Month: April 2023

BERLIN (AP) — German airline Lufthansa says it has agreed to sell the remainder of its catering business to European private equity group Aurelius for an undisclosed sum. Lufthansa said the sale of the rest of its LSG Group business, which follows the sale of European LSG Sky Chefs activities to Gategroup in 2019, is

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials have announced the first $196 million of grants in a $1 billion program to repair and replace aging and sometimes leaking natural gas pipelines across the country. The Transportation Department on Wednesday announced that the city of Las Cruces, New Mexico, will get $10 million as the first

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were trading mixed Wednesday as Germany reported its factory orders surged in February, posting their third successive increase in another promising sign for Europe’s biggest economy. The German Economy Ministry said orders were up 4.8% compared with January, the biggest rise since mid-2021. That

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s outgoing prime minister, Sanna Marin, says she will resign as the leader of her Social Democratic Party at the next party congress in the autumn. She said that “now it’s time to get in line again and leave the chairman’s place.” She said she would continue

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish officials say a Guinea-Bissau-flagged cargo ship with 14 crew members on board has sunk off Turkey’s Mediterranean coast. Five crew members were rescued while efforts to find nine others are underway. The Joe 2 sank off the coast of Kumluca, in Antalya province, on Wednesday while heading to Ukraine from

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press LONDON (AP) — On Oct. 14, a Russian engineer named Gleb Karakulov boarded a flight from Kazakhstan to Turkey with his wife and daughter. He switched off his phone to shut out the crescendo of urgent, enraged messages, said goodbye to his life in Russia and tried to calm his

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In her final speech to New Zealand’s Parliament, Jacinda Ardern describes in emotional terms how she navigated a pandemic and a mass shooting during her tumultuous five-year tenure as prime minister. She’s also urging lawmakers to take the politics out of climate change. A standing

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In October, an officer in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s elite personal security service defected while on a business trip in Kazakhstan. Now a wanted man in Russia, Gleb Karakulov spoke out for the first time in a series of interviews with the Dossier Center, an investigative group

By JAMEY KEATEN and DAVID McHUGH Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Swiss regulators have defended the rescue of Credit Suisse through a controversial takeover by rival bank UBS as the best solution with least risk of spreading a wider crisis and severe damaging Switzerland’s standing as a financial center. The head of the Swiss Financial