TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mostly higher Tuesday after a rally on Wall Street that regained some of the losses from the market’s worst week in nearly a year and a half. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 rose nearly 0.5% in morning trading to 36,384.73. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.6% to 8,033.10, while South
DILI, East Timor (AP) — Tens of thousands of East Timorese streamed Tuesday toward a seaside park for Pope Francis’ big Mass , held on the same field where St. John Paul II celebrated an historic liturgy during East Timor’s fight for independence from Indonesian rule. The Tacitolu park just outside Dili is said to
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — East Timor is at an energy development crossroads. While the small Southeast Asian nation — and one of the world’s youngest countries — has made international and domestic pledges to reduce its carbon footprint through untapped solar and other renewable energy potential, it faces a looming economic crisis as the gas
NEW YORK (AP) — Jailed ex-movie mogul Harvey Weinstein underwent emergency heart surgery at a New York City hospital on Monday, his representatives said. Weinstein, 72, was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan from the Rikers Island jail complex late Sunday “due to severe medical conditions,” his publicist Juda Engelmayer and prison consultant Craig Rothfeld
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani police arrested Monday several top leaders from former imprisoned Prime Minister Imran Khan’s opposition party, a day after some people clashed with the police a mile from a protest calling for his release . Among the detainees, accused of inciting violence, was the president of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, Gohar Khan
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado tried to reassure supporters Monday that her coalition still hopes to gain control of the presidency despite the departure into exile of their candidate Edmundo González Urrutia . Machado’s group maintains that it has evidence that González won the July 28 presidential election by a
TORONTO (AP) — The day after the premiere of their film “Nightbitch,” Amy Adams and Marielle Heller are sitting in a Toronto restaurant reflecting on all that went into, as Heller puts it, “birthing” a movie that captures some of the truest, rawest but seldom Instagrammed things about early motherhood. Their film, which writer-director Heller
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Former employees of the company that owned an experimental submersible that imploded on its way to the wreck of the Titanic are scheduled to testify before a Coast Guard investigatory board at an upcoming hearing. The Titan submersible imploded in the North Atlantic in June 2023, killing all five people on
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Edward B. Johnson, who as a Central Intelligence Agency officer traveled into Iran with a colleague to rescue six American diplomats who fled the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran, has died, the CIA confirmed on Monday. He was 81. Johnson’s identity for decades had been hidden from the
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Dozens of inmates escaped from a maximum security prison outside Liberia’s capital over the weekend, authorities said Monday. The 47 inmates were able to escape because of a breach in the prison security system, the Justice Ministry said in a statement. The prison is in Kakata, a town 55 kilometers (34
