Year: 2021

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are rising although optimism set off by a rally on Wall Street was dampened by concerns about the potential impact of the omicron coronavirus variant. Benchmarks rose in Japan, South Korea and China. Markets were closed in Australia for a national holiday. Stocks made

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press MANDAN, N.D. (AP) — A man scheduled for sentencing in the stabbing and shooting deaths of four people at a North Dakota property management firm is facing life in prison without parole. A jury in August found Chad Isaak guilty in the grisly 2019 deaths of RJR Maintenance & Management

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Keri Hulme, the New Zealander whose 1984 debut novel The Bone People won the Man Booker Prize, has died. She was 74. Family members confirmed Hulme died at Waimate on New Zealand’s South Island. They did not specify a cause. Hulme worked as a tobacco picker, dropped out of law

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party is pressing entrepreneurs to make the country a “technology superpower” that doesn’t need the United States or other foreign suppliers. The aim is to develop Chinese creators of computer, energy, medical and other technologies that can generate wealth and global influence. That

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria media are reporting that Israeli missiles fired from the Mediterranean struck the port of Latakia, igniting a fire in the containers area. The early Tuesday strike was the second such attack on the vital facility this month. It is also a rare targeting of the port handling much of Syria’s