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By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets surged Friday after Wall Street rebounded from a slump caused by higher-than-forecast inflation numbers. Market benchmarks in London and Paris opened up more than 1%. Tokyo jumped 3.3% for its biggest one-day gain in seven months. Hong Kong and Shanghai also rose. Benchmark
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By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets surged Friday after Wall Street rebounded from a slump caused by higher-than-forecast inflation numbers. Market benchmarks in London and Paris opened up more than 1%. Tokyo jumped 3.3% for its biggest one-day gain in seven months. Hong Kong and Shanghai also rose. Benchmark
Continue Reading ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey and Russia have instructed their respective energy authorities to immediately begin technical studies on a Russian proposal that would turn Turkey into a gas hub for Europe. Russian President Vladimir Putin has floated the idea of exporting more gas through the Turk Stream gas
Continue Reading ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey and Russia have instructed their respective energy authorities to immediately begin technical studies on a Russian proposal that would turn Turkey into a gas hub for Europe. Russian President Vladimir Putin has floated the idea of exporting more gas through the Turk Stream gas
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By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press IRVINE, California (AP) — President Joe Biden is highlighting his administration’s efforts to lower prescription drug costs on Friday as part of his three-state Western tour this week, as he confronts a sobering inflation report in the waning weeks before midterm elections. Biden visited a community college in Irvine, California,
Continue Reading By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press IRVINE, California (AP) — President Joe Biden is highlighting his administration’s efforts to lower prescription drug costs on Friday as part of his three-state Western tour this week, as he confronts a sobering inflation report in the waning weeks before midterm elections. Biden visited a community college in Irvine, California,
Continue Reading By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer SAN MARINO, Calif. (AP) — Bronx-born Ralph Lauren, a quintessential New Yorker, had never staged a runway show on the West Coast before. So clearly, with his first show in sunny California, he was going to go big — or, well, stay home. Big he went, staging a sumptuous
Continue Reading By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer SAN MARINO, Calif. (AP) — Bronx-born Ralph Lauren, a quintessential New Yorker, had never staged a runway show on the West Coast before. So clearly, with his first show in sunny California, he was going to go big — or, well, stay home. Big he went, staging a sumptuous
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN A Democratic House candidate in New Mexico, campaigning as a moderate in a tightly contested race, deleted tweets attacking the oil and gas industry, rationalizing rioting in summer 2020, and comparing the Trump administration to the Ku Klux Klan. The deleted tweets reviewed by CNN’s KFile on the
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, Luke McGee and Mark Thompson, CNN Business UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has fired finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng and ditched a big part of her discredited economic strategy in a desperate bid to rescue her month-old premiership. At a Downing Street news conference, Truss said she was scrapping plans to reverse a
Continue Reading By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Treasury chief is dashing back to London for urgent talks with Prime Minister Liz Truss amid growing expectations that they will scale back unfunded tax cuts to calm financial markets and quell a burgeoning revolt by members of their own party. Kwasi Kwarteng left the International
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, Sharif Paget and Jennifer Feldman, CNN Months after catastrophic flooding upended many lives in Kentucky, the death toll has officially risen to 43, with two additional people dying from health complications related to the crisis and one person still missing, Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday. “Let us pray for those families and
Continue Reading By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A former power station on the bank of the River Thames that was left derelict for decades has opened after a 9 billion-pound ($10 billion) redevelopment turning the south London site into a new attraction complete with shops, bars and hundreds of apartments. The coal-fired Battersea Power
Continue Reading By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A former power station on the bank of the River Thames that was left derelict for decades has opened after a 9 billion-pound ($10 billion) redevelopment turning the south London site into a new attraction complete with shops, bars and hundreds of apartments. The coal-fired Battersea Power
Continue Reading By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A pink diamond was sold for $57.7 million in Hong Kong on Oct. 7, setting a world record for the highest price per carat for a diamond sold at auction. The 11.15-carat Williamson Pink Star, auctioned by Sotheby’s Hong Kong, fetched close to $5.2 million per
Continue Reading By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A pink diamond was sold for $57.7 million in Hong Kong on Oct. 7, setting a world record for the highest price per carat for a diamond sold at auction. The 11.15-carat Williamson Pink Star, auctioned by Sotheby’s Hong Kong, fetched close to $5.2 million per
Continue Reading By SUNDAY ALAMBA and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press IGBO-ORA, Nigeria (AP) — Twins appear to be unusually abundant in Nigeria’s southwestern city of Igbo-Ora. Local chief Jimoh Titiloye says nearly every family in the city has twins or other multiple births. For the past 12 years Igbo-Ora has held an annual international twins festival. This
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Elon Musk dijo este viernes que al pedirle al Pentágono que pagara la factura de Starlink en Ucrania estaba siguiendo el consejo de un diplomático ucraniano que respondió al plan de paz de Musk en Ucrania a principios de este mes con un: “Vete a la m*****”. El embajador de
Continue Reading By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Russian man has been detained in Norway with two drones and is suspected of flying the unmanned aerial vehicles somewhere in the country. Numerous drone sightings have been reported near Norwegian offshore oil and gas platforms in recent weeks. Police said Friday that the
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By Ray Sanchez, Ryan Young, Devon Sayers and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A 15-year-old suspect is in custody after five people were killed and at least two others wounded in a mass shooting Thursday in Raleigh that North Carolina’s governor called a “moment of unspeakable agony.” A handgun and long gun were recovered after the shooting,
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