Month: June 2023

By JOE McDONALD and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street is relatively flat Monday following last week’s last surge propelled by U.S. jobs data that raised new questions about if or when a recession might arrive. Futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average are essentially unchanged heading into a week

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer DENVER (AP) — Staring down a 2-0 deficit in the NBA Finals, as the visitors in a hostile arena where no road team had prevailed in more than two months, the Miami Heat decided to do what they’ve done throughout the postseason. They found a way. Against all odds.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Iranian foreign ministry’s spokesman says his country will reopen its diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia this week, restoring diplomatic ties after a seven-year rift. State-run media reported on Monday that Iran’s Embassy in Riyadh, its consulate general in Jeddah, and office of the permanent representative of the country to the

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the U.K. government will house hundreds more asylum-seekers on barges. Two more barges will house about 1,000 migrants alongside one that’s set to be docked in Portland in southern England within the next two weeks. The move is meant to help save

NEBI SALEH, West Bank (AP) — A 3-year-old Palestinian boy who was shot by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank last week has died of his wounds. Israel’s Sheba Hospital, which had been treating him, announced the death on Monday. The boy was shot in the head last Thursday near his village of Nebi

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Germany and Indonesia have agreed to strengthen their defense cooperation and plan a joint military exercise with other countries in the region. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius discussed the growing ties in a meeting with his Indonesian counterpart, Prabowo Subianto, in Jakarta. Both ministers attended the

BERLIN (AP) — A German court says it is giving an 82-year-old man a “very last warning” to avoid jail after he was found guilty of drug dealing, despite 24 previous convictions. The retired seaman, who said he wanted to improve his meagre 800-euro ($855) monthly pension by selling marijuana, was handed a suspended sentence

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The CEO of OpenAI says he is encouraged by a desire shown by world leaders to contain any risks posed by the artificial intelligence technology his company and others are developing. Sam Altman on Monday visited Tel Aviv, a tech powerhouse, as part of a

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed a new media adviser who has tweeted critically against President Joe Biden. The Haaretz daily reported about the appointment late on Sunday. Gilad Zwick, a journalist with a conservative Israeli TV station, has in his tweets called Biden

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks and Wall Street futures rose Monday after U.S. jobs data suggested a recession might be farther off while at the same time inflation pressures are weakening. London and Frankfurt opened higher. Tokyo gained more than 2%. Shanghai and Hong Kong also rose. Oil prices

By KRUTIKA PATHI, RISHI LEKHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press BHUBANESWAR, India (AP) — Families of the victims of India’s deadliest train crash in decades filled a hospital in Bhubaneswar city on Monday to identify and collect bodies of relatives, as railway officials recommended the country’s premier criminal investigating agency to probe the crash that