USAID head urges crisis-hit Sri Lanka to tackle corruption
By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A visiting U.S diplomat has urged Sri Lankan authorities to tackle corruption and…
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Catalan separatists rally as movement frays 5 years on
By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Around 150,000 Catalan separatists have rallying in Barcelona in an attempt to reignite…
Continue Reading As small businesses raise prices, some customers push back
By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Inflation isn’t only costing small businesses money. It’s costing them customers as well. At…
Continue Reading Eastern Ukraine towns hit in overnight strikes
By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Through the debris-strewn rooms of the bomb-blasted house, the incessant ringing of a…
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The worst of inflation finally might be over
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Is inflation really peaking? Are consumers growing more confident? We’ll get those answers this week when…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: Ukraine’s threatened nuclear plant shuts down
By The Associated Press The last operating reactor at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is Europe’s largest, was shut…
Continue Reading Why wireless carriers are able to give out iPhone 14s
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business The unveiling of the latest iPhone 14 lineup earlier this week has already spurred a flurry of new promotions…
Continue Reading Russia hits power stations after Ukraine counteroffensive
By KARL RITTER and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia attacked power stations and other infrastructure Sunday, causing…
Continue Reading Ukraine pushes big counteroffensive as war marks 200 days
By The Associated Press As the war in Ukraine marked 200 days on Sunday, the country has reclaimed broad swaths of the south and east in a…
Continue Reading Swedish conservatives close to election win amid crime fears
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Near final results in Sweden’s election Sunday show that a bloc of right-wing parties was…
Continue Reading China legislator criticizes sanctions on visit to Russia
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say the country’s top legislator decried sanctions against Russia during a recent visit to the country.…
Continue Reading Last reactor at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant stopped
By KARL RITTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Europe’s largest nuclear plant has been reconnected to Ukraine’s electricity grid,…
Continue Reading China quarantines college students under strict COVID policy
BEIJING (AP) — Almost 500 students at China’s premier college for broadcast journalists have been sent to a quarantine center after a handful…
Continue Reading Visa, Mastercard, AmEx to start categorizing gun shop sales
By KEN SWEET Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Payment processor Visa Inc. said Saturday that it plans to start separately categorizing sales at gun…
Continue Reading Aer Lingus cancels all flights from Dublin Airport due to IT breakdown
By Peter Taggart and Ramishah Maruf, CNN Aer Lingus canceled all flights scheduled to depart from its Dublin Airport hub that were bound for European…
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Global standards body approves new merchant code for gun sellers
Reuters An international standards body has approved creation of a merchant code for gun retailers, a representative said on Friday, following…
Continue Reading Indiana Jones, Black Panther take spotlight at Disney expo
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — An emotional Harrison Ford appeared along with a new trailer for the fifth Indiana…
Continue Reading Marsha Hunt, ’40s star and blacklist victim, dies at 104
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — Marsha Hunt, one of the last surviving actors from Hollywood’s so-called Golden Age of the 1930s and…
Continue Reading Helicopter crash kills 3 in Kabul during training session
By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban’s defense ministry says at least three crew members were killed when the…
Continue Reading Coastal storm cools California heat wave, dampens wildfire
By AMY TAXIN Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Southern California welcomed cooler temperatures and spotty rain Saturday as a…
Continue Reading Aer Lingus cancels Dublin-origin flights, cites IT outage
LONDON (AP) — The Irish carrier Aer Lingus says a major IT outage forced it to cancel all Dublin-originating flights to European and United Kingdom…
Continue Reading UAW workers go on strike at Stellantis plant in Indiana
DETROIT (AP) — United Auto Workers union members have gone on strike at the Stellantis casting plant in Indiana. They cite health and safety…
Continue Reading Guaranteed jobs: Mortuary schools see jump in enrollment amid funeral industry worker shortage
By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business As American industries struggle to fill plentiful job vacancies in a tight labor market, there’s at least one…
Continue Reading US announces $40 million agricultural aid to Sri Lanka
By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The United States has announced $40 million in aid to buy fertilizer and other key…
Continue Reading Advocates make push for Montreal-to-Boston passenger rail
By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Rail advocates are dusting off a proposal for passenger train service between Montreal and…
Continue Reading Why your car’s speedometer goes up to 160 mph (even when your car can’t)
By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Apple recently revealed a new version of its CarPlay system for vehicles, which include gauges like speedometers. But…
Continue Reading Why CVS and Walmart still print photos
By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Many aspects of drug stores and supermarkets feel like they’re of another era. But perhaps the most retro…
Continue Reading Small nuke reactors emerge as energy option, but risks loom
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A global search for alternative sources to Russian energy during the war in Ukraine…
Continue Reading Proenza Schouler turns on the waterworks at NY Fashion Week
By JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In a stunning Beaux-Arts building that housed a bank in the early 20th century, Proenza Schouler…
Continue Reading Queen Elizabeth is featured on several currencies. Now what?
By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has been depicted on British banknotes and coins for decades. Her portrait also…
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