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FILE - Secretary of State Anthony Blinken speaks during a news conference in Berlin, Germany, June 24, 2022. The Group of 20 foreign ministers meeting in Indonesia this week may well exacerbate divides over Russia's war in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will be there, marking the first time that he and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be in the same room since January. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

G-20 meeting may lead to wider divisions over war in Ukraine

Foreign ministers from the world’s largest nations are looking to address the war in Ukraine and its impact on energy and food security when they meet this week. Yet instead of providing unity, the … more

By MATTHEW LEE | 7/6/22

Bicycles given to be repaired are seen outside a workshop amid fuel shortage in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, July 5, 2022. Sri Lanka's ongoing negotiations with the International Monetary Fund have been complex and difficult than the instances before because it has entered talks as a bankrupt nation, the country's prime minister said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Cricket is a welcome distraction for Sri Lankans in crisis

Cricket has come as a welcome distraction for Sri Lankans having to spend days in long queues to buy everyday items such as fuel and cooking gas. The cricket-crazed South Asian island nation is … more

By KRISHAN FRANCIS | 7/5/22

FILE - An electronic cigarette from Juul Labs is seen on on Feb. 25, 2020, in Pembroke Pines, Fla. Juul has asked a federal court, Friday, June 24, 2022, to block a government order to stop selling its electronic cigarettes. Federal health officials on Thursday, June 23, ordered Juul to pull its electronic cigarettes from the U.S. market, the latest blow to the embattled company widely blamed for sparking a national surge in teen vaping. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

FDA temporarily suspends order banning Juul cigarettes

The Food and Drug Administration has issued an administrative stay on the order it issued last month for vaping company Juul to pull its electronic cigarettes from the market. The agency says the … more

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FILE - A truck arrives to pick up a shipping container near vessels moored at Maersk APM Terminals Pacific at the Port of Los Angeles, on Nov. 30, 2021. A contract between shipping companies and 22,000 West Coast dockworkers expired on Friday, July 1, 2022, but both sides continue to talk and said they want to avoid a strike. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

West Coast dockworkers still talking after contract expires

A contract between shipping companies and 22,000 West Coast dockworkers has expired. But both sides continue to talk and said they want to avoid a strike that could savage an economy already stressed … more

By ROBERT JABLON | 7/5/22

President Joe Biden speaks on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, July 4, 2022, in Washington. With his party struggling to connect with working class voters, President Joe Biden on Wednesday plans to use the backdrop of the Iron Workers Local 17 Training Center in Cleveland to tell workers his administration’s policies would shore up funding for roughly 200 multiemployer pensions. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden to Ohio, spotlighting rescued pensions for millions

President Joe Biden is taking a message of shoring up workers' pensions to Ohio, hoping to reinvigorate his political standing with blue-collar voters. The state has been trending strongly Republican … more

By JOSH BOAK | 7/5/22

FILE - Buffalo Bills defensive assistant Leslie Frazier catches a ball before an NFL football game against the Houston Texans, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021, in Orchard Park, N.Y. Leslie Frazier expected another opportunity to be a head coach in the NFL after a three-year-plus stint in Minnesota from 2010-13. Frazier, the Buffalo Bills’ 63-year-old defensive coordinator, is still waiting for that second chance while doing his best to help young coaches advance their careers. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus, File)

Bills coordinator Leslie Frazier helps young coaches advance

Leslie Frazier expected another opportunity to be a head coach in the NFL after a three-year-plus stint in Minnesota from 2010-13. Frazier, the Buffalo Bills’ 63-year-old defensive coordinator, is … more

By ROB MAADDI | 7/5/22

FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, center, Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer, right, and Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care speak together as they look at a CT scanner during a visit to the New Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Welwyn Garden City, England, on April 6, 2022. Two of Britain’s most senior Cabinet ministers have quit, a move that could spell the end of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s leadership after months of scandals. Treasury chief Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid resigned within minutes of each other. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File

Profiles of Sunak and Javid, who quit Johnson's Cabinet

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is facing a fresh crisis after two of his most senior Cabinet ministers resigned within minutes of each other. Treasury chief Rishi Sunak and … more

By SYLVIA HUI | 7/5/22

Rebecca Rogers, systems engineer, left, takes dimension measurements of the CAPSTONE spacecraft in April 2022, at Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc., in Irvine, Calif. NASA said Tuesday, July 5, that it has lost contact with a $32.7 million spacecraft headed to moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit, but agency engineers are hopeful they can fix the problem. (Dominic Hart/NASA via AP)

NASA: Contact lost with spacecraft on way to test moon orbit

NASA says contact has been lost with a spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit. The satellite was launched last week from New Zealand and on Monday left Earth's orbit, on its … more

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Models wear creations as part of Chanel's Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2022-2023 fashion collection presented Tuesday, July 5, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Chanel gets gently geometric in far-flung Paris couture

Birds tweeted -- not fashionistas -- the day Chanel brought its couture guests to the calm of the Bois de Boulogne forest. On Tuesday morning, bleary-eyed VIPs walked across tons of white sand … more

By THOMAS ADAMSON | 7/5/22

FILE - India's Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, left, and Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar address a press conference announcing new regulations for social media companies and digital streaming websites in New Delhi, India, Feb. 25, 2021. Twitter on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, challenged the Indian government in court over its recent orders to take down some content on the social media platform. The lawsuit is part of a growing confrontation between Twitter and New Delhi after the government passed the new set of sweeping regulations giving it more power to police online content. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Reports: Twitter challenges India order to block content

Media reports say Twitter has challenged the Indian government in court over its recent orders to take down some content on the social media platform. The Press Trust of India and the Bar and Bench … more

