HONG KONG (AP) — China’s exports for May beat analyst expectations despite trade tensions, though imports shrank, according to customs data released Friday. Exports jumped 7.6% in May from the same time last year to $302.35 billion, rising at the fastest pace since April 2023. Imports however rose by 1.8% to $219.73 billion, missing estimates
Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown said all the right things after the Boston Celtics fell in the NBA Finals two years ago. They said losing that series to the Golden State Warriors was going to be part of their journey. A learning experience. Fuel for the future. They won’t be able to say those things
WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to address a joint meeting of Congress on July 24, according to a person familiar with the matter. Congressional leaders last week formally invited Netanyahu to come speak, delivering the most recent show of wartime support for the longtime ally despite mounting political divisions over
The enactment in Arromanches-les-Bains in Normandy marked the exact time of British troops’ D-Day landings 80 years ago. “To hear the pipes, it’s moral and it keeps the troops happy,” Pipe Major Trevor Macey-Lillie said, after landing near the Mulberry harbors, the artificial piers designed to support the war shipments. (AP video shot by Bela
The Philippines is planning one of world’s biggest buildouts of natural gas infrastructure, with almost two dozen power plants announced and ambitions to become a hub for liquified natural gas for the entire Asia-Pacific region. The Philippines is planning one of world’s biggest buildouts of natural gas infrastructure, with almost two dozen power plants announced
As rising sea levels threaten their island home off the coast of Panana, the Guna Indigenous people are being evacuated by their government. (5 June 2024) (AP/Abraham Terán and Matías Delacroix) As rising sea levels threaten their island home off the coast of Panana, the Guna Indigenous people are being evacuated by their government. (5
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan lawyer who worked closely with organizations representing farmworkers and Indigenous groups was killed in an apparent ambush, human rights organizations said Thursday. José Domingo was with two members of the United Farmworkers Committee when they were shot by a group of men Wednesday south of the capital, said Daniel
MILAN (AP) — Amanda Knox told Italian TV on Thursday that she was surprised by a Florence appeals court’s decision to find her guilty of slander in light of a European court ruling that police who took her confession had violated her human rights. “I will fight for the truth,’’ Knox told Sky TG24 in
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing’s new capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, delayed by last-minute thruster trouble that almost derailed the docking for this first test flight with astronauts . The 260-mile-high (420-kilometer-high) linkup over the Indian Ocean culminated more than a day of continuing drama for Boeing’s astronaut flight debut
The highly publicized trial of a woman accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowbank finished its sixth week on Thursday. John O’Keefe, 46, died in the Boston suburb of Canton in the early hours of Jan. 29, 2022. Prosecutors say Karen Read, 44
