…
Continue Reading1 dead in protests over India’s military recruitment policy
By OMER FAROOQ and ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — At least one person has been killed as angry young people in parts of India…
Continue ReadingEurope wilts under early heat wave from Med to North Sea
By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A blanket of hot air stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea is bringing much of Western…
Continue ReadingThailand drops registration for visitors, outdoor mask rule
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand is lifting a pre-arrival registration requirement for foreign visitors that was seen as onerous and a drag on the recovery…
Continue ReadingJapan’s Zipair changes logo to nix perception of Russia link
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese low-cost carrier Zipair is changing the design on its tail from the letter “Z,” which resembles the symbol on Russian…
Continue ReadingAl Jazeera releases image of bullet it says killed reporter
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Al Jazeera news network has published an image of the bullet that it says killed its veteran reporter Shireen Abu Akleh. She…
Continue ReadingAs Po dries up, Italy’s food and energy supplies are at risk
By PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press BORETTO, Italy (AP) — Water is so low in large stretches of Italy’s largest river that local residents…
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