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By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, was captured on Monday at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after three decades on the run, Italian paramilitary police said. Messina Denaro was captured at the clinic where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed medical

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is set to meet with her Chinese counterpart in Switzerland on Wednesday. Yellen and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He plan to discuss economic developments between the U.S. and China. The Treasury Department says the Zurich talks will be a follow-up to a meeting

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mostly higher in Europe and Asia on Monday ahead of China’s release of economic growth figures and a policy update this week from Japan’s central bank. Oil prices declined. Germany’s DAX edged 0.1% higher to 15,101.73 and the CAC40 in Paris was nearly unchanged

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Royal Mail has asked customers to refrain from posting items to overseas destinations until further notice as it tries to address a “cyber incident” that is temporarily preventing the postal service from sending letters or parcels to other countries. Royal Mail says it continues to experience “severe service disruption” but didn’t

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The four-day event celebrating African musicians across the continent culminated Sunday evening in a stadium on the outskirts of Senegalese capital Dakar. This was the eighth edition of AFRIMA and the first to be held in a French-speaking country. Nigeria has hosted most of the events

By ELENA BECATOROS and THEODORA TONGAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — As a crowd of thousands chanted “Long live the king” and “Constantine, Constantine,” the casket carrying the former and last monarch of Greece emerged from Athens’ metropolitan cathedral Monday after a funeral service attended by royalty from across Europe. Constantine’s wife, Anne-Marie, the

By GEIR MOULSON and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht has resigned following persistent criticism of her handling of military modernization programs and the country’s arms deliveries to Ukraine. Lambrecht said in a statement Monday that she had submitted her resignation request to Chancellor Olaf Scholz. She said that

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares are mixed in Asia after Wall Street benchmarks ended last week on a high note. Markets fell in Tokyo but advanced elsewhere in the region. The year has begun with optimism that cooling inflation could lead the Federal Reserve to ease off soon on sharp

BERLIN (AP) — Climate activists have occupied a giant digger at a coal mine in western Germany to protest the destruction of a nearby village for the expansion of a separate mine. Energy company RWE told German news agency dpa that four people boarded the digger early Monday. Operations at the Hambach mine have been

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The major political group embroiled in a massive European Union corruption scandal will seek this week to insulate itself from further fallout in the cash-for-influence affair linked to Qatar and Morocco. An official with the center-left Socialists and Democrats says the group wants to eject two lawmakers

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says his nation’s efforts to be carbon neutral by 2050 would rely in part on returning to nuclear power, even though his predecessor had tried to move away from atomic power. Yoon’s comments at a summit in

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The death toll from the weekend Russian missile strike on the apartment building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to 35, an official said Monday. Rescuers continued searching through the rubble for more victims, regional Gov. Valentyn Reznichenko said. At least 75 people were wounded and 35 others

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares advanced in Asia on Monday after Wall Street benchmarks ended last week on a high note. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 was the outlier, giving up 1.2% to 25,810.10, but other regional indexes were higher. Bangkok’s SET index jumped 4.3% on forecasts for a turnaround for the

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — A report says companies from at least 13 countries have helped Myanmar build up its capacity to produce weapons that are being used to commit atrocities. The report by the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar details how the country has stepped up arms production since the

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Anti-poverty group Oxfam says companies making big profits as inflation surges should face windfall taxes to help cut global inequality. That’s one of the recommendations in a report the group released Monday as the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting of political and business elites gets underway

By DANICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s government says it plans to privatize electricity generation, a first for a U.S. territory facing chronic power outages as it struggles to rebuild a crumbling electric grid. The move announced Sunday marks the beginning of the end for Puerto Rico’s Electric Power

BERLIN (AP) — A village in western Germany that is due to be demolished to make way for a coal mine expansion has been cleared of activists, apart from a pair who remained holed up in a tunnel, police said Sunday. The operation to evict climate activists who flocked to the site in the hamlet

JERUSALEM (AP) — In a story published January 3, 2023, The Associated Press reported that Sharaka, a group promoting ties between Israel and the Arab world, was having trouble finding Gulf Arab citizens interested in visiting Israel after the normalization of ties with countries of that region. The story should have made clear that Israel’s

ROME (AP) — Italian energy giant Eni has announced what it calls a significant gas discovery offshore of Egypt in the eastern Mediterranean. In a statement, Eni on Sunday said the discovery occurred in the Nargis offshore area concession. Eni said it will further develop the offshore area thanks to a recent award of several