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By KEN MORITSUGU and KANIS LEUNG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Checkpoints and rows of police vehicles lined a major road leading to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Tuesday as China heightened security on the 35th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests. China has long quashed any memory of the killings, when the Chinese
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan and Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe departed from the far side of the moon on Tuesday, moving a step closer to completing an ambitious mission that underlines the country’s rise as a space superpower. In a symbolic moment before takeoff, China also reportedly became the first country
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares retreated Tuesday, with India’s Sensex dropping as much as 8% as investors who had bought shares after exit polls showed Prime Minister Narendra Modi winning a third term sold to lock in profits. Oil prices fell and U.S. futures edged higher. By mid-afternoon, the Sensex in Mumbai
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — German authorities say they have uncovered evidence of an Islamic extremist motive in last week’s knife attack in the southwestern city of Mannheim in which a police officer was fatally injured. The justice minister wrote on social media late Monday that “there are now clear indications of an Islamist motive” for the
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Australian government says its military will begin recruiting some noncitizens in a bid to boost troop numbers. Defense Minister Richard Marles says the move announced Tuesday is part of an effort to build a military that can resist foreign coercion through blocked trade routes. Only
Continue ReadingBy KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party showed a comfortable lead Tuesday, according to early figures reported by India’s Election Commission, but was facing a stronger challenge from the opposition than had been expected. The counting of more than 640 million votes cast
Continue ReadingBy Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of residents living near Mount Kanlaon in the Philippines were ordered to evacuate Tuesday after the volcano erupted, sending a three-mile tall (five-kilometer) ash column into the sky that caused dozens of flights to be canceled. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said Mount Kanlaon erupted
Continue ReadingBy Susannah Cullinane, Joe Sutton, Andy Rose and Michelle Krupa, CNN (CNN) — Constance Glantz had been in a nursing home – in hospice care. Whatever ailment had ushered the 74-year-old toward this inescapable brink, her death – as those whose business it is to care for the recently departed often say – had been
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Ken Hay’s part in the invasion of Normandy lasted just a few weeks, but he wants to make sure the experiences of those who fought and died to end the Nazi grip on Europe live forever. The British Army veteran was captured a few weeks after the
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China said its lunar spacecraft unfurled the country’s red and gold flag for the first time on the far side of the moon before part of the vehicle blasted off early Tuesday with rock and soil samples to bring back to Earth. The mission was hailed
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea have taken steps to suspend a contentious military agreement with North Korea and resume frontline military activities. The South Korean moves on Tuesday come as tensions between the rivals are rising over the North’s recent launch of trash-carrying balloons. South Korea’s Cabinet Council
Continue ReadingBy KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India was counting more than 640 million votes cast over the past six weeks in the world’s largest democratic exercise, which was widely expected to give Prime Minister Narendra Modi a third five-year term when the final result is declared later Tuesday. If
Continue ReadingBy KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India was counting more than 640 million votes cast over the past six weeks in the world’s largest democratic exercise, which was widely expected to give Prime Minister Narendra Modi a third five-year term when the final result is declared later Tuesday. If
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO and AMY TAXIN Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani is scheduled to plead guilty Tuesday to bank and tax fraud in a sports betting case where he will admit to stealing nearly $17 million from the Japanese baseball player. Tuesday’s change-of-plea
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO and AMY TAXIN Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani is scheduled to plead guilty Tuesday to bank and tax fraud in a sports betting case where he will admit to stealing nearly $17 million from the Japanese baseball player. Tuesday’s change-of-plea
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — Arizona would step directly into immigration enforcement by making it a state crime to cross the Arizona-Mexico border anywhere except a port of entry, under a proposal that’s up for a final vote by lawmakers on Tuesday. If approved, voters would decide in November if the measure becomes law. The measure, scheduled
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Amanda Knox will be back in an Italian courtroom this week to defend herself against a 16-year-old slander conviction that she hopes to beat once and for all. The opportunity for Knox, who turns 37 next month, was made possible when a European court ruled that Italy
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Pinch-hitter Pavin Smith connected for a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift the Arizona Diamondbacks over the San Francisco Giants 4-2 on Monday night. Jake McCarthy got the winning rally started with a looping, one-out double down the left-field line. Smith
Continue ReadingBEIJING, China (AP) — Checkpoints and rows of police vehicles lined a major road leading to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square as China heightened security on the 35th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests. China has long quashed any memory of the killings, when the Chinese government ordered in the army to end the months-long
Continue ReadingBy MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s newly elected president, the first woman to win the job, faces a long list of challenges, including persistent cartel violence, a deeply divided country, cash-straitened social programs and the long shadow of her mentor, outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. But for some analysts it
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