Year: 2022

By RAF CASERT and COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — New far-right Premier Giorgia Meloni has used her first visit to European Union headquarters to declare that Italy will be a force to reckon with in EU affairs. It was unclear whether that was a promise or a threat from one of the bloc’s

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Three Chinese companies have been ordered to sell lithium mining assets in Canada after the country’s government imposed limits on foreign involvement in supplying “critical minerals” used in batteries and high-tech products. The order comes as tensions simmer between the West and China over control of sources of lithium, rare earths,

By ELAINE KURTENBACH and GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Amnesty International is urging suppliers of aviation fuel to Myanmar to suspend their shipments to prevent the military from using them to conduct air attacks on civilian targets. The London-based rights group says it has documented diversion of aviation fuel that is supposed to

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Annual inflation in Turkey continued to rise in October and push the price of essential goods higher and amplifying a cost-of-living crisis in the country. The Turkish Statistical Institute said Thursday that consumer prices rose to 85.51% in October from a year earlier and by 3.54% from the previous month. The

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz is making his first visit to China as German leader this week, a diplomatically delicate trip while Germany and the European Union work on their strategy toward an increasingly assertive and authoritarian Beijing. Scholz’s messages will face close scrutiny. While his nearly year-old government

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Not long after Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, soldiers broke down the office door of Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov. They put a bag over his head, bundled him into a car and drove him around the southern city for hours, threatening to kill him. Fedorov, 34,

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — A new study shows more than 100,000 people die in fishing-related accidents each year and many of those fatalities were preventable. The report by the Pew Trust and the Fish Safety Foundation released Thursday says the number of deaths is triple or more earlier estimates. It

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Friday led by a 5.8% jump in Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index as Chinese markets were lifted by speculation that Beijing might begin to ease pandemic restrictions. Tokyo’s Nikkei fell, catching up after Japan’s markets were closed Thursday for

BEIJING (AP) — Canadian public broadcaster CBC says it is closing its China bureau after the Chinese government ignored requests to base a reporter in Beijing. CBC said its applications had been met “by monthslong silence from Chinese officials.” The broadcaster’s last correspondent left Beijing as China closed down amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.