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BEIJING (AP) — A North Korean commercial flight has taken off from Beijing in a sign that Pyongyang is its opening its borders again after almost three years of severe COVID-19 restrictions. The Russian-made Air Koryo Tupolev Tu-204 jet with capacity for 210 passengers reportedly landed in the Chinese capital Tuesday morning and was filmed
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra began an eight-year prison sentence Tuesday after returning from years of self-imposed exile, while his allies in parliament faced a vote on their bid to form a government together with military parties that have been their rivals for decades. It was
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Microsoft has revamped its bid to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard to appease British competition regulators. They are the last major hurdle to closing one of the biggest deals in tech history. The Competition and Markets Authority said Tuesday that it’s opened a new preliminary investigation into the updated transaction with
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Not all narcissists are CEOs, celebrities or characters in a crime show. In fact, they may be around you more than you think. There is narcissistic personality disorder, which is rare at 1% or 2% of the population, said Dr. W. Keith Campbell, professor of psychology at the University
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY McAVOY, CLAIRE RUSH and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Two weeks after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century swept through the Maui community of Lahaina, authorities say anywhere between 500 and 1,000 people remain unaccounted for — a staggering number for officials facing huge challenges to
Continue ReadingBy PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday will consider whether Texas can keep a floating barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border as both the Biden administration and Mexico push to remove Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest hardline measure to deter migrants from crossing. The scheduled hearing in Austin
Continue ReadingBy PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — American sprinter Erriyon Knighton has often drawn comparisons to retired Jamaican great Usain Bolt. The 19-year-old Knighton doesn’t run away from those comparisons. He embraces the idea of following in Bolt’s footsteps and already is ahead of pace. He’s eclipsed some of Bolt’s under-20 records.
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — Although not a new phenomenon, health misinformation became even more widespread during the Covid-19 pandemic. A new poll from KFF finds that many Americans still encounter misinformation often and don’t know whether to believe it. Just over 2,000 adults took part in the survey, which was conducted between May
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets and Wall Street futures rose Tuesday as traders waited for signs of interest rate plans from this week’s Federal Reserve conference. London, Shanghai, Paris and Tokyo rose. Oil prices declined. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index rose Monday for its first gain in
Continue ReadingBy COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press ALEXANDROUPOLIS, Greece (AP) — A massive wall of flames raced through forests toward a port city in northeastern Greece overnight, prompting authorities to evacuate another eight villages and a city hospital as firefighters battled dozens more wildfires across the country on Tuesday. Gale-force winds and high summer temperatures have hampered
Continue ReadingPESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani emergency workers launched a rescue operation to try and save six children and two men trapped in a chairlift after one of its cables snapped off on Tuesday, leaving it dangling high above ground in the country’s northwest. The chairlift was installed across a river canyon, connecting villages in Battagram
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin will be notably absent when Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders from the BRICS group of emerging economies start a three-day summit in South Africa on Tuesday. The bloc, consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The defense and economy ministers in Denmark’s centrist government have swapped places. The move Tuesday came a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked Danish lawmakers for providing Kyiv with F-16 warplanes. Jakob Ellemann-Jensen — the deputy prime minister in the Danish three-party coalition — says he will become economy minister
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Parliament on Tuesday began voting in a second attempt to choose a prime minister, hours after ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra returned to Thailand after years of self-imposed exile and entered prison to begin serving an eight-year sentence. The Thaksin-linked Pheu Thai Party proposed former property developer
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By Jessie Yeung and Emiko Jozuka, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Japan will begin releasing treated radioactive water from Fukushima into the ocean as early as Thursday, officials announced on Tuesday, following months of heightened public anxiety and pushback from many neighboring countries. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said authorities would go forward with the release on
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, Jessie Yeung and Kocha Olarn, CNN (CNN) — Thaksin Shinawatra, the ousted fugitive former prime minister of Thailand, returned to the country Tuesday for the first time after more than 15 years in self-exile, reintroducing a towering and divisive figure at a time when the kingdom’s often fraught political scene is in
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A review of hundreds of emails provides insight into the damage control that top New Mexico State University administrators undertook after news broke this year about allegations of hazing on the men’s basketball team. More than 2,400 pages of documents released by the university in
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Russian air defense systems thwarted four nighttime Ukrainian drone attacks, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said Tuesday, with the falling wreckage of one drone shattering an apartment building’s windows and damaging vehicles in Moscow’s western suburbs. There were no reports of injuries in the latest drone attacks that Russia blamed on Kyiv,
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China has fined Mintz Group, an American corporate due diligence firm, about $1.5 million for allegedly conducting unapproved statistical work in the country, as it continues with a nationwide crackdown on consulting firms in the name of national security. The fine came to light months after authorities
Continue ReadingMihir Melwani, CNN (CNN) — Air travel between the Hermit Kingdom and the Middle Kingdom is possible once again. Air Koryo flight JS151 from Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital, arrived at Beijing’s PEK airport on Tuesday at 9:17 a.m. local time, according to the Beijing Capital International Airport website. This is the first known international commercial
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