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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigrant farm workers would receive new protections under a Biden administration proposal to be announced Tuesday. It seeks to strengthen safety requirements on farms and raise transparency around how immigrant workers are brought to the U.S. to combat human trafficking. The proposal would reform the H-2A

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister says his government will not lift its embargo on imports of Ukrainian grain as scheduled Friday because it would hurt Polish farmers. Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, in an agreement with the European Union, imposed an embargo on Ukrainian produce from April until Sept. 15 to prevent a glut

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s Kim Jong Un rolled into Russia on an armored train Tuesday to see President Vladimir Putin, a rare meeting between isolated leaders driven together by their need for support in escalating standoffs with the West. Kim is expected to seek economic aid and

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan says China is continuously bolstering its military bases along the coastline facing Taiwan as Beijing steps up military activities around the territory it claims as its own. Taiwan says it will continue to monitor the Chinese activities around the island and bolster its defenses in

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Eva Fahidi-Pusztai, a Holocaust survivor who spent the late years of her life warning of the re-emergence of far-right populism and discrimination against minorities across Europe, has died. She was 97. The International Auschwitz Committee said Fahidi-Pusztai died in Budapest on Monday. A cause of death was

ROME (AP) — The World Food Program is warning that humanitarian funding cuts by governments are forcing the U.N. agency to drastically cut food rations to the world’s hungriest people. The Rome-based U.N. agency says that each 1% cut in aid risks to push 400,000 people toward starvation. The agency says the funding shortfall of

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has met President Vladimir Putin. at a cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East. It was the two isolated leaders’ second meeting. Their governments have not confirmed an agenda, but U.S. officials say Putin may ask for artillery and other ammunition

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan says it spotted 22 Chinese military aircraft and 20 warships near the island on Tuesday. Over the weekend, the United States and Canada sailed warships through the Taiwan Strait in a challenge to China’s sweeping territorial claims. On Monday, China sailed a naval formation led by an aircraft carrier about

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Rescue teams struggled amid devastation in eastern Libya, retrieving hundreds of bodies from the rubble in a coastal city that has been inundated by devastating floods, a humanitarian agency said Tuesday. Authorities estimated that as many as 2,000 people are believed dead in the city of Derna

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa has been acquitted of a final tax evasion charge though she still faces two remaining legal cases she believes the former Philippine president used to muzzle her critical reporting. Ressa and her news organization Rappler had faced five tax evasion charges but a court acquitted her of

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Tuesday following a Big Tech rally on Wall Street, as investors awaited an update on U.S. consumer prices set for later in the week. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 surged 1.0% to 32,776.37. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 added 0.2% to 7,206.90. South Korea’s