By SHEIKH SAALIQ | 7/5/22

A protester dressed in the national colors attends a protest in front of the government building in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Saturday, July 2, 2022. Tens of thousands of people have gathered late on Saturday in North Macedonia's capital Skopje to protest the latest French presidency proposal on solving bilateral disputes with Bulgaria that gave directions for small Balkan country to open membership talks with the European Union. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

EU urges N Macedonia to back proposed deal with Bulgaria

European Council President Charles Michel has urged North Macedonia to back a French-proposed compromise on ending a dispute with neighboring Bulgaria that’s blocking the country’s long-delayed … more

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French President Emmanuel Macron, right, and Israel's Prime Minister Yair Lapid wave Tuesday, July 5, 2022 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. It was the first overseas trip by Yair Lapid since he took office last week. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

Israel's Lapid meets Macron in Paris on first trip as PM

Israel’s caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Tuesday used his first trip abroad since taking office to urge world powers to step up pressure on Iran over its nuclear activities. He called the … more

By OLEG CETINIC and ILON BEN ZION | 7/5/22

FILE - An advertisement for Bitcoin cryptocurrency is displayed on a street in Hong Kong on Feb. 17, 2022. Cryptocurrencies have experienced their worst plunge since 2018. As prices drop, companies collapse and skepticism soars, fortunes and jobs are disappearing overnight, and investors’ feverish speculation has been replaced by icy calculation, in what industry leaders are referring to as a “crypto winter.” (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Bank of England: Crypto crashes show need for tougher rules

The Bank of England warns that recent cryptocurrency meltdowns that wiped out more then $2 trillion in value highlight the need for tougher financial regulations. Britain’s central bank said … more

By KELVIN CHAN | 7/5/22

Scott Miller, Ambassador of USA to Switzerland, holds his national statement during the Ukraine Recovery Conference URC, Tuesday, July 5, 2022 in Lugano, Switzerland. The URC is organised to initiate the political process for the recovery of Ukraine after the attack of Russia to its territory. (Alessandro della Valle/Keystone via AP)

US seeks focus on 'urgent' needs of Ukraine at Swiss meeting

A top U.S. diplomat urged allies of Ukraine to help the war-battered country meet its “immediate and urgent” needs, as scores of countries wrapped up a two-day conference aimed to help Ukraine … more

By JAMEY KEATEN | 7/5/22

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks during a media conference at the end of a NATO summit in Madrid, Spain on Thursday, June 30, 2022. North Atlantic Treaty Organization heads of state met for the final day of a NATO summit in Madrid on Thursday. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Spain boosts military spending to close gap with NATO goal

Spain is increasing military spending as it works toward meeting a NATO commitment by dedicating 2% of gross domestic product to defense. Spanish government Cabinet members on Tuesday approved a … more

By JOSEPH WILSON | 7/5/22

FILE - Sarah Burton, owner of Studio B Pilates + Barre leads a Zoom-based live dance conditioning class at her studio in Tyler, Texas, April 4, 2020. A new poll shows that many Americans don't expect to rely on the digital services that became commonplace during the pandemic after COVID-19 subsides. (Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph via AP)

Many won't rely on virtual options after COVID: AP-NORC poll

A new poll shows that many Americans don’t expect to rely on the digital services that became commonplace during the pandemic after COVID-19 subsides. That's even as many think it’s a good thing … more

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and R.J. RICO | 7/5/22

Chinese policemen patrol the bund area, Wednesday, June 1, 2022, in Shanghai. Hackers claim to have obtained a trove of data on 1 billion Chinese from a Shanghai police database in a leak that, if confirmed, could be one of the largest data breaches in history. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Alleged Chinese police database hack leaks data of 1 billion

Hackers claim to have obtained a trove of data on 1 billion Chinese from a Shanghai police database in a leak that, if confirmed, could be one of the largest data breaches in history. In a post on … more

ZEN SOO | 7/5/22

Exterior of the Packard Plant on Detroit's east side, Thursday, June 30, 2022. The factory built in the early 1900s turned out high-end cars into the 1950s. It was considered one of the city's automotive jewels, but now is among the nation's most notorious examples of urban blight. Parts of the 3.5 million-square-foot, 40-acre Packard plant complex will be demolished by the year's end. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Detroit targets old industry sites to improve neighborhoods

Mahalie Wilson lives in the shadow of Detroit's massive and vacant former Packard auto plant and says she has learned to just “deal with” her foreboding brick neighbor. But after years of … more

By COREY WILLIAMS | 7/5/22

Members of a pro-Kremlin youth organisation ride their cars with flags of Luhansk People Republic along Nevsky prospect, the central avenue of St. Petersburg as they celebrate full control over Luhansk Region, one of the two provinces in Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland, announced by Russian authorities, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, July 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Ukraine town warned to evacuate ahead of Russian assault

A day after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared victory in seizing the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the mayor of a city that could be next in Moscow’s firing line warned residents to … more

By FRANCESCA EBEL | 7/5/22

FILE - SAS planes are grounded at Oslo Gardermoen airport during pilots strikes, in Oslo, Friday, April 26, 2019. SAS has filed for bankruptcy in the United States, warning the announcement of a strike by 1,000 pilots a day earlier had put the future of the carrier at risk which added to the travel chaos across Europe as the summer vacation period begins. The group said Tuesday, July 5, 2022 it had “voluntarily filed for chapter 11 in the U.S.," and said its operations and flight schedule will be unaffected. (Ole Berg-Rusten/NTB Scanpix via AP, File)

Carrier SAS files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in US

Scandinavian Airlines has filed for bankruptcy in the United States, warning the announcement of a strike by 1,000 pilots a day earlier had put the future of the carrier at risk. The group said … more

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