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By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government says a Dubai government-owned ferry operator at the center of a bitter U.K.…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The Egyptian pound has slipped further against the dollar, after Egypt’s Central Bank raised its main…

WUZHOU, China (AP) — Add rain to the challenges facing Chinese investigators as they try to determine why a jetliner with 132 people aboard crashed…

NEW YORK (AP) — Russia has unleashed a harsh crackdown on dissent over the past year by imprisoning opposition leader Alexei Navalny and silencing…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer The humanitarian needs of more than 10 million displaced Ukrainians have quickly become staggering. Yet Mark…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Stocks have fallen in Asia following a retreat on Wall Street as crude oil prices rose sharply. Tokyo, Hong…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp. says a U.S. judge has allowed a probation period to end after the company was nearly…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s flagship airline says it has started selling tickets for direct…

By NG HAN GUAN and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press WUZHOU, China (AP) — Investigators have found what they believe to be the cockpit flight recorder…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government lifted a warning of potential blackouts for the Tokyo region as weather and…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand will remove many of its COVID-19 pandemic mandates over the next two…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press SACRAMENTO (AP) — Tax records show California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife earned nearly $1.5…

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Miami Beach city commissioners have voted to extend a curfew, a day after it was…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal safety inspectors say baby formula maker Abbott failed to maintain sanitary…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The Colorado college town of Boulder is marking the one-year anniversary of a supermarket…

SEATTLE (AP) — Baristas and other employees at a Seattle Starbucks have voted to unionize, the first such vote in the city where Starbucks…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Although not in the courtroom, Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes loomed over the…

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge in Ohio says he wants attorneys for investors in utility giant FirstEnergy Corp. to reveal who from the company…

BY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt says it will increase transit fees for vessels, including oil-laden tankers, passing through Suez…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press Federal funding has been approved to begin removing some of the hundreds of thousands of derelict lobster traps left…

The Associated Press Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Tuesday and oil prices eased as investors remained focused on the outlook for inflation.…