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Greece hopes for investment boost after key credit rating upgrade 09/08/2023 06:16pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A major international agency on Friday upgraded Greece’s credit rating to investment grade, a move that is expected to boost investor confidence in the formerly bailout-dependent country. Despite a series of previous upgrades, Greece had until now failed to regain the inves UN report on Ecuador links crime with poverty, faults government for not ending bonded labor 09/08/2023 05:35pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — A U.N. envoy urged Ecuador's leaders Friday to boost enforcement of labor laws and end popular fuel subsidies as part of key policy changes needed alongside their continuing efforts to combat the drug-related crime that has undermined the country's peaceful image. The report iss Child victims are the forgotten voices of Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship from 1973 to 1990 09/08/2023 04:03pm • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Yelena Monroy was 3 years old when she was imprisoned for more than a year along with her younger sister and her mother, a socialist activist targeted by the regime of Gen. Augusto Pinochet after he came to power in Chile in a military coup in September 1973. “We were scar Trial for ex-Baltimore prosecutor is moved outside the city due to potential juror bias, judge says 09/08/2023 03:56pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s former top prosecutor, who was charged last year with perjury and mortgage fraud, will be tried outside the city because potential jurors may have been biased by extensive media coverage of the case, a federal judge ruled Friday. Over two terms as Baltimore state’s The IRS plans to crack down on 1,600 millionaires to collect millions of dollars in back taxes 09/08/2023 02:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS announced on Friday it is launching an effort to aggressively pursue 1,600 millionaires and 75 large business partnerships that owe hundreds of millions of dollars in past due taxes. IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel said that with a boost in federal funding and the help of Kroger and Albertsons sell hundreds of stores in a bid to clear merger of the 2 largest US groceries 09/08/2023 11:03am • Kroger and Albertsons will sell more than 400 stores and other assets for about $1.9 billion, seeking to clear a path for a merger with antitrust regulators reviewing a deal that would unify two of the nation's largest grocery chains. The 413 stores, along with QFC, Mariano’s and Carrs brand name Sri Lanka's ruling coalition defeats a no-confidence motion against the health minister 09/08/2023 09:48am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition on Friday defeated a no-confidence motion against the country's health minister who has been accused of allegedly failing to secure enough essential drugs and laboratory equipment that some say resulted in preventable deaths in hospitals. T India seeks a greater voice for the developing world at G20 but the Ukraine war may overshadow talks 09/08/2023 07:41am • NEW DELHI (AP) — It’s never been easy for the leaders of the world’s largest economies to find common ground, but Russia’s war on Ukraine has made it even harder for the Group of 20 meeting to reach meaningful agreements this year. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, this year’s host, has Biden to use G20 summit and Vietnam visit to highlight US as trustworthy alternative to China 09/07/2023 09:15pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden wants to show the world at the Group of 20 summit in India and during a stop in Vietnam that the United States and its like-minded allies are better economic and security partners than China. White House officials said Biden, who departed Thursday evening for 9 of the Best Cheap Stocks to Buy Under $5 09/07/2023 08:00pm • As of the first week of September 2023, there were 1,854 stocks listed on the major American exchanges that were trading for $5 per share or less. It might seem daunting trying to sift through such a large pile of low-priced stocks to find the proverbial needle in the haystack. Most firms that end u How Much Money to Have Saved for Retirement by Age 40 09/07/2023 08:00pm • Once you hit the big 4-0, the march to retirement becomes more real -- and more urgent. Unfortunately, most Americans don't have a lot of cash saved for their golden years after about 20 years in the workforce. In fact, the average retirement account balance for Americans between ages 35 and 44 in 2 India's rising geopolitical clout will be tested as it hosts the G20 summit 09/07/2023 10:23am • NEW DELHI (AP) — Ahead of India’s hosting of the G20 summit of leading economies, its prime minister invited 125 mostly developing countries to a virtual meeting in January to signal New Delhi’s intention to be their champion on the world stage. As the leaders logged onto Zoom, Prime Minister Everyone's talking about the Global South. But what is it? 09/07/2023 12:19am • NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says his country is “becoming the voice of the Global South,” and that at the upcoming Group of 20 meetings being held in New Delhi, that voice will be heard. At the August summit of the BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and So USF is building a $340M on-campus football stadium despite concerns academics are being left behind 09/07/2023 12:14am • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — When the University of South Florida kicked off its first football season in 1997, the program's offices were headquartered in a glorified trailer on campus known as the “Ponderosa.” Back then, the Bulls played their games miles away in Tampa Stadium, affectionately called t Russian missile strike on Ukrainian market kills 17 as Blinken announces new $1B aid package 09/06/2023 10:16pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian missile tore through an outdoor market in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, killing 17 people and wounding dozens, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to the country with more than $1 billion in new American funding for Ukraine, including military and huma