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By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has accused the U.S. of hostility and says it will consider restarting “all temporally-suspended activities,” in an apparent threat to resume testing nuclear devices and long-range missiles. The North had already warned of stronger and more explicit action after the Biden administration imposed

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global stocks are mixed after China cut interest rates and President Joe Biden said “we’re not there yet” on lowering punitive tariffs on Chinese goods. London and Tokyo gained while Shanghai and Frankfurt declined. Wall Street futures were higher a day after the benchmark S&P 500

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A long-awaited report on the Catholic Church’s handling of cases of sexual abuse by clergy and others in Germany’s Munich archdiocese is set to be released. The archdiocese commissioned the report from a law firm nearly two years ago, with a mandate to look into abuse between

LONDON (AP) — British police say they have arrested two people in connection with a hostage-taking at a synagogue in Texas. Counter Terrorism Police North West said one man was arrested on Thursday in Birmingham, central England, and another in Manchester. They are being held for questioning and have not yet been charged. British citizen

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — As the massive undersea Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Saturday, Tongans from around the world gazed on as their relatives livestreamed images of the billowing clouds of ash, gas and steam emerged from beneath the depths. Then darkness. The eruption severed Tonga’s single fiber-optic cable,

VIENNA (AP) — Austria’s parliament is due to vote on introducing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for adults, the first of its kind in Europe. The mandate would apply to all residents of Austria age 18 and over, with exemptions for pregnant women, individuals who for medical reasons can’t be vaccinated, and people who have recovered

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer Some European countries such as Spain are making tentative plans for when they might start treating COVID-19 as an “endemic” disease, but the World Health Organization and other officials have warned that the world is nowhere close to declaring the pandemic over. Diseases are endemic when they occur regularly

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon says it plans to open a clothing store in a Southern California mall later this year, a first for the online behemoth and a fresh challenge for already struggling traditional retailers. Amazon said Thursday that the store will sell women’s and men’s clothing, as

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Some Conservative lawmakers in Britain are talking about ousting their leader, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, over allegations that he and his staff held lockdown-breaching parties during the coronavirus pandemic. The party has a complex process for changing leaders that starts by lawmakers writing letters to demand a

By ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — With one of Europe’s highest vaccination rates and its most pandemic-battered economies, the Spanish government is laying the groundwork for a new different COVID-19 playbook. The idea is to move from crisis mode to control mode, from pandemic to endemic, approaching the virus in much the same

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press At some of the world’s most sensitive spots, authorities have installed security screening devices made by a single Chinese company with deep ties to China’s military and the highest levels of the ruling Communist Party. The company, Nuctech, has been frozen out of the U.S. for years due to national