Beijing, Shanghai ease COVID restrictions as outbreaks fade
BEIJING (AP) — Shoppers returned to the malls of Beijing on Sunday as the Chinese capital relaxed pandemic restrictions after declaring a small but…
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UK to hold days-long bash to celebrate queen’s 70-year reign
By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain is getting ready for a party featuring mounted troops, solemn prayers — and a pack of…
Continue ReadingRescuers close to plane that crashed in Nepal with 22 aboard
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Authorities in Nepal say rescuers have narrowed a possible location of a passenger…
Continue ReadingSevere water shortages strain wheat harvest in Iraq
By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Salah Chelab crushed a husk of wheat plucked from his sprawling farmland south of Baghdad and…
Continue Reading‘Now I am a beggar’: Fleeing the Russian advance in Ukraine
By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — As Russian forces press their offensive to take the eastern Ukrainian cities of…
Continue ReadingChinatowns more vibrant after pandemic, anti-Asian violence
By TERRY TANG Associated Press The last week of April was a whirlwind for San Francisco’s Chinatown. The storied neighborhood debuted the…
Continue ReadingUvalde tells Biden to ‘do something’; he pledges ‘we will’
By ZEKE MILLER and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — President Joe Biden grieved with the shattered community of Uvalde on…
Continue ReadingUkraine, Russia battle in the east as Zelenskyy visits front
By ELENA BECATOROS and RICARDO MAZALAN Associated Press POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russian and Ukrainian troops traded blows in fierce close-quarter…
Continue ReadingColombia presidential race to runoff; leftist vs businessman
By ASTRID SUAREZ and REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — In a blow to Colombia’s political class, a leftist former rebel…
Continue ReadingFirst TS forms off Mexico’s coast, to become hurricane
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A strengthening Agatha, the first tropical storm of the 2022 hurricane season in the Pacific, was forecast to become a hurricane…
Continue ReadingN. Korea moves to soften curbs amid doubts over COVID counts
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and other top officials have discussed revising…
Continue Reading25 missing after cargo boat sinks in Indonesia
Associated Press MAKASSAR, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers in Indonesia are searching for 25 people who are missing after a cargo boat sank in the…
Continue ReadingCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom tests positive for COVID-19
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The office of California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday. The 54-year-old governor has…
Continue ReadingUS state legislators praise abortion access in Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A group of U.S. state legislators from Texas, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and North Carolina have toured Mexico and say they…
Continue ReadingUvalde a mix of pride and anger as it grieves school attack
By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Days after a local man burst into an elementary school and killed 19 children and two…
Continue ReadingTIMELINE: Texas elementary school shooting, minute by minute
By JAKE BLEIBERG and SEAN MURPHY In the hours and days since the fatal shooting of 19 children and their two teachers at an elementary school in…
Continue ReadingIndy 500 waves green flag on sustainability with lofty goals
By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Parked a few feet from the iconic pagoda at Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a reimagined E-Z-Go…
Continue ReadingOfficial: Boats collide on Georgia river, 2 dead, 3 missing
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say two people have died and three others are missing after two motorboats collided on a river in coastal Georgia…
Continue ReadingFlorida gallery owner charged with peddling fake art pieces
By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Florida gallery owner has been arrested on federal charges…
Continue ReadingChampions League chaos: Tear gas fired at Liverpool fans
By ROB HARRIS and STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writers PARIS (AP) — Riot police fired tear gas and pepper spray at Liverpool supporters forced to endure…
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