US and World News

SHANGHAI -Parts of eastern China are running fresh rounds of mass COVID-19 testing, as the country faces new waves of infections while recovering from impact of the spring outbreaks that …

TOKYO – Japan’s ruling coalition is headed for victory in a July 10 upper house election, with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s ruling party likely to extend the number of seats …

By Tom Balmforth and Max Hunder KYIV -Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday acknowledged Kyiv’s forces had withdrawn from Lysychansk in the eastern Donbas region after a grinding Russian assault, …

By Dan Williams and Ali Sawafta JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH, West Bank -Israel said on Sunday it would test a bullet that killed a Palestinian-American journalist to determine whether one of its soldiers …

By Jason Lange (Reuters) -The head of the Uvalde, Texas, school police force quit his City Council seat amid criticism over his response to a mass shooting at an elementary …

(Reuters) -The congressional panel investigating last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters could make multiple referrals to the Justice Department seeking criminal charges against the former …

CAIRO -Two women were killed in shark attacks in Egypt’s Red Sea, south of the city of Hurghada, the Egyptian Ministry of Environment said on Sunday. Two sources told Reuters …

By Olzhas Auyezov and Mark Trevelyan ALMATY -Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said on Sunday there were casualties among civilians and law enforcement officers after rare protests in the Central Asian …

(This July 2 story corrects spelling of Roderick in paragraph) By Jason Lange and Jonathan Landay (Reuters) – Police killed Jayland Walker, a Black man in Ohio, by shooting him …

By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO – Health authorities across Canada have cut the hours of hospital emergency departments and urgent care clinics in recent weeks, a move that in some …

ANDERSON: Disney Overdosed On Wokeness. You’d Think They’d Know Better By Now Brad Anderson on July 2, 2022 Disney’s mouse is staying in his house. In a surprise move, Disney’s …

HAMMER: Here’s How States Can Help Conservatives Secure Even More Legal Victories Josh Hammer on July 2, 2022 America is currently in the midst of a broader political realignment. The …

By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court’s top security officer has asked Maryland Governor Larry Hogan to enforce laws barring picketing outside the Maryland homes of high court …

By James Oliphant ST. CLAIR SHORES, Mich – The latest front in the U.S. war over abortion was waged last week during an idyllic summer evening on Michigan’s lakeshore. Outside …

By Sabine Siebold and Robin Emmott MADRID – NATO invited Sweden and Finland on Wednesday to join the military alliance in one of the biggest shifts in European security in …

By Jorge Otaola BUENOS AIRES -Argentina’s economy minister Martin Guzman, the architect of a recent major debt deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), resigned on Saturday as deep splits …

SEOUL – North Korea criticised the United States, South Korea and Japan’s recent agreement on strengthening military cooperation to be a means to materialise a U.S. plan for a military …

By Pavel Polityuk and Simon Lewis KYIV/KONSTYANTYNIVKA, Ukraine -Fighting intensified on Saturday for Lysychansk, Ukraine’s last bastion in the strategic eastern province of Luhansk, while blasts shook a southern city …

SAO PAULO – Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is leading in the polls for Brazil’s October presidential election, said on Saturday he will not tolerate threats against …

By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank -The Palestinian Authority has handed the bullet that killed prominent Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to U.S. authorities for forensic examination, a …

By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL – A Taliban-run gathering of thousands of male religious and ethnic leaders ended on Saturday by asking foreign governments to formally recognise their administration, but …

TRIPOLI -Libyan protesters will keep demonstrating until all the ruling elites quit power, they said on Saturday, after rallies in most main cities on Friday culminated in a crowd storming …

DUBAI -At least five people were killed and 49 injured by a magnitude 6.1 earthquake in southern Iran early on Saturday, state media reported, with the area also hit soon …

By Jeff Mason and Rami Ayyub WASHINGTON -President Joe Biden predicted on Friday that some U.S. states will try to arrest women for crossing state lines to get abortions after …