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EXPLAINER: Recession fears grow. But how high is the risk? 05/09/2022 01:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation is at a 40-year high. Stock prices are sinking. The Federal Reserve is making borrowing much costlier. And the economy actually shrank in the first three months of this year. Is the United States at risk of enduring another recession, just two years after emerging from World Bank grants Lebanon $150 million food security loan 05/09/2022 09:13am • BEIRUT (AP) — The World Bank approved a $150 million soft loan for food security in crisis-hit Lebanon to stabilize bread prices during the coming months, the economy minister said Monday. Amin Salam told reporters that the loan has a very low interest rate but the minister did not make the rate 11 Top Sector ETFs to Buy 05/08/2022 08:00pm • Stick with sector ETFs to play a specific corner of the market.In 1991, MSCI launched the Global Industry Classification Standard. This taxonomy segments the stock market into 11 distinct sectors: energy, materials, industrials, utilities, health care, financials, consumer discretionary, consumer st UN agency chief resigns after probe into its investments 05/08/2022 04:41pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres accepted the resignation Sunday of the head of a United Nations agency that was under investigation for questionable investments. Grete Faremo, a former Norwegian minister of justice and public security, had been undersecretary-general and e Chelsea being sold to Dodgers owners for sports record $3BN 05/07/2022 03:47pm • The forced sale of Chelsea is ending after attracting the highest price for a sports team of 2.5 billion pounds ($3.1 billion) from a consortium fronted by Los Angeles Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly. There are still potential stumbling blocks to the sale of Roman Abramovich’s asset, frozen by sanc Burnley's survival hopes damaged by losing to Villa in EPL 05/07/2022 12:41pm • BURNLEY, England (AP) — Burnley's relegation woes deepened after losing to Aston Villa 3-1 in the English Premier League on Saturday for the team's first defeat under interim manager Mike Jackson. Steven Gerrard's Villa did both Everton and Leeds a big favor by ripping Burnley apart. Emi Buendia m Diplomats concerned by state of emergency in Sri Lanka 05/07/2022 10:29am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Diplomats and rights groups expressed concern Saturday after Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a state of emergency and police used force against peaceful protests demanding his ouster over the nation’s worst economic crisis. Rajapaksa issued a decree Fri Marcos redux? Dictator's son may win Philippine presidency 05/07/2022 03:01am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Sara Duterte smile and chat of their love of burgers and mango shakes on the election trail in a carefree YouTube video before breaking into a short rap penned for their campaign for president and vice president of the Philippines by a popular s Title-chasing Inter recovers from 2 goals down to win 4-2 05/06/2022 05:52pm • MILAN (AP) — Lautaro Martínez may have saved Inter Milan’s title challenge. Martinez scored twice to help the defending champion recover from two goals down to beat Empoli 4-2 and move to the top of Serie A on Friday — for 48 hours at least. Inter was a point above city rival AC Milan, which Sri Lanka leader declares emergency amid protests 05/06/2022 04:29pm • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's president declared a state of emergency Friday giving him broad authority amid widespread public protests demanding his resignation over the country's worst economic crisis in recent memory. The decree issued by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa invokes sections of US added 428,000 jobs in April despite surging inflation 05/06/2022 02:33pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added 428,000 jobs in April, extending a streak of solid hiring that has defied punishing inflation, chronic supply shortages, the Russian war against Ukraine and much higher borrowing costs. Friday’s jobs report from the Labor Department showed that last Sri Lankan police use tear gas on protesters near Parliament 05/06/2022 09:38am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan police used tear gas and a water cannon on Friday to disperse student protesters who were camped outside Parliament criticizing lawmakers for not ousting President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his government over the country's worst economic crisis in decades. The st Europe's farmers stir up biogas to offset Russian energy 05/06/2022 02:39am • SONCHAMP, France (AP) — In lush fields southwest of Paris, farmers are joining Europe’s fight to free itself from Russian gas. They'll soon turn on the tap of a new facility where crops and agricultural waste are mashed up and fermented to produce “biogas.” It's among energy solutions being Fire crews close in around massive New Mexico wildfire 05/05/2022 10:14pm • LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) — Firefighters in New Mexico took advantage of diminished winds Thursday to build more fire lines and clear combustible brush near homes close to the fringes of the largest wildfire burning in the U.S. They did so ahead of what is expected to be several consecutive days of int Live updates | Pentagon: most Russian forces left Mariupol 05/05/2022 08:23pm • WASHINGTON — The Pentagon says the majority of Russian forces that had been around the port city of Mariupol have left and headed north, leaving roughly the equivalent of two battalion tactical groups there, or about 2,000 troops. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Thursday that even as Russian ai