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By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writers BEIJING (AP) — Global stocks followed Wall Street lower Thursday after notes from a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting dented hopes interest rate hikes are finished. London, Hong Kong, Paris and Seoul declined. Shanghai and Wall Street futures advanced. Oil prices rose. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 lost 0.8% on
Continue ReadingBy Miquel Ros, CNN (CNN) — Driving through the tiny village of Nahwa in the United Arab Emirate of Sharjah, you’d be hard-pressed to notice anything unusual. The local architecture and landscape looks pretty similar to that found all over the Hajar mountains, a rocky ridge that runs all along the eastern seaboard of the
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — Venus Williams will take part in a record-extending 24th US Open after receiving a wildcard from the US Tennis Association (USTA) to compete at this year’s tournament. It came on the same day the seven-time grand slam champion lost 11 games in a row as she succumbed from a
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN, MARY KATHERINE WILDEMAN and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press KIHEI, Hawaii (AP) — Hurricane-fueled flash floods and mudslides. Lava that creeps into neighborhoods. Fierce drought that materializes in a flash. Earthquakes. And now, deadly fires that burn block after historic block. Hawaii is increasingly under siege from disasters, and what is escalating
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s spy service has told lawmakers that North Korea is preparing a variety of weapons tests, including long-range missiles, in response to upcoming major U.S.-South Korean military drills. A lawmaker says the National Intelligence Service made the assessment in a closed-door parliamentary briefing. He
Continue ReadingBy HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press RIVNE, Ukraine (AP) — An organization in Ukraine is helping former soldiers who lost their vision in combat against Russia to reclaim a sense of autonomy. Along a bustling city street, a 34-year-old man takes his first independent steps since a mine exploded behind him more than a year ago.
Continue ReadingCNN By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Just hours after former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was dealt state charges accusing him, along with 18 other defendants including Donald Trump, of taking part in a broad criminal conspiracy to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results, he mounted an effort to move his case to
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN GILES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s newly elected Parliament meets on Thursday to choose the chamber’s speaker and presiding council in votes that could indicate the potential future color of the next government. Inconclusive national elections on July 23 left no party with an easy path to cobble together
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s central bank says it’s raising its key interest rate by a quarter-percentage point to combat high inflation. Norges Bank is hiking the rate to 4%, the highest level since 2008. It said Thursday that inflation — which reached 5.4% in July — ”has edged down but remains high and markedly
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By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A US Marine at California’s Camp Pendleton has been charged with sexual assault weeks after a missing 14-year-old was discovered in the military base’s barracks, according to a charging document. The Marine, whose name has not been publicly released, is charged with three counts of sexual assault of a
Continue ReadingBy K.M. CHAUDHRY and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press JARANWALA, Pakistan (AP) — Police in eastern Pakistan have arrested 129 Muslims after a mob angered over an alleged desecration of a Quran by two men attacked more than a dozen churches and homes of minority Christians. Authorities sent in soldiers to restore order. Police have also
Continue ReadingBy Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — As Brandi Chastain took the dreaded walk to the penalty spot, the weight of America was resting firmly on the left back’s shoulders. The US Women’s National Team (USWNT) was on the cusp of winning its second Women’s World Cup – this time in front of a sell-out home
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Manchester City struggled but ultimately won the UEFA Super Cup for first time in its history on Wednesday night after a penalty shootout victory over Spanish club Sevilla. The Premier League giant won the traditional curtain-raiser to the European football season – held between the winners of last season’s
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Con su abogado a cuestas, Rudy Giuliani viajó a Mar-a-Lago en los últimos meses con la misión de hacer un llamado personal y desesperado al expresidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, para que pagara sus cuentas legales. Al ir en persona, le dijo a CNN una fuente familiarizada con el
Continue Reading By Angus Watson and Heather Chen, CNN Sydney (CNN) — A Sydney court on Thursday acquitted the founder of global megachurch Hillsong of covering up child sexual abuse committed by his father in the 1970s. The Downing Centre Local and District Court ruled that Brian Houston, 69, had followed the wishes of his father’s victim
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — West African defense chiefs are meeting to discuss the crisis in Niger after coup leaders there ignored their deadline to step down, leaving the region’s countries with few options in their effort to restore democratic rule. Niger’s democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, was overthrown in July
Continue ReadingBy RYAN PEARSON and ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writers LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears ‘ husband Sam Asghari has filed for divorce from the superstar 14 months after a they were married, a person familiar with the filing said late Wednesday. The person, who is close to Asghari but not authorized to speak publicly,
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for patience in a speech released as the ruling Communist Party tries to reverse a deepening economic slump and said the West’s pursuit of material wealth led to “spiritual poverty.” Xi’s speech was published by Qiushi, the party’s top theoretical
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli forces raided a home above a bakery in a militant stronghold in the occupied West Bank, killing a Palestinian man in a gunbattle. It happened Thursday in Jenin, a city that has seen some of the worst bloodshed in the current
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Heavy rain in parts of Germany caused flooding and led to dozens of flight cancelations at Frankfurt Airport, the country’s busiest and a major European hub, authorities said Thursday. The airport said large quantities of water accumulated on the tarmac Wednesday evening and ground handling was suspended for more than two hours,
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