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By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A major, long-shot effort is gearing up to mobilize money to save Planet Earth by helping poorer countries go greener. Climate experts say trillions of dollars are needed to roll out forestry projects and renewable energies like solar and wind in the developing world,

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mixed on Wednesday after Wall Street rose to its highest level since early 2022, slightly below its record high, following a report showing inflation in the United States is behaving pretty much as expected. Benchmarks declined in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Seoul but

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press A clerk and recorder who expressed doubt about the integrity of the election process during her 2022 campaign lost her election oversight duties in a vote by county commissioners. After taking six hours of public comment on Tuesday, two commissioners voted in favor of the county hiring an independent

By ZEN SOO AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — A Chinese C919 commercial passenger jet has arrived in Hong Kong in the Chinese-made aircraft’s first foray outside of mainland China. A C919 plane and another Chinese-made aircraft, an ARJ21, landed Tuesday and will be on display at Hong Kong’s international airport until Sunday. The

By UZMI ATHAR, Press Trust of India DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As this year’s global climate talks reach a conclusion, activists are hoping that negotiators will listen to their stories as they weigh what to do about the fossil fuels that are warming the planet. One of those is Joseph Kenson Sakala, who

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia says China has lifted import bans on three Australian meat suppliers in another sign of improving trade relations between the two countries. Australian officials said Tuesday that China’s customs agency had announced overnight the removal of the bans on beef and sheep meat exports from

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has appointed a technocrat as second finance minister in a Cabinet shuffle aimed at strengthening his administration and winning public trust a year after taking power. The shuffle was widely expected and expanded the number of portfolios with the appointment of five new ministers. Anwar,

By RIAZ KHAN and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle at a police station’s main gate in northwestern Pakistan early Tuesday, killing at least 23 troops, wounding 32 and causing a part of the building to collapse, authorities said. The attack — one of the deadliest

By LISA MASCARO, AAMER MADHANI and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told America his country was fighting for “our freedom and yours” as he made an impassioned plea Tuesday for Congress to approve more assistance to fight Russia’s invasion. But prospects for additional U.S. aid to Ukraine appeared seriously

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The university presidents called before a congressional hearing on antisemitism last week had more in common than strife on their campuses: The leaders of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard and MIT were all women who were relatively new in their positions. In that sense, they represented

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The constitutional right of equal treatment under the law is at the center of a monthslong legal fight over a state-run court in part of Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city of Jackson. A federal judge is set to hear arguments Dec. 19 over the Capitol Complex

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong leader John Lee on Tuesday praised the 27.5% voter turnout in the city’s weekend election, a record low since the territory returned to Chinese rule in 1997. Sunday’s district council election was the first held under new rules introduced under Beijing’s direction that effectively

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school board has recommended the resignation of one of its members who is embroiled in the fallout of a sexual assault investigation into her husband, Republican Party state chairman Christian Ziegler. The Sarasota County School Board cannot oust Bridget Ziegler outright from the panel

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, whose reelection in the GOP stronghold of Kentucky boosted his standing among next-generation political leaders, railed against the politics of division as he launched his second term on Tuesday. In his inaugural speech outside a sun-splashed Kentucky Capitol, Beshear invoked his Christian

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Even before anyone has cast a vote in a 2024 presidential primary, the attention of many political journalists has shifted to Jan. 20, 2025. There has been a flurry of recent stories about the implications of a potential second presidency for Donald Trump, and his

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed legislation that repealed a law requiring women to purchase a separate insurance rider if they intend to receive an abortion in the future. The law had been passed by Michigan’s Republican-controlled Legislature exactly 10 years ago. Whitmer was a state

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — To hear his lawyers tell it, Donald Trump was alarmed by Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, motivated as president to focus on cybersecurity and had a good-faith basis four years later to worry that foreign actors had again meddled in the race. But to federal prosecutors,

By JON GAMBRELL, JAMEY KEATEN, SIBI ARASU and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Hopes for finishing a critical climate summit on time faded early Tuesday as countries were still far apart on key issues, including an agreement on what to do about the fossil fuels that are causing dangerous global

By GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The director of the Miss Nicaragua pageant, Karen Celebertti, on Monday announced her retirement from the organization, nine days after the Nicaraguan police accused her of “conspiracy” and other crimes along with her husband and son, who are detained. “The time has come for my retirement,”