Month: July 2023

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower on Monday after China reported weaker growth than forecast in the last quarter. Markets in Japan were closed for a holiday and Hong Kong’s market was shuttered due to a typhoon. U.S. futures and crude oil prices were lower. The Shanghai

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer FUKUOKA, Japan (AP) — Men will compete in artistic swimming at next year’s Paris Olympics. Men have competed at the lower levels in a sport formerly known as synchronized swimming. But next year for the first time they will have the Olympic stage. American artistic swimmer Bill May says

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Traffic on the key bridge connecting Crimea to Russia’s mainland was halted on Monday after reports of explosions that Crimean officials said were from a Ukrainian attack. The health ministry in Russia’s Krasnodar region, which lies at the eastern end of the bridge, said two people were killed in an unspecified

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Heavy downpours lashed South Korea for a ninth day on Monday as rescue workers struggled to search for survivors in landslides, buckled homes and swamped vehicles in the most destructive storm to hit the country this year. At least 40 people have died, 34 others

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Schools and the stock market are closed in Hong Kong as Typhoon Talim sweeps south of the city. As the financial hub braced for the rainy and windy weather on Monday, more than 100 people sought refuge at temporary shelters. Some government and ferry services were

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press LA PLATA, Argentina (AP) — Three decades ago, when he was a parish priest in Argentina, the man named by Pope Francis to be the Catholic Church’s new guardian of doctrinal orthodoxy wrote a short book about kissing and the sensations it evokes. Some conservative sectors in the church are

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Traffic on the key bridge connecting Crimea to Russia’s mainland has been halted amid reports of explosions. The governor of Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, announced the closure early Monday but did not specify the reason. News reports said local residents heard explosions before dawn, but there was

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — As Tokyo plans to discharge treated radioactive wastewater into the sea, Hong Kong’s Japanese restaurants and seafood suppliers are bracing for a slump in business under a potential ban by Hong Kong on aquatic products from 10 Japanese regions. Business owners fear the release of wastewater

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A magnitude 6.6 earthquake has struck deep in the Earth under Argentina and was felt in neighboring Chile, but authorities haven’t reported any damage. The quake struck at a depth of 106 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter was in the province of Neuquen, in western Argentina,

By DANIEL COLE Associated Press SAINTE-CROIX du VERDON, France (AP) — At the pristine southern French lake of Sainte-Croix-du-Verdon, tourists in pedal boats and on white water rafts — and the businesses that welcome them — have been buoyed by generous rainfall and good water management this spring. After a prolonged drought last summer, then

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In a modest gym in the heart of Kyiv, boxer Anna Lysenko dedicates long hours preparing for next year’s Paris Olympics despite the unsettling sounds of explosions booming outside. Lysenko already has Olympic experience, nearly winning a medal at the Tokyo Games in 2021, but her

By ZEN SOO AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — China’s economy grew at a 6.3% annual pace in the April-June quarter, much slower than analysts had forecast given the anemic pace of growth the year before. Quarterly growth, the usual measure for other major economies, was 0.8%, according to government data released Monday, in

BEIJING (AP) — China’s economy grew 6.3% in the second quarter after near-stagnant growth a year earlier. It missed analyst expectations even as momentum is expected to weaken in the coming quarters. The 6.3% growth in gross domestic product from April to June was the fastest in the past year and outpaced the 4.5% growth