BEIJING (AP) — China’s government says it would oppose possible U.S. plans to force TikTok’s Chinese owner to sell the short-video service as a security risk and warned such a move would hurt investor confidence in the United States. Governments are worried TikTok’s owner, ByteDance, might give browsing history or other data about users to
Continue Reading COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, whose half-century reign makes her Europe’s longest-serving monarch, is expected to resume most of her official duties after last month’s back operation, on her 83rd birthday next month. The palace said Thursday that following her Feb. 22 operation, her physical rehabilitation was “going well, but there will
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — British police have charged a 28-year-old man with two counts of attempted murder after men were set on fire near mosques. The West Midlands Police force said Mohammed Abbkr was charged over attacks in London and Birmingham, central England. The suspect is due to appear in court on Thursday. Abbkr is alleged
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China Evergrande, a real estate developer whose struggle to manage more than $300 billion in debt rattled global financial markets has announced a long-awaited plan to restructure what it owes to foreign bondholders. The Evergrande Group is the global real estate industry’s most heavily indebted company.
Continue Reading By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — Their hands are blackened and grimy from the fight. Some are still wearing their combat boots, small flecks of black soil from the battlefield clinging to their torsos, bare under the emergency blanket. With bandaged heads and splinted limbs, the wounded soldiers are stretchered into
Continue Reading By JAMEY KEATEN and DAVID McHUGH Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss central bank has hiked its key interest rate and declared that a government-orchestrated takeover of troubled Credit Suisse by rival bank UBS ended the financial turmoil. In a statement, the Swiss National Bank said Thursday that it’s providing large amounts of support
Continue Reading By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s parliament has passed the first of several laws that make up its contentious judicial overhaul. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition approved a motion Thursday that would protect the Israeli leader from being deemed unfit to rule over his corruption trial and claims of a
Continue Reading By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders have endorsed a plan for sending Ukraine 1 million rounds of artillery ammunition within the next 12 months to help the country counter Russia’s invasion forces. EU foreign and defense ministers approved the plan for a fast-track purchasing procedure earlier this
Continue Reading By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — The first daily fast of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan began Thursday, as hundreds of millions of Muslims worldwide enter a four-week period of worship. The observance comes at a time when numerous countries and governments across the Middle East are taking tentative steps towards
Continue Reading By ALEXANDER TURNBULL, NICOLAS GARRIGA and ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — More than 1 million people demonstrated across France on Thursday against unpopular pension reforms, and violence erupted in some places as unions called for new nationwide strikes and protests next week, coinciding with King Charles III’s planned visit to France. The Interior
Continue Reading By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press BAJRAM CURRI, Albania (AP) — Monika Mulaj’s son was in his second year of college in Albania, studying to become a mechanical engineer, when he resolved to make a daring change: He told his parents he would leave his lifelong home for a new future in Britain. “We had tried
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In a historic season for the club, the Yuma Heat swim team took an unprecedented leap from just two sectional qualifiers last year to nine in 2023.
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares fell Friday in Asia as worries over turmoil in the banking sector and recession risks overshadowed gains on Wall Street. Benchmarks declined in most major markets, while U.S. futures were higher. Oil prices fell. Investors are worried that more banks might suffer a debilitating exodus
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — South Korea’s unification minister and senior Japanese government officials have reaffirmed their close cooperation in response to North Korea’s escalating missile threats at a rare meeting, a sign of a further thaw in relations that comes only a week after their leaders agreed to work past their
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EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Connor McDavid scored his 60th goal of the season with his second of the game 1:31 into overtime to lift the Edmonton Oilers to a 4-3 victory over the Arizona Coyotes on Wednesday night. Moments after hitting the post, McDavid went high on Connor Ingram, giving him 60 goals in 72
Continue Reading By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister says his government has ”no intention” to return to four settlements in the occupied West Bank dismantled in 2005 under a law that was repealed by the Israeli parliament this week. Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement on Wednesday comes after the Biden administration summoned Israel’s ambassador
Continue Reading By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers on Thursday will vote on whether to allow penalties on oil companies for price gouging at the pump, a first-in-the-country proposal aimed at stopping the kind of spikes last summer that caused some drivers pay up to $8 per gallon as the industry reaped
Continue Reading By SAM METZ Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Gwyneth Paltrow’s attorneys asked the daughter of a man suing the actor-turned-lifestyle influencer over a 2016 ski collision about missing GoPro camera footage that they called “the most important piece of evidence” at trial Thursday. Steve Owens, Paltrow’s attorney, asked one of the man’s daughters,
Continue Reading By R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Civil liberties groups and defense attorneys are outraged at the domestic terrorism charges that have been levied against 23 people who were arrested after a masked group attacked an Atlanta-area police training center construction site. The suspects were taken into custody March 5 at a music festival
Continue Reading By TED SHAFFREY Associated Press MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) — Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman is a TikTok star at age 85, thanks to her 17-year-old grandson. In the family living room in Morristown, New Jersey, he records short videos of his grandmother reminiscing about life in 1944 and 1945 when she was a 6-year-old child at
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