BEIJING (AP) — China’s sharp-tongued foreign minister, Qin Gang, was something of an avatar for nationalist Communist Party leader and President Xi Jinping, warning of “conflict and confrontation” with the U.S., the stakes of which could be the “future of humanity.” Now, Qin has been dismissed from office in the biggest political tumult to strike
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms posted stronger-than-expected results for the second quarter on Wednesday, buoyed by a rebound in online advertising after a post-pandemic slump.The Menlo Park, California-based company earned $7.79 billion, or $2.98 per share, in the April-June period. That’s up 16% from $6.69 billion, or $2.46 per share, in the same period a
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to discuss military issues and the regional security environment, state media said Thursday as the country celebrated the 70th anniversary of an armistice that halted fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War.The North’s official Korean Central News Agency
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Twenty-two attorneys general urged a federal court Wednesday to reject a proposed $10.3 billion settlement over contamination of U.S. public drinking water systems with potentially dangerous chemicals, saying it lets manufacturer 3M Co. off too easily.The deal announced in June doesn’t give individual water suppliers enough time to determine how
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate Wednesday for the 11th time in 17 months as part of its ongoing drive to curb inflation. But it provided little guidance about when — or whether — it might hike rates again.Wednesday’s move raised the Fed’s benchmark short-term rate from roughly 5.1% to
A system of ocean currents that transports heat northward across the North Atlantic could collapse by mid-century, according to a new study, and scientists have said before that such a collapse could cause catastrophic sea-level rise and extreme weather across the globe.In recent decades, researchers have both raised and downplayed the specter of Atlantic current
Politika | 26.07.2023 | access_time 21:05 Glasanjem o 30 tačaka dnevnog reda danas je završena četvrta vanredna sednica Skupštine Srbije.Poslanici su usvojili dopune Zakona o ozakonjenju objekata, kojim se dozvoljava priključenje nezakonito izgrađenih objekata na struju, gas, grejanje, vodovod i kanalizaciju, s tim što se dozvola ne odnosi na investititore, već samo na građane koji
LONDON (AP) — Sinéad O’Connor, the gifted Irish singer-songwriter who became a superstar in her mid-20s and was known as much for her private struggles and provocative actions as for her fierce and expressive music, has died at 56.“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad. Her family and
Politika | 26.07.2023 | access_time 18:15 FOTO: BETA/European Council/Frederic Sierakowski Priština i Beograd su veoma udaljeni od koraka ka smanjenju napetosti, organizovanja novih izbora, sprovođenja Sporazuma iz Ohrida, primene deklaracije o nestalim licima i rešenja za trgovinu, izjavio je agenciji Beta u Briselu jedan zvaničnik Evropske komisije (EK). To su pokazali nedavni razgovori koje je
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It was once Latin America’s largest landfill. Now, a decade after Rio de Janeiro shut it down and redoubled efforts to recover the surrounding expanse of highly polluted swamp, crabs, snails, fish and birds are once again populating the mangrove forest.“If we didn’t say this used to be a landfill
