By Ben Morse, CNN Former US President Donald Trump will play a round with Bryson DeChambeau and Dustin Johnson ahead of the LIV Golf event which begins on Friday. The third event of the controversial Saudi-backed tour is being played at Bedminster, New Jersey, which is a Trump-owned course. A source with LIV Golf told
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics Co. has reported its operating profit rose 12% in the April-June quarter thanks to strong demand for server chips. The world’s top producer of smartphones and memory chips said in a statement Thursday that its operating profit for the last quarter rose to 14.1 trillion won ($10.8 billion)
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By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Seven people, mostly farmers, were killed by lightning in a village in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state, police said Thursday, bringing the death toll by lightning to 49 people in the state this week. The farmers had taken shelter under trees during a drenching monsoon rain
Continue Reading By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces on Thursday launched massive missile strikes on Ukraine’s Kyiv and Chernihiv regions, areas that haven’t been targeted in weeks, while Ukrainian officials announced an operation to liberate an occupied region in the country’s south. Kyiv regional governor Oleksiy Kuleba said on Telegram that a
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN An unrelenting heat wave will continue scorching the Northwest and parts of the South Thursday as millions endure yet another round of blistering temperatures. More than 30 million people in the US were under various heat alerts early Thursday. “The extreme heat is unfortunately expected to stay until the weekend, with
Continue Reading By ANDREW MELDRUM and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Russian, French and American leaders are crisscrossing Africa to win support for their positions on the war in Ukraine, waging what some say is the most intense competition for influence on the continent since the Cold War. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and French
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olivertapia (CNN) — Nadie puede darse el lujo de parecer débil. El último enfrentamiento de Estados Unidos con China fue provocado por los planes filtrados para una posible visita de la presidenta de la Cámara de Representantes, Nancy Pelosi, a Taiwán, y es particularmente peligroso porque está impulsado por la política interna en ambos lados
Continue ReadingCNN By Aya Elamroussi, CNN An unrelenting heat wave will continue scorching the Northwest and parts of the South Thursday as millions endure yet another round of blistering temperatures. More than 30 million people in the US were under various heat alerts early Thursday. “The extreme heat is unfortunately expected to stay until the weekend,
Continue Reading PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Baltimore family is suing a Sesame Street-themed amusement park for $25 million over claims of racial discrimination, alleging multiple costumed characters ignored a 5-year-old Black girl during a meet-and-greet event last month. The lawsuit comes in the wake of a video, shared widely on social media, showing two other Black girls
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — A large wildfire on the German-Czech border spreading and threatening to destroy a forested national park popular with tourists. The fire in the region called Bohemian Switzerland on the Czech side and the Saxon Switzerland national park on the German side started last weekend. German news agency dpa reported the blaze had
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — After going backward from January through March, the U.S. economy probably didn’t do much better in the spring. On Thursday morning, the government will reveal just how weak economic growth was in the April-June quarter — and perhaps offer clues about whether the United States may
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — After going backward from January through March, the U.S. economy probably didn’t do much better in the spring. On Thursday morning, the government will reveal just how weak economic growth was in the April-June quarter — and perhaps offer clues about whether the United States may
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s push to obtain UNESCO World Heritage recognition for a former gold mine key to the nation’s industrialization will be delayed. The Sado Island mine in northern Japan operated for nearly 400 years and was once the world’s largest gold producer before closing in 1989. But the
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Continue Reading By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — New forecasts by Australia’s government say runaway inflation will remain unacceptably high for the next two years and economic growth will slow without falling into recession. Treasurer Jim Chalmers outlined to Parliament on Thursday a deterioration in the country’s economic outlook since a new government was
Continue Reading BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Two Hall of Fame baseball players are leading a push to bring the sport that made them famous to India, Pakistan and the Middle East. Former New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera and ex-Cincinnati Reds shortstop Barry Larkin are the familiar faces behind the United International Baseball League. The UIBL plans
Continue Reading By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Sections of a renowned peatland tropical forest in the Congo Basin that plays a crucial role in Africa’s climate system go up for oil and gas auction in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Thursday. The DRC government will auction 30 oil and
Continue Reading By FARES AKRAM Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s Hamas rulers have imposed a slew of new taxes on imported clothes and office supplies just ahead of the new school year, sparking limited but rare protests in the impoverished coastal strip. The move by the militant group comes at a time when
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