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BERLIN (AP) — Nearly all flights at Germany’s Cologne-Bonn airport and the majority at nearby Duesseldorf have been canceled or diverted as a result of strikes that also affected local transport, day-care facilities and local administration in Germany’s most populous region. Cologne-Bonn airport said that all but two of the day’s 136 planned flights wouldn’t

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Dilbert comic strip creator Scott Adams experienced possibly the biggest repercussion of his recent comments about race when distributor Andrews McMeel Universal announced Sunday it would no longer work with the cartoonist. Andrews McMeel Chairman Hugh Andrews and CEO and President Andy Sareyan said in a joint statement that

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA and LUIGI NAVARRA Associated Press STECCATO DI CUTRO, Italy (AP) — Rescue crews searched by sea and air Monday for the dozens of people believed still missing from a shipwreck off Italy’s southern coast that drove home once again the desperate and dangerous crossings of migrants seeking to reach Europe. At least

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — It was a night to celebrate for the stars of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” as it becomes the biggest movie in the awards multiverse. It took a long while for all the cast members to gather in the press room at the Screen Actors

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Last-minute technical trouble forced SpaceX to call off Monday’s attempt to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA. The countdown was halted with just two minutes remaining until liftoff from Florida. SpaceX delayed the launch until at least Thursday. The problem

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani official say police have arrested a retired army general and prominent supporter of former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad, on charges of inciting the public and government employees against national institutions. The charge against retired Gen. Amjad Shoaib carries a seven-year sentence. Shoaib appeared on

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press GUASTALLA, Italy (AP) — From the day of her birth in Pakistan, Iram Aslam was betrothed to a cousin 17 days older. But to the young woman, who emigrated as a teenager to this Italian farm town on the Po River plain, the cousin felt like a brother. So on

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A contingent of Chinese companies led by technology giant Huawei is turning out in force to the world’s biggest wireless trade fair. They’re aiming to show their muscle in the face of Huawei’s blacklisting by Western nations concerned about cybersecurity and escalating tensions with the

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The ex-husband and former in-laws of a slain Hong Kong model were put in custody without bail Monday on a joint murder charge, after police found parts of her body in a refrigerator. Ex-husband Alex Kwong, his father Kwong Kau and his brother Anthony Kwong were

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The celebration surrounding Damian Lillard’s record-breaking performance was short-lived. Lillard set franchise and career marks with 71 points — tied for the most in the NBA this season — and 13 3-pointers in the Portland Trail Blazers’ 131 -114 victory over the Houston Rockets

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nissan is speeding up its shift to electric vehicles, especially in Europe, where emissions regulations are most stringent. Nissan said in a statement it will make practically all its offerings electric or series-hybrids in Europe by fiscal 2026, at 98%, up from the previous target of

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A stock market filing says missing Chinese investment banker Bao Fan is co-operating in an investigation in China. China Renaissance Holdings Ltd., which Bao founded, gave no further details. The company says it has been unable to reach Bao but its operations continue as normal. The

By KALLE BENALLIE, ICT WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. (AP) — Madonna Thunder Hawk remembers the firefights. As a medic during the occupation of Wounded Knee in early 1973, Thunder Hawk was stationed nightly in a frontline bunker in the combat zone between Native American activists and U.S. government agents in South Dakota. “I would crawl out

By JOHN DANISZEWSKI and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Nearly 20 years after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein by U.S.-led forces, Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid wants the world to know his country now is at peace, democratic and intent on rebuilding economic life while maintaining a government that serves the whole country

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A spokesman for the Taliban government says their security forces killed two militants from the Islamic State group and detained a third in an overnight operation in the Afghan capital of Kabul. The officials said Monday that the raid in a residential neighborhood targeted IS militants who were planning to organize attacks

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Tensions that had been smoldering on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota flared up 50 years ago Monday, when activists from the American Indian Movement took over the town of Wounded Knee. In the view of the protesters, Oglala Sioux tribal chairman Dick Wilson was in

By TERRY DEVINE Associated Press Members of the American Indian Movement took over the town of Wounded Knee on Feb. 27, 1973, starting a 71-day occupation on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The standoff with the federal government grew out of turmoil within the Oglala Sioux Tribe as well as a protest

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of the nation’s business economists expect a U.S. recession to begin later this year than they had previously forecast, after a series of reports have pointed to a surprisingly resilient economy despite steadily higher interest rates. Fifty-eight percent of 48 economists who responded to