World

Pelosi starts Asian tour with speculation over Taiwan visit

Published on Mon, 08/01/2022 - 12:00am
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held talks with officials in Singapore on Monday at the start of her Asian tour, as questions swirled over a possible stop in Taiwan that has fueled tension with Beijing.

Zelenskyy visits port as Ukraine prepares to ship grain

Published on Fri, 07/29/2022 - 12:00am
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ODESA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited a Black Sea port Friday as crews prepared terminals to export grain trapped by Russia’s five-month-old war, work that was inching forward a week after a deal was struck to allow critical food supplies to flow to millions of impoverished people facing hunger worldwide.

A richer, stronger China warns Pelosi not to visit Taiwan

Published on Thu, 07/28/2022 - 12:00am
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BEIJING (AP) — Beijing grumbled but swallowed its irritation in 1997 when then-Speaker Newt Gingrich of the U.S. House of Representatives visited Taiwan, the island democracy claimed by the mainland’s ruling Communist Party as its own territory.

New studies bolster theory coronavirus emerged from the wild

Published on Wed, 07/27/2022 - 12:00am
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Two new studies provide more evidence that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan, China market where live animals were sold – further bolstering the theory that the virus emerged in the wild rather than escaping from a Chinese lab.

US offers Russia deal for Griner, Whelan

Published on Wed, 07/27/2022 - 12:00am
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has offered a deal to Russia aimed at bringing home WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday. In a sharp reversal of previous policy, Blinken also said he expects to speak with his Kremlin counterpart for the first time since before Russia invaded Ukraine.

Rocket system enables Ukraine to pummel key bridge

Published on Wed, 07/27/2022 - 12:00am
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian troops used American-supplied precision rocket launchers to knock out a strategic bridge used by Russia to supply its forces in southern Ukraine’s occupied Kherson region, officials said Wednesday.

Russia to drop out of International Space Station

Published on Tue, 07/26/2022 - 12:00am
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia will pull out of the International Space Station after 2024 and focus on building its own orbiting outpost, the country’s new space chief said Tuesday amid high tensions between Moscow and the West over the fighting in Ukraine.

Russia says it wants to end Ukraine’s ‘unacceptable regime’

Published on Mon, 07/25/2022 - 12:00am
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s top diplomat said Moscow’s overarching goal in Ukraine is to free its people from its “unacceptable regime,” expressing the Kremlin’s war aims in some of the bluntest terms yet as its forces pummel the country with artillery barrages and airstrikes.

‘Beacon of hope’: Ukraine, Russia sign grain export deal

Published on Fri, 07/22/2022 - 12:00am
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Russia and Ukraine signed separate agreements Friday with Turkey and the United Nations clearing the way for exporting millions of tons of desperately needed Ukrainian grain — as well as Russian grain and fertilizer — ending a wartime standoff that had threatened food security around the globe.

Rio de Janeiro police conduct deadly raid in Alemao favelas

Published on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 12:00am
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Multiple deaths were reported during a police raid Thursday in Rio de Janeiro’s largest complex of favelas, or low-income communities, but the exact toll remained unclear.