Month: February 2023

BANGKOK (AP) — The campaign for this year’s general election in Thailand has not yet officially begun, but aspirants for the prime minister’s…

PARIS (AP) — Air India is placing orders for 470 Boeing and Airbus aircraft, underlining the surging demand for air travel fueled by the…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has expressed support for Iran during a visit by its president as Tehran tries to expand relations with…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An appeals court has prohibited the Netherlands’ military police from using racial…

BEIJING (AP) — Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says it will shoot down any suspected Chinese military object coming close to its shores but has yet…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s  finance minister says that his ultranationalist party would push to legalize all wildcat settlement outposts in…

By JOCELYN GECKER AP Education Writer LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Under the fluorescent lights of a fifth grade classroom in Lexington, Kentucky, Donnie…

By BARBARA MARQUAND of NerdWallet It’s been a bumpy ride for mortgage companies lately. Some lenders have gone out of business, merged with other…

By MUIR AHMED and RIAZ KHAN Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Cash-strapped Pakistan sharply increased taxes on natural gas to comply with a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Shoichiro Toyoda, who as a son of the company’s founder oversaw Toyota’s expansion into…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is playing down the importance of Finland and Sweden joining…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Tuesday angrily rejected the Moldovan president’s claims about an alleged plot by Moscow to overthrow her government…