KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim rejects the notion that China’s dominance is to be feared. He called China a “true friend” at the end of Premier Li Qiang’s visit Thursday to mark 50 years of diplomatic ties between their countries. While the leaders raised some contentious bilateral issues, Anwar said
Continue ReadingBy KEIRAN SMITH Associated Press NEWCASTLE, Australia (AP) — Australia will provide a further $1.3 million to support reconstruction efforts in Papua New Guinea after last month’s deadly landslide. The South Pacific island nation off Australia’s northern coast is still struggling with the aftermath of the disaster in Enga province in its mountainous interior. The
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee, Alayna Treene, Kayla Tausche and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — One is secluding himself at a mountainside retreat with a tight circle of advisers, poring over briefing binders, honing attack lines and bracing for personal smears. The other is workshopping responses and retorts with vice presidential hopefuls, sharpening policy lines while working
Continue ReadingBy ZELIPHA KIROBI Associated Press MWINGI, Kenya (AP) — Antivenom for snakebites can be hard to find in Kenya, where about 4,000 snakebite victims die every year. About 7,000 others experience paralysis or other health complications. Residents fear the problem is growing. As the forests around them shrink due to logging and agricultural expansion, snakes
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — The trial of a US-Russian dual citizen, accused of committing treason by fundraising for Ukraine’s military, has begun in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg. Ksenia Karelina, 33, was detained in Yekaterinburg earlier this year while visiting her grandparents. She is accused of donating $51.80 to a Ukrainian charity in
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Today is the 2024 summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s also the first official day of summer — although swaths of the US have been baking in unseasonably high temperatures for weeks. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up
Continue ReadingBy KEIRAN SMITH Associated Press NEWCASTLE, Australia (AP) — The Australian Government announced it will provide a further two million Australian dollars ($1.3 million) to support reconstruction efforts in the region of last month’s major landslide in Papua New Guinea’s mountainous interior. The support comes as PNG continues to grapple with the aftermath of the
Continue ReadingBy DITA ALANGKARA and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press TANJUNGPINANG, Indonesia (AP) — Hundreds of refugees are living in community housing on an island in northwestern Indonesia while waiting for resettlement in a third country. Hotel Kolekta, a former tourist hotel there, was converted in 2015 into a temporary shelter that today houses 228 refugees from
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is joining African leaders to kick off a planned $1 billion project to accelerate the rollout of vaccines in Africa. The effort comes after the coronavirus pandemic exposed gaping inequalities in access to vaccines globally. The African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator will provide financial incentives to vaccine manufacturers. Many
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed in thin trading Thursday after U.S. markets were closed in observance of Juneteenth. U.S. futures and oil prices also were mixed. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index gained 0.2% to 38,633.02. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong shed 0.8% to 18,280.67. The Hang Seng
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Human-caused climate change dialed up the thermostat and turbocharged the odds of this month’s killer heat that has been baking the Southwestern United States, Mexico and Central America, a new flash study found. Sizzling daytime temperatures that triggered cases of heat stroke in parts of the
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Human-caused climate change dialed up the thermostat and turbocharged the odds of this month’s killer heat that has been baking the Southwestern United States, Mexico and Central America, a new flash study found. Sizzling daytime temperatures that triggered cases of heat stroke in parts of the
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan and Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Twelve weeks after the Dali cargo ship lost power and crashed into a famed Baltimore bridge, the mammoth vessel will soon leave for repairs – with only a handful of crew on board. The 20 Indians and one Sri Lankan on board have been stuck on
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — At least 34 people have died and dozens hospitalized after drinking illegally brewed liquor in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, local media reported on Thursday. The state’s chief minister M K Stalin said the 34 died after consuming liquor that was tainted with methanol, according to the Press Trust
Continue ReadingBy ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Magda Chambriard has been sworn in as the head of Brazil’s state-run oil giant Petrobras as market concerns of increased government intervention in the company mount. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva — who nominated Chambriard — attended the ceremony Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro.
Continue ReadingBy LORI HINNANT, VASILISA STEPANENKO and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — The first shock wave shattered aisles stacked almost to the ceiling with home improvement products. The next Russian bomb streaked down like a comet seconds later, unleashing flames that left the megastore an ashen shell. A third bomb failed to detonate
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Any hopes the governing Conservative Party may have of the Bank of England cutting its main interest rate from a 16-year high of 5.25% are expected to be dashed. That’s the case even though inflation in the U.K. has fallen back to its target rate for the first time in nearly three
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David Stan, a local boy who’s battling Acute Myeloid Leukemia, still continues to fight. “There’s no words to express our gratitude,” Sergeant Emil Stan said. “A few months back, we didn’t think this was going to happen, so luckily he was able to have the bone marrow transplant and we were able to find a donor
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The Philippines has accused China’s Coast Guard of launching a “brutal assault” with bladed weapons during a South China Sea clash earlier this week, a major escalation in a festering dispute that threatens to drag the United States into another global conflict. Footage released
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks mostly fell Thursday in thin trading after U.S. markets were closed Wednesday in observance of Juneteenth. U.S. futures and oil prices were mixed. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index edged 0.1% higher to 38,324.10. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong shed 0.5% to 18,336.76. The Hang
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