Month: October 2021

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s opposition Labor Party says a looming election will be fought on greenhouse gas reduction targets as Prime Minister Scott Morrison comes under criticism over the modest goals he will take to a U.N. climate summit. Morrison has been left no room to move on Australia’s

By JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An attorney says the family of a mentally ill man who died in a California police shooting received only partial justice after jurors convicted a sheriff’s deputy of assault with a gun but deadlocked on a charge of voluntary manslaughter. Andrew Hall was convicted Tuesday in

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and China are stepping up their war of words over Taiwan in a long-simmering dispute that has significant implications for the power dynamic in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. While the disagreement over Taiwan has long vexed U.S-China relations, recent developments suggest the two

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Senate committee has recommended that President Jair Bolsonaro face a series of criminal indictments for actions and omissions related to the world’s second highest COVID-19 death toll. The 7-to-4 vote by the 11-member committee Tuesday ends its six-month investigation of the government’s handling of

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Florida’s surgeon general has said that conversations while wearing masks aren’t productive after a state senator didn’t let him in her office without a mask, citing a serious health condition. Dr. Joseph Ladapo says that he offered to meet outside or in a hallway for his

By ALBERTO ARCE and RODRIGO ABD Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Youri Mevs is not starving, not struggling for survival — in so many ways, she is unlike the migrants who are fleeing Haiti’s misery. She traces her roots to ancestors who came to Haiti generations ago and built fortunes. But like those emigrants,

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets are lower after Australian inflation rose to a six-year high and a Chinese newspaper warned more property developers might default on bonds. Investors looked ahead to U.S. economic growth data due out this week. London and Frank opened lower, shrugging off strong U.S.