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BERLIN (AP) — A union has called on Lufthansa’s ground staff to walk off the job for a day on Wednesday in a pay dispute, the latest of several transport strikes in the country. The Ver.di union called on ground staff for the German airline at Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin and Duesseldorf airports to strike

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was weighing a possible dismissal of the country’s top military officer, a prospect that has shocked the nation fighting Russia’s invasion and worried Kyiv’s Western allies. Asked whether he was considering the ouster of Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Zelenskyy told Italian

By KEN MORITSUGU and KEIRAN SMITH Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court has given a suspended death sentence to a China-born Australian democracy blogger. The Australian government, which has repeatedly raised his case over the years, said it was appalled. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson says the court found Yang Hengjun guilty of

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China’s stock market regulators have renewed their effort to reassure jittery investors by promising to crack down on stock price manipulation and “malicious short selling.” Share prices still sank on Monday, despite signs authorities may have sought to intervene with heavy buying of big cap shares

By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer It’s Taylor Swift’s world, and she just allows us to live in it. After weeks where she attracted endless attention for her football star boyfriend and a mystifying right-wing campaign against her, the Grammy Awards put the focus squarely back on her art. “Midnights” earned Swift her fourth career

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Noticeable pockets of Americans — renters, the poor and middle-income borrowers — are running up their credit cards balances, and increasing numbers are falling behind on their debts. It’s the latest sign that while the U.S. economy is broadly healthy, the last two years of

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Brazilian soccer star Dani Alves goes on trial Monday a year after he allegedly sexually assaulted a young woman at a Barcelona nightclub. The 40-year-old Alves is accused of sexually assaulting the woman on the night of Dec. 30, 2022. He denies any wrongdoing. The trial

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — It’s all been very messy. We’re talking about Lionel Messi and Inter Miami’s global tour of exhibition games where the main show has been Argentina’s 2022 World Cup-winning captain. The matches are about promotion and marketing, hoping to build a new brand by using stars like

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s sports minister has reiterated the government’s call for an explanation from the organizer of a soccer match between Inter Miami and a local team following widespread disappointment over Lionel Messi remaining on the bench throughout the entire game. The much-hyped exhibition match on Sunday

By JIWON SONG and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court has acquitted Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong of financial crimes related to a contentious merger in 2015 that tightened his grip over South Korea’s biggest company. The ruling by a Seoul court on Monday could ease the legal

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The second of back-to-back atmospheric rivers took aim at Southern California early Monday, unleashing mudslides, flooding roadways and knocking out power as the soggy state braced for another day of heavy rains. About 1.4 million people in the Los Angeles area, including the Hollywood Hills and

By MEGAN JANETSKY and MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Voters in El Salvador appeared to give Nayib Bukele a second term as president, putting him well on his way to a landslide victory in an election that for many hinged on the tradeoff of curtailed civil liberties for security in

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing discovered another problem in some of its 737 fuselages that may delay deliveries of about 50 aircraft in the latest quality gaffe to plague the manufacturer.  According to a letter from Stan Deal, CEO of Boeing’s commercial airplanes division, improperly drilled holes were discovered by Spirit AeroSystems, a

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment LOS ANGELES (AP) — Killer Mike was arrested at the Grammy Awards on Sunday after the rapper and activist won three Grammy awards including his first in more than two decades. In a video posted by the trade website The Hollywood Reporter, Mike was escorted in handcuffs by Los