GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS, Ecuador (AP) — Warm morning light reflects from the remains of a natural rock arch near Darwin Island, one of the most remote islands in the Galapagos. In clear, deep blue water, thousands of creatures — fish, hammerhead sharks, marine iguanas — move in search of food. The 2021 collapse of Darwin’s Arch
Asian stocks started the week with gains ahead of central bank policy meetings in the United States and Japan, after a broad rally on Wall Street that capped a tumultuous week. U.S. futures and oil prices rose. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 index surged 2.5% to 38,587.87. The key focus in Asian markets this week
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s new Treasury chief is alleging that the previous government covered up the dire state of the nation’s finances, as she prepares to deliver a major speech to Parliament on Monday that is widely expected to lay the groundwork for higher taxes. In extracts of her speech released late Sunday, Rachel Reeves
TOKYO (AP) — Top diplomats from Japan, the U.S., Australia and India met Monday to discuss security concerns and joint support to reinforce maritime safety and cybersecurity in the Indo-Pacific region amid growing tensions with China. At the meeting hosted in Tokyo by Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Australian
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Osama Siblani’s phone won’t stop ringing. Just days after President Joe Biden withdrew his bid for reelection and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic presidential nomination, top officials from both major political parties have been asking the publisher of the Dearborn-based Arab American News if Harris can regain the
HOUSTON (AP) — Several days of events honoring the life of longtime U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas were set to begin Monday with the lawmaker lying in state in Houston’s city hall. President Joe Biden also was scheduled to come to Houston Monday evening to pay his respects to Jackson Lee, according to
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — More than 5,000 people isolated by flooding in northwest North Korea were rescued in airlifts and other evacuation work supervised by leader Kim Jong Un, state media reported Monday. Heavy rainfall on Saturday had caused a river on the North Korean-Chinese border to exceed a dangerous level and created “a
Venezuelans were voting in a presidential election whose outcome will either lead to a seismic shift in politics or extend by six more years the policies that caused the world’s worst peacetime economic collapse (AP video shot by Regina Garcia ) Venezuelans were voting in a presidential election whose outcome will either lead to a
Israel’s army ordered Palestinians on Sunday to evacuate areas of Bureij Refugee Camp and Shuhada neighborhood in Central Gaza and head for Muwasi, the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone situated in far south west of the war stricken enclave. (Production by Wafaa Shurafa) Israel’s army ordered Palestinians on Sunday to evacuate areas of Bureij Refugee Camp and
TEAHUPO’O, Tahiti (AP) — Contrasting reactions of jubilation and disappointment were seen on the faces of surfers coming ashore after their heats Sunday, as the elimination rounds commenced in the Paris Olympics surfing competition in Tahiti. “Today is the first real day of competition,” said Johanne Defay from France, who beat Australia’s Molly Picklum in
