By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police say a woman accused of assisting a suspect in the gruesome killing and dismemberment of model Abby Choi in Hong Kong has been arrested by mainland authorities. The arrest of the 29-year-old woman brings the total number of people allegedly involved in the
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government says it’s ready for human-rights legal challenges to a tough new law intended to stop tens of thousands of migrants a year reaching the country in small boats across the English Channel. Home Secretary Suella Braverman said Tuesday the government had “pushed the boundaries
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN China’s leader Xi Jinping hit out at the United States with unusually direct comments as he called on the country’s private companies to “fight” alongside the Communist Party at a time of mounting challenges at home and abroad. “[In the past five years,] Western countries led by the United States have
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency intentionally destroyed a new H3 rocket minutes after its launch Tuesday because the ignition failed for the second stage of the country’s first new rocket series in more than two decades. Coming three weeks after an aborted launch due to a separate glitch, the
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez Beijing (CNN) — El nuevo ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de China, Qin Gang, advirtió este martes que el “conflicto y la confrontación” con Estados Unidos son inevitables si Washington no cambia de rumbo, lo que representa una severa y amplia reprimenda a las polÃticas estadounidenses en su primera conferencia de prensa en su
Continue Reading By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — South Korean technology firm Kakao has launched a tender offer to buy up to 35% of K-pop agency SM Entertainment and become its largest shareholder, escalating a battle with entertainment firm Hybe for control of the company. Kakao offered a tender price of 150,000 won ($115)
Continue Reading By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Still recovering from the effects of the first battering, the southeastern African nation of Mozambique is bracing for a rare second hit by long-living Tropical Cyclone Freddy late on Friday night, a regional weather center said Tuesday. The United Nations’ monitoring station on the Indian Ocean
Continue ReadingBy Phil Mattingly, Chief White House correspondent A top adviser to the core group of senior officials at the center of President Joe Biden’s White House is set to depart the West Wing in the coming days. Remi Yamamoto, senior adviser for the office of the chief of staff, will become the latest senior official
Continue Reading By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made an unannounced visit Tuesday to the Iraqi capital where he vowed to continue the fight against the Islamic State group until the extremists are defeated. Austin, whose visit came just days before the 20th anniversary of the U.S.-led
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN Conor Benn’s scheduled fight with Chris Eubank Jr. last year was meant to be career defining for both men. Except the fight never took place and now Benn says the fallout of its cancellation has raised serious questions about boxing’s drugs testing protocols. The two were scheduled to take to their
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN China’s leader Xi Jinping hit out at the United States with unusually direct comments as he called on the country’s private companies to “fight” alongside the Communist Party at a time of mounting challenges at home and abroad. “[In the past five years,] Western countries led by the United States have
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were mixed in muted trading Tuesday as investors tried to digest a slew of economic data and awaited moves by the U.S. Federal Reserve. France’s CAC 40 fell 0.1% in early trading to 7,363.24. Germany’s DAX added nearly 0.1% to 15,659.63. Britain’s FTSE 100
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau China’s new Foreign Minister Qin Gang warned Tuesday that “conflict and confrontation” with the United States is inevitable if Washington does not change course, delivering a stern and wide-ranging rebuke of US policies for his first press conference in the new role. Qin, who was until recently China’s
Continue Reading By ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media say an Israeli airstrike has hit the airport in the city of Aleppo and put it out of service. The state news agency SANA cites a military official as saying that Israel “carried out an air attack from the direction of the Mediterranean
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s trade contracted again in January and February as U.S. and European demand weakened in the face of interest rate hikes, adding to pressure on official efforts to revive economic growth following the end of anti-virus controls. Customs data show exports sank 6.8% from a year
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Watson and Nouran Salahieh, CNN The remains of a woman found in a small Massachusetts town in 1978 were identified more than four decades after her death using “old fashioned police work” — and help from advances in forensic genetic genealogy, officials announced Monday. Referred to for decades as “Granby girl,” alluding to
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson, CNN A nearly 8-foot alligator that allegedly was taken from a Texas zoo nearly 20 years ago as an egg or a hatchling has been returned to the facility after it was spotted living illegally in the backyard of a home near Austin, officials say. Investigators were at a property in rural
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The Mizzou men’s basketball team took care of business, winning their last few conference games to finish the season and earn a No. 25 spot in the AP Top 25.
Continue Reading By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan failed to appear in court in Islamabad to answer charges in a graft case against him, apparently a maneuver by his legal team to avoid arrest. Khan was required to appear in person and respond to charges of selling state gifts
Continue ReadingBy Josh Campbell, Abel Alvarado, Karol Suarez, Caroll Alvarado and Eric Levenson, CNN Two of the four Americans kidnapped by armed gunmen in the Mexico border city of Matamoros on Friday were found dead and two were found alive on Tuesday, US and Mexican officials said. Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown were found dead, a
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