Month: July 2023

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares rose Thursday, boosted by Wall Street’s return to its highest level in more than a year after a report showed U.S. consumer inflation cooled a bit more than expected last month. France’s CAC 40 added 0.2% in morning trading to 7,350.45. Germany’s DAX edged

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The union representing film and television actors says no deal has been reached with studios and streaming services and its leadership will vote on whether to strike later Thursday. The Screen Actors Guild -American Federation of Television and Radio Artists said early Thursday that its decision on whether to join already

BERLIN (AP) — Climate activists are protesting at two German airports, causing numerous flights to be canceled during the peak holiday travel period. The group Last Generation said several of its members entered the grounds of Hamburg airport around 6 a.m. and glued themselves to the runway. Thursday is the first day of school vacation

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A Russian pro-democracy activist residing in Serbia and a fierce critic of the invasion of Ukraine says Serbian authorities have banned him from entering the country upon return from a trip abroad. Peter Nikitin told The Associated Press he was stopped at passport control at the

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A helicopter pilot says he and two of his passengers escaped serious injury by jumping into the ocean when a New Zealand volcano erupted in 2019, killing 22. Another two of pilot Brian Depauw’s joy flight passengers did not make it to the water, were engulfed

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A deadline for Hollywood actors to reach a deal with studios and streaming services passed Thursday without word on whether a strike will be called. The Screen Actors Guild -American Federation of Television and Radio Artists had set a deadline for 11:59 p.m. Wednesday — mere hours after this year’s Emmy

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A United Nations expert group is calling for the immediate release of a Cambodian-American human rights activist, saying an investigation it conducted has concluded she was being “arbitrarily detained in violation of international law.” The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said in a

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Kazuya Nakamura says he was 15 when one of the most powerful men in Japanese entertainment history forced him to have sex while he was part of a troupe of backup dancers managed by the legendary talent agent. At least a dozen other men have come forward

By YUCHENG TANG Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A Japanese tourist reaches into a baggie of cannabis he’s just bought in a central Bangkok weed shop, pulling out a gram of buds to chop down in a small black grinder, before rolling them neatly into a joint. Only the slight spillage onto the smoking lounge’s

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say three Pakistani soldiers and two insurgents have been killed in a shootout in the restive southwestern Baluchistan province. The military said the shootout happened Wednesday in the district of Sui, where the nation’s main pipelines of natural gas are located. Local officials said an operation to arrest the insurgents

By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer The Black Lives Matter movement hits a milestone on Thursday, marking 10 years since its 2013 founding in response to the acquittal of the man who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Gunned down in a Florida gated community where his father lived in 2012, Martin was one of the

By LORI HINNANT, HANNA ARHIROVA and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian civilians woke long before dawn in the bitter cold, lined up for the single toilet and were loaded at gunpoint into the livestock trailer. They spent the next 12 hours or more digging trenches on the front lines for

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces targeted Kyiv with a barrage of self-exploding Iranian-made Shahed drones early Thursday morning, according to the Kyiv City Administration. Explosions were heard in different parts of the city, and debris from intercepted drones fell on four districts of the Ukrainian capital, according to Ukraine’s