Month: February 2023

MERIBEL, France (AP) — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin has taken the lead with her first run of the giant slalom at the world championships. Shiffrin was the third starter and beat the time of then-leader Tessy Worley of France by 0.12 seconds. Defending champion Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland had more than six-tenths to make up

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were mostly higher Thursday, cheered on by a stronger than expected reading on U.S. retail sales that set off a rally on Wall Street. France’s CAC 40 edged up 0.8% in early trading to 7,356.36. Germany’s DAX added 0.5% to 15,586.02. Britain’s FTSE 100

PARIS (AP) — France is bracing for a fifth day of nationwide strikes and protests against a pension reform that is the flagship policy of President Emmanuel Macron’s second term. Thursday’s protests are expected to be less disruptive that on previous occasions, with the Paris Metro working normally and most schools unaffected. A railway worker

By PIYUSH NAGPAL and ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s tax officials are searching the BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai for a third straight day seeking information about the organization’s business operations amid allegations of tax evasion. Some news staff members were questioned overnight, but the tax officials restricted themselves

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Nearly a year since fleeing Ukraine for Hungary amid the bombs and terror of Russia’s invasion, more than 100 young circus performers still hold intensive daily training sessions in Budapest while waiting to see what an uncertain future holds. The group, whose members are between the

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — In the cemetery where Oleksii Zavadskyi and Yurii Stiahliuk are buried, the women they loved take drags on the men’s favorite brands of cigarettes. Clouds of smoke are exhaled in silence. Interlaced between Anastasiia Okhrimenko’s dainty fingers are Camels. Anna Korostenska lights L&M’s, her hands shaking

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Thursday, cheered on by a stronger than expected reading on U.S. retail sales that set off a rally on Wall Street. In the latest data on the regional economy, Japan’s trade deficit reached a record 3.497 trillion yen ($26.2 billion) in

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister is in Kyiv for the first public visit to Ukraine’s capital by a senior Israeli official since Russia’s invasion last year. But there are no signs that Israel is preparing to significantly increase its modest support for Ukraine or meet Ukrainian requests

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has again pummeled Ukraine with a barrage of missiles, firing a combination of 36 cruise and other missiles and losing at least 16 of them to Ukrainian air defense batteries, Ukrainian officials said Thursday. The head of Ukraine’s presidential office said targets had been hit in the country’s north, west

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a powerful explosion inside a moving passenger train has killed at least one person and wounded eight others in eastern Pakistan. Thursday’s blast happened in Chichawatni, a district in the eastern Punjab province. District Police Chief Mian Mahboob said officers were investigating whether the explosion was caused by a

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has referred to North Korea as “our enemy” in its biennial defense document, reviving the label for its rival for the first time in six years. The defense white paper published Thursday says North Korea’s nuclear programs and provocations are serious threats to

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces have demolished the home of a Palestinian behind a deadly shooting in the occupied West Bank. The home, in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron, was demolished in a controlled explosion early Thursday. The Israeli military said the demolition was carried out after an Israeli court rejected