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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer A class action lawsuit is being filed against the parent company of Silicon Valley Bank, its CEO and its chief financial officer, saying that company didn’t disclose the risks that future interest rate increases would have on its business. The lawsuit against SVB Financial Group, CEO Greg Becker and

By DAVID KOENIG and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press Saudi Arabia is buying up to 121 jetliners from Boeing in a big boost for the American manufacturer. The deal was expected to be announced Tuesday. The order for Boeing 787s will be divided between Saudi Arabia’s flag carrier, Saudia, and a planned new airline to be

By MICHAEL PHILLIS and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed the first federal limits on harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water, a long-awaited protection the agency said will save thousands of lives and prevent serious illnesses, including cancer. The plan would limit toxic PFAS chemicals to the

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia’s prime minister has accused a Moscow-dominated security alliance of leaving his country in the cold in the face of a threat of renewed hostilities with neighboring Azerbaijan. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has been repeatedly critical of what he described as the failure of the Collective

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The blonds are back. Puerto Rico on Friday broke the Guinness World record for the most hair dyed. A total of 192 men went blond to support the U.S. territory’s team that is vying to win the World Baseball Classic after finishing twice as

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch voters are going to the polls Wednesday in local elections with a national impact. Campaign themes range from local bugbears like dwindling public transport in remote villages to global issues such as migration and the environment. It is also a test of strength for

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — FIFA president Gianni Infantino will be re-elected this week to lead a richer-than-ever soccer body with an ambition to add new and bigger competitions despite growing wariness of him in Europe. FIFA has $4 billion in reserves after the World Cup in Qatar. It plans to

By BABAR DOGAR and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police are scuffling with former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s supporters outside his home in the eastern city of Lahore. About a dozen officers and some 35 Khan supporters were injured in the violence Tuesday. Police arrived to arrest Khan for failing to

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The start of a winter storm with heavy, wet snow caused a plane to slide off a taxiway and led to hundreds of school closings, canceled flights and thousands of power outages in parts of the Northeast. The storm’s path Tuesday included parts of New England,

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of Israeli writers, artists and intellectuals have called on Germany and Britain to cancel upcoming visits by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The call came in a letter released on Tuesday. They say Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul Israel’s judicial system has put the country on a destructive

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s central bank has extended the timeline to swap out its old currency for redesigned notes after the change triggered a cash shortage. A spokesman for the central bank says the announcement is meant to comply with a directive from the Supreme Court, which ruled that

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle flooded New Zealand with gigantic amounts of rain last month and scientists say they are sure that climate change is a factor. But researchers are unable to say just how big a role global warming played in one of the worst disasters in the country’s history.

By ELIZABETH AYOOLA of NerdWallet It’s the first quarter of the year, and many people may be interested in starting side hustles for extra income or to finally pursue their entrepreneurial dreams. Whatever the motivation, it’s important to know the implications of starting a side gig while having a 9-to-5 job. This includes understanding how

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Mongolia plans to channel revenue from rising copper exports into an economic development fund as part of changes to reap more benefit from its mineral riches and root out corruption, the North Asian nation’s prime minister said in an interview Tuesday following the opening of a

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s embattled currency has hit a new low, trading at an unprecedented 100,000 Lebanese pounds to the dollar on the black market as the crisis-hit country’s banks went back on strike. The pound has kept sinking since Lebanon’s financial meltdown erupted in 2019, following decades of rampant

By ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The City of Light is losing its luster with tons of garbage piling up on Paris sidewalks as sanitation workers strike for a ninth day Tuesday. The creeping squalor is the most visible sign of widespread anger over a bill to raise the French retirement age by

By KARL RITTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian missile has struck an apartment building in the center of the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk. Officials said the strike killed at least one person and wounded three others in one of Ukraine’s major city strongholds in its eastern Donetsk region as it fights against

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — European markets were mixed Tuesday after a broad retreat in Asia led by declines in bank shares as investors watched to see what’s next following the second- and third-largest bank failures in U.S. history. Oil prices fell nearly $2 a barrel while U.S. futures were higher.

BEIJING (AP) — China says the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom are traveling “further down the wrong and dangerous path for their own geopolitical self-interest.” China’s Foreign Ministry was responding Tuesday to an agreement under which Australia will purchase nuclear-powered attack submarines from the U.S. to modernize its fleet. Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said

By ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday aiming to increase the number of background checks to buy guns, promote better and more secure firearms storage and ensure U.S. law enforcement agencies are getting the most out of a