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The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is recalling more than 740,000 small SUVs in the U.S. because the headlight beams can be too bright and cause glare for oncoming drivers. The recall announced Tuesday comes after U.S. safety regulators turned down a request from the Detroit automaker to avoid the recall. The company

The Associated Press Approximately 3,000 Canadian Pacific Railway conductors, engineers, train and yard workers represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference will be returning to work after an agreement was reached between the railroad operator and union. A work stoppage that began Sunday brought trains to a halt across Canada and interrupted fertilizer and other

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street pointed toward a higher open on Tuesday, one day after Chairman Jerome Powell said the Federal Reserve was prepared to raise its benchmark short-term interest rate by a half-point multiple times, if necessary, to slow inflation. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrials rose 0.5% and the same for the

BERLIN (AP) — Electric car manufacturer Tesla opened its first European factory on the outskirts of Berlin in an effort to challenge German automakers on their home turf. The company says its new “Gigafactory” will employ 12,000 people and produce 500,000 vehicles a year. Initial production will focus on Tesla’s Model Y compact sport utility

BERLIN (AP) — The German government says retirees will get a hefty pension increase this year, a result largely of higher wages in Europe’s biggest economy as inflation has climbed sharply. The Labor Ministry said Tuesday that pensions will increase by 5.35% in the former West Germany on July 1 and by 6.12% in the

By MIKE SCHNEIDER and BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — With some workers across the U.S. threatening a walkout, The Walt Disney Co. finds itself performing a high-wire act of balancing the expectations of a diverse workforce against demands from an increasingly polarized and politicized marketplace. On the one side are LGBTQ supporters

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A U.K. ferry operator owned by the government of Dubai faces a Tuesday deadline to explain why it fired 800 workers without notice. British authorities say they may seek criminal penalties if the company is found to have acted illegally. P&O Ferries fired the crew members over

BERLIN (AP) — A strike by security staff at eight German airports including major intercontinental hub Frankfurt has led to widespread disruption and flight cancellations. The ver.di union called Tuesday’s all-day strike at the Frankfurt, Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg, Hannover, Stuttgart, Duesseldorf and Cologne-Bonn airports before a round of pay talks with employers that is set

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares are higher as investors eye the war in Ukraine and inflationary risks including rising energy costs. Benchmarks rose in early trading in Europe after finishing higher in Japan, South Korea, Australia and China. U.S. futures also were higher. Oil prices slipped, but the Russian

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Health officials in South Korea have instructed crematories to burn more bodies per day and funeral homes to add more refrigerators to store the dead. Families are struggling with funeral arrangements amid a rise in COVID-19 deaths. The country has been dealing with a massive

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government is alerting people in the Tokyo region they may face blackouts as power runs short after several coal-fired plants temporarily stopped generating electricity following an earthquake last week. The rare alert Tuesday came as people were using more heat than usual due to snow and

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels this week struck the same oil storage tank in the Saudi Arabian city of Jiddah they had previously hit a year and a half ago. That’s according to satellite photos by Planet Labs PBC. The photos were analyzed by The Associated

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government is alerting the Tokyo area of potential blackouts because power supplies are low after several coal-fired plants temporarily stopped generating electricity following last week’s earthquake. The rare alert coincided with snow and unusually cold weather Tuesday that prompted people to use heaters. A magnitude-7.4 earthquake

By AYA BATRAWY, STEVE KARNOWSKI and ROB GILLIES Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Farmers worldwide are weighing whether to change their planting patterns and grow more wheat this spring as Russia’s war in Ukraine has choked off or thrown into question grain supplies from a region known as “the breadbasket of the

By DAKE KANG and NG HAN GUAN Associated Press WUZHOU, China (AP) — Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards. Poignant reminders of 132 lives presumed lost were lined up by rescue workers scouring a remote Chinese mountainside Tuesday for the wreckage of a China Eastern flight that one day earlier inexplicably fell from the

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai’s main airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, says it will overhaul one of its two runways for 45 days, starting in May. The closure was announced on Tuesday will likely leading to flight reductions ahead of the traditional start of the summer season. The shutdown of the

BEIJING (AP) — The crash of a Boeing 737-800 passenger jet in China’s southwest started a fire big enough to be seen from space and forced rescuers to search a rugged, remote mountainside. One day after the China Eastern Airlines flight plunged from the sky, there are more questions than answers. State media and Chinese

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are higher as investors eye the war in Ukraine and inflationary risks including rising energy costs. Benchmarks rose in Japan, South Korea, Australia and China. The Russian war on Ukraine and Western sanctions in response to the invasion are adding to worries over potential

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An institution that has offered guided tours of the World Trade Center site since well before the national Sept. 11 museum was built is in financial trouble. Leaders say the 9/11 Tribute Museum is poised to close within weeks, unless it can find someone to provide