Month: May 2023

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer World shares were mostly higher Monday after President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached a final agreement on a deal to raise the U.S. national debt ceiling, though the measure requires approval by Congress. Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Sydney and Shanghai advanced while Hong Kong fell. Markets in

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court has rejected a jailed publisher’s request to terminate his national security trial, pressing ahead with a landmark case seen as part of Beijing’s crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement. Jimmy Lai, the 75-year-old founder of the now-defunct newspaper Apple Daily, faces up

Associated Press Uganda’s president has signed into law tough new anti-gay legislation supported by many in the East African country but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad. The version of the bill signed by President Yoweri Museveni doesn’t criminalize those who identify as LGBTQ, a key concern for rights campaigners who condemned an

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An International Atomic Energy Agency team has arrived in Tokyo for a final review before Japan begins releasing massive amounts of treated radioactive water into the sea from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, a plan that has been strongly opposed by local fishing communities and neighboring countries.

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank have built a religious school at a dismantled outpost. The announcement Monday comes after Israel’s far-right government in March repealed a 2005 act that dismantled four West Bank settlements and banned Israelis from reentering the areas. Homesh, the

By THOMAS ADAMSON and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A United Nations committee is meeting in Paris to work on what is intended to be a landmark treaty to bring an end to global plastic pollution, but there is little agreement on what the outcome should be. The self-named “high ambition coalition” of

By CHINEDU ASADU ABUJA, Nigeria Associated Press (AP) — The new president of Nigeria takes the reins of power on Monday. Bola Tinubu will be sworn in as president of Africa’s most populous nation, taking over from Muhammadu Buhari, following elections in February. Tinubu takes office at a time when many Nigerians are struggling with

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian branch of the PricewaterhouseCoopers consultancy network has ordered nine partners to go on leave while an inquiry examines the leaking of confidential Australian tax avoidance policy changes to corporate clients who could benefit from the information. PwC’s acting chief executive Kristin Stubbins apologized Monday

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Evangelisto Ramos walked out of a New Orleans courthouse and away from a life sentence accompanying a 10-2 jury conviction, thanks in large part to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision bearing his name. Ramos v. Louisiana outlawed nonunanimous jury convictions as unconstitutional, with justices on

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The attacks come at night, when most in Kyiv are sound asleep. The sirens wail across the Ukrainian capital, rousing bleary-eyed residents, who, after 15 months of war, have customized individual routines to cope with Russia’s latest air campaign. In the recent escalation of Russian attacks,

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s government honored record-holding climbers Monday during celebrations of the first ascent of Mount Everest 70 years ago. The celebrations come amid a growing concern about temperatures rising, glaciers and snow melting, and weather being harsh and unpredictable on the world’s tallest mountain. Hundreds of people

MILAN (AP) — Italian firefighters say that they have recovered three bodies from a northern Italian lake after a tourist boat capsized in a sudden, violent storm. Divers backed by a helicopter continued to search for one person still missing after a whirlwind overturned the boat carrying more than 20 tourists and crew on Italy’s

By RADUL RADOVANOVIC and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press ZVECAN, Kosovo (AP) — Ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo have tried to take over the local government buildings where Albanian mayors entered last week with the help of police. Kosovar police and NATO-led Kosovo Force are seen protecting the municipality building in Zvecan, one of the four