By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Japanese beverage giant Kirin Holdings will sell its stake in Myanmar Brewery to its joint venture partner Myanma Economic Holdings Plc. Kirin said the share buyback agreement took into account its employees and other stakeholders and would be the fastest way to exit the venture. MEHL
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, CNN After more than a year on the surface of Mars, China’s Tianwen-1 probe has taken images covering the entire red planet, the country’s space agency announced Wednesday. Tianwen-1, which means “quest for heavenly truth,” was launched in 2020 and landed on Mars last May, when the Zhurong rover on board started
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By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government has declared American far-right groups the Proud Boys and The Base are terrorist organizations, making it illegal in New Zealand to fund, recruit or participate in them. New Zealand has become more attuned to far-right threats after a white supremacist shot and
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By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers on Wednesday approved a nearly $308 billion spending plan that includes money to cover abortions for women who can’t afford them and the health care costs for low-income adults living in the country illegally while sending cash payments to most taxpayers to help offset
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Thursday, June 30th marks the last day for employees at RI International Mental Health Urgent Care in Palm Springs. Peer Support Specialist, Jessica Hurst, has been with the company for almost 4 years. “I felt violated, I felt used, I felt like I didn’t matter. That none of us mattered to this company. That we’re
Continue Reading By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Whether Shohei Ohtani is unleashing his 101 mph fastball or dispensing his large array of breaking balls, the Angels’ two-way ace has overpowered every opponent during his shutout surge through June. Ohtani still had to dig deep into his nearly bottomless bag of pitches to
Continue Reading By DAVID RISING and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Sri Lanka’s strategic location has attracted outsized interest in the small island nation from regional giants China and India for more than a decade, with Beijing and its free-flowing loans and infrastructure investments widely seen as having gained the upper hand in the
Continue Reading CARSON, Calif. (AP) — Emanuel Reynoso scored two goals as Minnesota United stopped a three-game league losing streak with a 3-2 win over the LA Galaxy on Wednesday night. Reynoso scored in the 43rd minute to put United (6-8-3) up 3-0. He also scored in the ninth minute and Franco Fragapane made it 2-0 in
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Christian Arango, Danny Musovski and Kwadwo Opoku each scored for Los Angeles FC in a 3-1 victory over Dallas on Wednesday night. Arango’s goal put LAFC (11-3-3) ahead 2-1 in the 57th minute. Musovski opened the scoring in the 23rd and Opoku capped it in the 86th. Jesús Ferreira scored his
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan, CNN Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was sworn in as the 17th President of the Philippines on Thursday, restoring one of the country’s most notorious political dynasties to the Malacañang Palace 36 years after his father was ousted in a popular uprising. Marcos Jr., known as “Bongbong” in the Philippines, won a landslide in
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By Jalen Beckford, CNN Human remains found in West Texas in 2013 have been identified as a teen reported missing more than 20 years ago, state officials said. The remains, now identified as Sylvia Nicole Smith, were found in Midland County while workers were surveying near an oil field well site, the Texas Department of
Continue Reading By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to begin a two-day visit to Hong Kong to mark the 25th anniversary of the city’s handover to mainland China, with a raft of heightened security measures and thousands of guests put into quarantine ahead of the celebrations. Xi, who
Continue Reading By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the namesake son of an ousted dictator, was sworn in as Philippine president Thursday in one of the greatest political comebacks in recent history that opponents say was pulled off by whitewashing his family’s image. His rise to power, 36 years after an
Continue Reading VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A pre-dawn explosion and fire leveled a home, injuring one person inside, and damaged at least two other homes Wednesday in Southern California, authorities said. The blast occurred shortly before 3 a.m. in the San Bernardino County desert community of Victorville, about an hour’s drive northeast of Los Angeles. The cause
Continue Reading By CHRISTINA LARSON and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press Los Angeles and Mumbai, India, share many superlatives as pinnacles of cinema, fashion, and traffic congestion. But another similarity lurks in the shadows, most often seen at night walking silently on four paws. These metropolises are the world’s only megacities of 10 million-plus where large felines —
Continue Reading By CHRISTINA LARSON and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press Los Angeles and Mumbai, India, share many superlatives as pinnacles of cinema, fashion, and traffic congestion. But another similarity lurks in the shadows, most often seen at night walking silently on four paws. These metropolises are the world’s only megacities of 10 million-plus where large felines —
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a 20-year-old woman was fatally shot Wednesday night while she pushed her infant daughter in a stroller on the Upper East Side. The woman was near the intersection of Lexington Avenue and 95th Street around 8:30 p.m. when she was shot, police said in statement. She was taken to
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — An official survey shows China’s factory activity accelerated in June after anti-virus controls were eased and Shanghai and other industrial centers reopened. The monthly purchasing managers’ index released by the national statistics bureau and an industry group rose to 50.2 from May’s 49.6 on a 100-point scale on which numbers above 50
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — Skylar Diggins-Smith had 17 points and seven assists, Sophie Cunningham added 14 points and the Phoenix Mercury beat the Indiana Fever 99-78 on Wednesday night. Phoenix (9-12) beat Indiana for a seventh straight time, including an 83-71 victory on Monday. Shey Peddy and Diamond DeShields each added 13 points for Phoenix, which
Continue Reading By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Amos Hochstein, President Joe Biden’s point man for global energy problems, says he knows that transitioning away from the climate-wrecking pollution of fossil fuels is the only way to go. He advocates urgently for renewable energy, for energy-smart thermostats and heat pumps. But when it comes to
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