AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Thursday, with Tokyo’s benchmark dipping more than 2%, after Wall Street’s record-breaking rally slammed into a wall of worries over potentially worsening trade tensions with China. By early afternoon, Japan’s Nikkei 225 index was down 1.9% at 40,324.17. The markets’ spotlight was squarely on
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The EU general court says the European Commission did not allow the public enough access to information about COVID-19 vaccine purchase agreements it secured with pharmaceutical companies during the pandemic. The decision Wednesday comes a day ahead of a vote at the European Parliament at which European Commission President Ursula
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) MLB’s All-Star Game was held on Tuesday. Did you watch the game? Let us know in the poll and in the comments.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. Central Command says that the Islamic State group is trying “to reconstitute” as the number of attacks in Syria and Iraq is on track to double this year, compared to the year before. IS has claimed 153 attacks in both countries in the first six months of 2024,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Several major universities in Bangladesh have agreed to shut their doors after at least six people died in violent campus protests. Also Wednesday, protest organizers said they would shut down all but essential services as relentless clashes between demonstrators and police stretched into the night. Protesters are demanding an
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the U.K. held steady at the Bank of England’s target rate of 2% in June. The Office for National Statistics said Wednesday that the largest upward contribution came from restaurants and hotels, with some economists attributing the increases to Taylor Swift’s tour of the U.K. The biggest downward
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip Wednesday in the Seine River, fulfilling a promise to show that the long-polluted waterway was clean enough to host swimming competitions during the 2024 Olympics as well as part of the opening ceremony, now only nine days away. Daily water quality tests in
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DALLAS, Texas (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team is now one step closer to kickoff. The Tigers tackled the 2024 edition of SEC Media Days in Dallas, on Tuesday. MU came into the event off of the best season its seen in the head coach Eli Drinkwitz era, capturing 11 wins in 2023. However, the team
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — In a year of major elections setting the course of many countries for years to come, China’s ruling Communist Party is holding top-level meetings in Beijing to draft policies for reviving its slowing economy. The closed-door meetings come at a time of growing pressure to fix chronic problems dragging
Continue ReadingAP Science Writer The head of upcoming climate negotiations is telling world leaders that a new financial aid package for poor and disaster-struck nations is the urgent and make-or-break goal of United Nations talks this fall. Mukhtar Babayev, the Azerbaijan ecology minister who will preside over the November talks in his home country, said time
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The fatal stabbing of two people by a man at a residential compound in southern China has ignited an online debate that has amplified during a summer scarred by a spree of similar crimes across the country. Two days after those June 28 killings in the Guangxi region, national
Continue ReadingBy Michael Mitsanas, Audry Jeong and Yoonjung Seo, CNN (CNN) — A prominent North Korea expert and former CIA analyst has been indicted by a New York grand jury on charges of secretly working for the South Korean government in exchange for designer goods, Michelin star meals and $37,000 for a fund that she controlled.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Initial autopsy results showed traces of cyanide in the blood of six Vietnamese and American guests at a luxury hotel in central Bangkok and one of them is believed to have poisoned the others over a bad investment, Thai authorities said Wednesday. The bodies were found Tuesday in the Grand
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — Papua New Guinea’s sidelined Petroleum Minister, Jimmy Maladina, will appear in a Sydney court in March to fight a charge of assaulting a woman during a domestic dispute. The 58-year-old appeared in the Downing Centre Local Court on Wednesday to have a hearing date set over the assault that allegedly occurred in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A final blast from The Mirage’s signature volcano marked the passage Wednesday of an aging Las Vegas resort that wowed crowds when it opened in 1989 and went on to revolutionize the casino resort industry and reshape Las Vegas as a tourist destination. “What would The Mirage be without
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — After almost 30 months of war with Russia, Ukraine’s difficulties on the battlefield are mounting even as its vital support from the United States is increasingly at the mercy of changing political winds. A six-month delay in military assistance from the U.S., the biggest single contributor to Ukraine, opened
Continue ReadingBy Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — Here’s something you can text your friends about. It’s World Emoji Day, a completely made up, delightful, and, yes, annual chance to reflect on the thousands of symbols and smileys we’ve come to love, laugh about and, sometimes, lament. In other words, 🎉, 😂 or, 😭, depending who
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) In August, students will return to the University of Missouri’s campus for the 2024 fall semester, months before the presidential election. Students are also returning after former President Donald Trump was grazed in the ear by a bullet in an assassination attempt on Saturday during a rally in Pennsylvania. A spokesman for
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton Police Department deputy chief said one a man was found dead in a residential street on Tuesday afternoon. The Fulton Police Department advised residents on Tuesday to avoid the area of town near Kathy Street. FPD Deputy Chief Dall Hedges said one person was found dead at the scene. He
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — On the floor of the Republican National Convention Tuesday evening, vice presidential candidate JD Vance greeted and shook hands with excited delegates as he walked toward his seat. It was a marked contrast from former President Donald Trump, who entered the hall a few minutes later and was separated from
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