By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar, once a thriving emerging economy, is struggling to regain momentum as the country’s civil war increasingly disrupts trade and livelihoods. World Bank economists estimate the country’s economy grew at a 1% annual pace in the year that ended in March, A World Bank report issued
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Chen, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — In late April, Albina Roman and her daughter landed at Los Angeles International Airport and saw the rest of their family for the first time in nearly three years. In the terminal, 8-year-old Muhsenat ran toward her father, shaky cell phone video captured by Ahmad Roman shows.
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Hunter Biden’s historic conviction on three felony gun charges will add significant weight to a blockbuster Second Amendment appeal to be decided in coming days by the Supreme Court. Though the case deals with different circumstances and a different provision of a federal gun law, the
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — At least 35 people died in a building fire early Wednesday in Kuwait, the state-run news agency reported. KUNA said another 15 people were injured in the fire, which broke out in the southern Mangaf district. The fire had been brought under control and that authorities were combing the
Continue ReadingBy JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A special judge’s court in Bangladesh has indicted Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and 13 others on charges in an over $2 million embezzlement case. Yunus, 83, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for pioneering microcredit to help impoverished people, pleaded not guilty and
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Hezbollah fired a massive barrage of rockets into northern Israel on Wednesday to avenge the killing of a top commander, further escalating regional tensions as the fate of an internationally-backed plan for a cease-fire in Gaza hung in the balance. The retaliatory attack
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The Hong Kong government has canceled the passports of six overseas-based activists under the new national security law, stepping up its crackdown on dissidents who moved abroad. Former pro-democracy lawmaker Nathan Law and five others are accused of endangering Hong Kong national security. The government said
Continue ReadingCNN, WXIA, WANF By Shawn Nottingham, Nick Valencia and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Atlanta police had barely finished briefing the community about a shooting inside a downtown food court Tuesday afternoon when calls began to come in about a bus hijacking. A gunman had hijacked a commuter bus with 17 people inside and shot
Continue ReadingBy JAMES ELLINGWORTH AP Sports Writer DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Six years ago, Ilkay Gündogan’s place on the German national team was in question over a photograph with Turkey’s president. Now he’s the team captain. When Gündogan leads the German national team out against Scotland in the European Championship opener Friday, he will be its
Continue ReadingBy Shawn Nottingham, Nick Valencia and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Atlanta police had barely finished briefing the community about a shooting inside a downtown food court Tuesday afternoon when calls began to come in about a bus hijacking. A gunman had hijacked a commuter bus with 17 people inside and shot one of them
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito really wasn’t caught. The religious zeal reflected in the surreptitious recordings made public this week has long been evident in Alito’s statements and written opinions. But his remarks, captured secretly by a liberal activist presenting herself as a conservative Catholic, reinforce
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mixed Wednesday in Asia ahead of a decision by the Federal Reserve on interest rates. In Japan, higher inflation and falling wages raised questions about how the central bank can navigate away from near-zero interest rates. The Bank of Japan will issue a policy
Continue ReadingGENEVA (AP) — U.N.-backed human rights experts say in a report issued Wednesday that Israeli forces and Palestinian militants engaged in sexual and gender-based violence during the first months of the Israel-Hamas war. The independent experts, in a detailed chronicling of events that have mostly been reported in the media, said Israeli forces and Palestinian
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The Palm Springs Police Department is using new technology to improve communication between its department and the public. It’s being called ‘Power Engage’, and its designed to bring more transparency to police reports, as well as give people a way to send their feedback directly to the PSPD. News Channel Three’s Tori King spoke with
Continue ReadingBy Sugam Pokharel, Catherine Nicholls, Jessie Yeung and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN (CNN) — A United Nations inquiry into the first few months of the war in Gaza has found both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes and grave violations of international law, in the body’s first in-depth investigation into the October 7 attacks and the
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday will likely make official what’s been clear for many weeks: With inflation sticking at a level above their 2% target, they are downgrading their outlook for interest rate cuts. In a set of quarterly economic forecasts they will issue after their
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan and Marc Stewart, CNN Jilin, China (CNN) — An American college instructor has recounted the horror of surviving a stabbing attack in China, offering the first personal account of an incident that has been given limited media coverage within the country. David Zabner is one of four Cornell College instructors attacked Monday
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s top trade official is predicting China will lift a ban on Australian lobster imports after Chinese Premier Li Qiang visits the country. That would end the final obstacle for exports to China since it imposed a series of official and unofficial trade barriers in 2020.
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City’s historic Chapultepec Castle has been depicted flying the Targaryen flag, and officials in Mexico aren’t amused. The producers of the HBO series “House of the Dragon” posted a video this week showing the black Targaryen flag hanging over the battlements of the 19th-century landmark in Mexico City. Mexico’s National
Continue ReadingBy BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Teoscar Hernández and Jason Heyward homered in a seven-run sixth inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers routed the defending World Series champion Texas Rangers 15-2 on Tuesday night. Will Smith blasted a three-run shot in the first, giving the Dodgers a
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