Month: June 2023

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn has filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Nissan and about a dozen individuals in Beirut over his imprisonment in Japan and what he says is misinformation spread against him, Lebanese officials said Tuesday. According to the officials, Ghosn’s lawsuit accuses Nissan and the

PARIS (AP) — French investigators searched the headquarters of Paris Olympic organizers on Tuesday in a probe into suspected corruption, according to the national financial prosecutor’s office. The Paris organizing committee said in a statement that a search was under way at their headquarters in the suburb of Saint-Denis, and that “Paris 2024 is cooperating

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Joe Biden convened a group of technology leaders on Tuesday to debate what he called the “risks and enormous promises” of artificial intelligence. The Biden administration is seeking to figure out how to regulate the emergent field of AI, looking for ways to nurture its

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say the country’s air defenses have downed 32 of 35 Shahed exploding drones Russia launched overnight. Most of them were taken down in the Kyiv region. The attack was part of a wider bombardment of Ukrainian regions that extended as far as the Lviv

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A senator has invited the International Criminal Court to investigate what Australian military commanders knew about war crime allegations in Afghanistan in a bid to pressure Australia into launching its own review. On Tuesday, Sen. Jacqui Lambie invited the Hague-based court because she says military commanders

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — China’s Alibaba Group has announced a major management reshuffle as the e-commerce giant restructures into six different business divisions to adapt to fast-changing technologies. The company says Eddie Wu, chairman of its e-commerce group, will succeed Daniel Zhang as CEO. Zhang will become CEO and chairman

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s chancellor has pressed China to lean harder on Russia over its war in Ukraine, while leaders from both countries have pledged to work together to combat climate change as two of the world’s biggest carbon dioxide emitters. Chancellor Olaf Scholz and about half of his Cabinet

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mostly lower Wednesday in Asia after Wall Street benchmarks retreated following the S&P 500’s rise to its highest level since the spring of last year. U.S. futures were little changed and oil prices rose. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 edged 0.1% higher to 33,427.14, while the

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Homeless people in California are already a vulnerable group, often struggling with poor health, trauma and deep poverty before they lose their housing, according to a new study on adult homelessness. The study released Tuesday by the University of California, San Francisco attempts to capture a

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Two Palestinian attackers have opened fire at a restaurant and gas station near an Israeli settlement in the West Bank on Tuesday, killing four Israelis and wounding several other people before they were shot dead, as violence roiled the occupied territory the day after a deadly Israeli

By BEN FINLEY and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press Rescuers in a remote area of the Atlantic Ocean raced against time Tuesday to find a missing submersible before the oxygen supply runs out for five people who were on a mission to document the wreckage of the Titanic. Authorities reported the carbon-fiber vessel overdue Sunday night,

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Visitors to Jordan this month noticed a new addition to the royal portraits over highways and hospitals. The 28-year-old Crown Prince Hussein and his glamorous Saudi bride, Rajwa Alseif, now beam down at motorists stuck in Amman traffic. Their royal wedding represented the pinnacle of the

By TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s removal of a subsidy that helped reduce the price of gasoline has increased costs for people already struggling with high inflation. But it also potentially accelerates progress toward reducing emissions in Africa’s largest economy. In a country where only about half of the population has

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The international rights group Amnesty International is urging Pakistan’s government to stop what it describes as random arrest of Afghan refugees within Pakistan. The U.N. refugee agency says there are more than 3.7 million Afghans in Pakistan but only 1.4 million are formally registered. Amnesty called on

By AAMER MADHANI and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is honoring Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a state visit this week. Biden is extending the high honor even though Modi’s government has stayed on the sidelines in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and as human rights activists express alarm about