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Biden's White House is taking on corporate mergers, landlord junk fees and food prices 07/19/2023 04:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed new guidelines for corporate mergers, took steps to disclose the junk fees charged by landlords and launched a crackdown on price-gouging in the food industry. The announcements were discussed as part of President Joe Biden's meeting A feline virus mutation in Cyprus caused far fewer cat deaths than claimed, veterinary leader says 07/19/2023 04:04pm • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The head of the Cyprus veterinarians association on Wednesday dismissed as greatly exaggerated the claims that a local mutation of a feline virus has killed as many as 300,000 cats on the small Mediterranean island. The director of the Pancyprian Veterinary Association, Nekt BBC staff in Cairo conclude 3-day strike for equal pay but threaten more collective action 07/19/2023 01:30pm • CAIRO (AP) — BBC staff in Cairo on Wednesday concluded their three-day strike for equal pay with colleagues across the Middle East but threatened future collective action if their demands are not met. During a news conference outside the BBC’s office in Cairo, Khaled el-Balshy, the spokesperson UK homeowners get some respite as inflation falls by more than anticipated to a 15-month low 07/19/2023 12:52pm • LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the U.K. has fallen by more than anticipated to a 15-month low, official figures showed Wednesday, a development that offered struggling households hope that interest rates won't rise as much as feared over the coming months. The Office for National Statistics said that UK’s governing Conservatives face a reckoning with voters in 3 special elections 07/19/2023 04:48am • LONDON (AP) — Bad things may come in threes for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, whose Conservative Party faces a trio of unwanted verdicts from voters this week. The U.K. is holding three special elections for House of Commons seats on Thursday that will let a broad cross-section of voters — UN agency slashes cash aid to Syrian refugees in Jordan, raising the alarm on its funding crunch 07/18/2023 11:00pm • BEIRUT (AP) — The United Nations food agency said Tuesday it will reduce monthly cash aid for 120,000 Syrian refugees living in two camps in Jordan because of what it described as an “unprecedented funding crisis.” Jordan is a country of 11 million people and hosts some 1.3 million refugees f US soldier who fled to North Korea had served 2 months in South Korea prison on assault charge 07/18/2023 06:21pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An American soldier who had served nearly two months in a South Korean prison, fled across the heavily armed border into North Korea, U.S. officials said Tuesday, becoming the first American detained in the North in nearly five years. Private 2nd Class Travis King had bee Representative of striking BBC Cairo staff accuses broadcaster of 'gross discrimination' 07/18/2023 12:14pm • CAIRO (AP) — A representative of BBC staff in Cairo on a three-day strike for equal pay with colleagues across the Middle East accused the broadcaster of “gross discrimination” Tuesday. The North African country is in the midst of spiraling economic crises, with inflation running at a record h Quick grants from tech billionaires aim to speed up science research. But not all scientists approve 07/18/2023 11:03am • In March 2020, an experiment in science philanthropy was hatched in the span of a five-minute call. Patrick Collison, the now 34-year-old billionaire CEO of the online payments company Stripe, and economist Tyler Cowen were chewing over a shared concern: Scientific progress seemed to be slowing down Today in History: July 18, Nelson Mandela is born 07/18/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Tuesday, July 18, the 199th day of 2023. There are 166 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 18, 1969, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., left a party on Chappaquiddick (chap-uh-KWIH’-dihk) Island near Martha’s Vineyard with Mary Jo Kopechne (k Florida family accused of selling fake COVID-19 cure through online church goes on trial in Miami 07/17/2023 07:37pm • MIAMI (AP) — A Florida family accused of selling a toxic industrial bleach as a fake COVID-19 cure through their online church is on trial this week in Miami. Mark Grenon, 65, and his sons, 37-year-old Jonathan, 35-year-old Joseph and 29-year-old Jordan, are all charged with conspiring to defra Cairo's BBC staff begin a three-day strike, calling for equal pay with other Mideast colleagues 07/17/2023 01:59pm • CAIRO (AP) — BBC’s staff in Cairo went on a three-day strike Monday to demand equal pay with other colleagues in the Middle East as Egypt’s economic crisis deepens further. According to Khaled el-Balshy, the strikers’ spokesperson and head of Egypt’s journalism union, the 75 staff members Thousands of Ukraine civilians are being held in Russian prisons. Russia plans to build many more 07/17/2023 12:10pm • ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian civilians woke long before dawn in the bitter cold, lined up for the single toilet and were loaded at gunpoint into the livestock trailer. They spent the next 12 hours or more digging trenches on the front lines for Russian soldiers. Many were forced to w On the picket lines with Hollywood's actors and writers, from LA to New York 07/15/2023 11:57am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's a “Strike Girl Summer.” So read a picket sign as the sidewalks of Hollywood and midtown Manhattan teemed with actors on Day 1 of their strike, protesting alongside the writers who have been at it since May. Together, the two guilds have ground the entertainment in Bargain-hunting Uruguayans are flocking to Argentina as its peso slides. Back home, shops struggle 07/15/2023 12:08am • GUALEGUAYCHÚ, Argentina (AP) — On a recent cross-border shopping trip, four friends from Fray Bentos, Uruguay, visited the nearby Argentine city of Gualeguaychu, where they could afford to live lavishly and snap up eye-popping bargains. Thanks to a huge disparity in the two South American countri