Month: July 2022

By LAURA MCMULLEN of NerdWallet Rising prices can feel impossible to manage if money is already tight. To stay afloat, prioritize essential expenses that enable you to live and work. If you can’t cover those bills, seek support through programs such as Findhelp.org and 211. Your neighbors, family members and other community members may be

BEIJING (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is visiting Mongolia during a trip to Asia seeking support amid his country’s diplomatic isolation by the West and punishing sanctions leveled over its invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov held talks with Mongolia’s foreign minister and paid a courtesy call on its president. Mongolia is a landlocked nation

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say at least nine people, including women and children, were killed as heavy rains lashed southwestern Baluchistan province and triggered flash floods in several places. Seven people died when the roofs of their houses collapsed in the downpour overnight. Two bodies swept away by flash floods were found near

By The Associated Press After more than four months of ferocious fighting, Russia claimed a key victory: full control over one of the two provinces in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland. But Moscow’s seizure of the last major stronghold of Ukrainian resistance in Luhansk province came at a steep price. The critical question now is whether

PARIS (AP) — French authorities say they have repatriated 51 women and children from former Islamic State-controlled areas in Syria. The national antiterrorist prosecutor’s office said the repatriation on Tuesday is the single largest return of women and children to France from camps in northeastern Syria since the territorial defeat of the Islamic State group

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine army general says a land mine set by communist guerrillas has wounded seven soldiers in the central Philippines, in one of the insurgents’ first known attacks since President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took office last week. An army commander says troops were checking reports of anti-personnel mines laid by New

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni medical officials say an explosion at an arms depot has killed three people and wounded 18 in the southern province of Abyan. Tuesday’s blast took place in the town of Lawdar. Yemeni officials say many of the wounded have critical injuries and that they fear

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The 30 NATO allies signed off on the accession protocols for Sweden and Finland on Tuesday, sending the membership bids of the two nations to the alliance capitals for legislative approvals — and possible political trouble in Turkey. The move further increases Russia’s strategic isolation in the

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Shares declined Tuesday in Europe after an upbeat session in Asia, while Wall Street futures slipped ahead of the reopening of U.S. markets from the Independence Day holiday. Benchmarks also fell in Paris, London, Frankfurt and Shanghai. But stocks gained in Tokyo, Seoul and Hong Kong.

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria is celebrating 60 years of independence from France with nationwide ceremonies, a pardon of 14,000 prisoners and its first military parade in years. The events on Tuesday mark the country’s official July 5, 1962 declaration of independence after a brutal seven-year war which ended 132 years of colonial rule. The