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Indonesia says China has pledged $21B in new investment to strengthen ties 09/08/2023 09:58am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Visiting Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Friday pledged $21.7 billion in new Chinese investment in Indonesia to strengthen the countries' economic and political ties, an official said. Li arrived in Jakarta on Tuesday to attend the three-day summit of the Association of South Rail operator fined 6.7 million pounds in Scottish train crash that killed 3 09/08/2023 09:23am • LONDON (AP) — A British rail operator was fined 6.7 million pounds ($8.4 million) Friday after pleading guilty to safety failures that led to a derailment that killed three people and injured six others in Scotland three years ago. Network Rail was punished after admitting in High Court in Aberdee Puerto Rico's public schools clamor for air conditioning to get relief from record-breaking heat 09/08/2023 08:37am • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Public school teacher Ángel Muñiz grabbed a thermometer and thrust it into the camera as someone recorded him inside his classroom this week. “It is about 99 degrees (37 C),” he said in a video posted on social media as seven fans whirred noisily around him. It w Residents and fishermen file a lawsuit demanding a halt to the release of Fukushima wastewater 09/08/2023 07:59am • TOKYO (AP) — Fishermen and residents of Fukushima and five other prefectures along Japan’s northeastern coast filed a lawsuit Friday demanding a halt to the ongoing release of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. In the lawsuit filed with Fukushim 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 Finland's center-right government survives no-confidence vote over 2 right-wing ministers 09/08/2023 07:15am • HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s center-right government that includes nationalist and anti-immigration lawmakers survived a no-confidence motion from three opposition parties on Friday over two ministers from the right-wing populist Finns Party at the center of a racism scandal that has rocked the Nor South Korea's Yoon meets Indonesian leader to deepen economic, defense ties 09/08/2023 07:13am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol met with his Indonesian counterpart, Joko Widodo, on Friday seeking to deepen economic ties and defense cooperation at a time of heightened global geopolitical tensions. Yoon has been in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, since Tuesday at 2 dead in Hong Kong amid extreme rain and flash floods that also struck southern China 09/08/2023 06:38am • HONG KONG (AP) — Heavy rain in Hong Kong and southern China overnight flooded city streets and some subway stations, with hundreds evacuated and two deaths reported in Hong Kong. Hong Kong authorities said during a joint news conference Friday that the extreme weather was expected to last until at Proximity of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Danube ports stirs fear in NATO member Romania 09/08/2023 06:36am • BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The discovery of drone debris on Romanian territory this week has left some local residents fearing that the war in neighboring Ukraine could spread into their country, as Russian forces bombard Ukrainian ports just across the Danube River from NATO-member Romania. Moscow Solo trips or 'gramping?' How older adults travel is changing 09/08/2023 06:17am • Many tour companies are creating experiences for the solo traveler. (Courtesy Road Scholar/Alyssa Bichunsky) This summer, WTOP took you on a tour and explored how adults 50 and older are spending their travels. This fall, Sally Matts is going to Spain. Since her retirement as a human resource Japan's Kishida says China seafood ban contrasts with wide support for Fukushima water release 09/08/2023 01:06am • TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s prime minister said that China’s blanket ban on Japanese seafood in reaction to the release of treated radioactive water from a tsunami-ravaged nuclear power plant contrasts starkly with broad understanding shown by many other members of the international community. The Fu President Biden declares 3 Georgia counties are eligible for disaster aid after Hurricane Idalia 09/07/2023 11:18pm • ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday approved a disaster declaration for three Georgia counties following Hurricane Idalia's sprint across southern and coastal Georgia on Aug. 30. The storm made landfall with 125 mph (201 kph) winds in Florida’s remote Big Bend region before moving nor Texas heat brings the state's power grid closest it has been to outages since 2021 winter storm 09/07/2023 10:19pm • HOUSTON (AP) — Texas’ power grid manager on Thursday again asked residents to cut their electricity use as the state endures another stretch of sizzling summer heat. The request carried fresh urgency, coming the day after the system was pushed to the brink of outages for the first time since a d New Mexico governor seeks federal agents to combat gun violence in Albuquerque 09/07/2023 09:40pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The governor of New Mexico is asking the U.S. Justice Department to deploy more federal agents to the state in the aftermath of the shooting death of an 11-year-old boy outside a minor league baseball stadium. New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Thursday sent a letter U Slave descendants on Georgia island fighting to keep protections that helped them keep their land 09/07/2023 09:34pm • DARIEN, Ga. (AP) — Descendants of enslaved people who populate a tiny island community are once again fighting their local government, this time over a proposal to eliminate protections that for decades helped shield the Gullah-Geechee residents from high taxes and pressure to sell their land to d