Month: July 2023

BEIJING (AP) — China’s government has appealed to Japan not to disrupt the semiconductor industry after Japanese curbs on exports of chip-making technology took effect, adding to technology restrictions Washington and its allies on security grounds have imposed on Beijing on security grounds. The Japanese restrictions limit Chinese access to tools for etching microscopically small

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden has represented her country at the Olympics in Tokyo, a king’s coronation in London and a royal wedding in Jordan. She gets another chance to put her ambassadorial skills to work this week when the United States formally rejoins a United Nations agency devoted to

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers say an overloaded passenger boat has capsized off Indonesia’s Sulawesi island with 15 people killed. Authorities said Monday that the 33 other passengers survived. A local search and rescue agency said that the vessel was traveling from Lanto village in Buton Central regency in Southeast Sulawesi province to nearby Lagili

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — World shares were mixed on Monday as investors cautiously awaited another interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve. Benchmarks rose in London, Tokyo and Frankfurt but fell in Paris and Shanghai. U.S. futures edged higher while oil prices fell. U.S. futures edged lower and oil prices

By SOPHENG CHEANG and DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s longtime ruling party is lauding its landslide victory in weekend elections as a clear mandate for the next five years, but the United States says its stifling of the opposition meant the vote could not be considered free or fair and

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities in Nigeria say more than 100 people who died in 2020 during protests against police brutality will soon be buried. The burial plans were announced by the Lagos State Ministry of Health after local media broke the news, prompting criticism from rights groups and activists

By JOSEPH WILSON and CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain may be facing political gridlock and possibly a new election, but a national ballot produced one result that will be welcomed across the capitals of Europe: a far-right party aiming to get its hands on the levers of power was thwarted. Spain’s Vox

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s military says nine people including four military personnel have been killed after a civilian plane crashed in airport in the eastern coastal city of Port Sudan. The military said that a child survived late Sunday’s crash which took place after the after Antonov plane took off

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Eight police officers assigned to a security team protecting South Africa’s deputy president have been arrested and are expected to appear in court on Monday after they were caught on video kicking and stomping on two men on a Johannesburg highway this month. One of the men

By MICHAEL VARAKLAS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press RHODES, Greece (AP) — A week-old wildfire on the Greek resort island of Rhodes has torn past defenses, forcing more evacuations. Strong winds and successive heat waves fueled three major fires raging elsewhere in Greece. The latest evacuations were ordered in south Rhodes after 19,000 people, mostly

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s opposition leader is insisting that there will be no “cooperation” at the local level between his party and the far-right Alternative for Germany after his suggestion that they might somehow work together drew unease within his own conservative bloc. Friedrich Merz’s center-right party has long said it won’t work with Alternative

By FELIPE DANA and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian authorities accused Ukraine of launching a drone attack on Moscow early Monday that saw one of the aircraft fall near the Defense Ministry’s main headquarters, while the Russian military unleashed new strikes on port infrastructure in southern Ukraine. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Jesuits said Monday that a famous artist priest is definitively expelled from the religious order for sexually, spiritually and psychologically abusing women, and lamented they couldn’t prosecute him more vigorously under the Vatican’s internal procedures. The Rev. Marko Ivan Rupnik remains a Catholic priest but is