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Ukraine's foreign minister in Hong Kong calls on officials to stop Russia from evading sanctions 07/25/2024 04:12pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Ukraine���s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Thursday called on Hong Kong to prevent Russia and Russian businesses from using the region to circumvent sanctions. Kuleba met with Hong Kong leader John Lee as part of a visit to China. He called on the administration to prevent An Indigenous sailor who has never owned a boat is the flagbearer for Fiji for Paris Games 07/25/2024 04:12pm • MARSEILLE, France (AP) ��� Growing up in Fiji in the South Pacific, Viliame Ratulu saw sailing as a ���rich man���s sport.��� The 24-year-old Ratulu has never owned a boat, but he is primed to become the first I-Taukei Indigenous sailor to compete at the Olympics. He also is the male flagbearer for Workers at GM seat supplier in Missouri reach tentative agreement, end strike 07/25/2024 03:36pm • The union representing workers a Lear Corp. plant in Missouri that makes seats for General Motors vehicles said Thursday it reached a tentative agreement with the company, ending a strike that was in its fourth day. About 480 workers at Lear Corp. in Wentzville who walked out at midnight Sunday are Future of undersea electricity cable linking Greece, Cyprus and Israel will be decided next month 07/25/2024 01:16pm • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) ��� The future of an electricity cable linking the power grids of Greece, Cyprus and Israel will be cleared up next month when a ruling is expected on whether Cypriot consumers would pick up the tab for the cable's four-year construction costs, Cyprus' energy minister said Thurs Union Pacific profit grows 7% as the railroad continues to get more efficient under CEO Jim Vena 07/25/2024 01:03pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ��� Union Pacific delivered 7% growth in its second-quarter profit even though the number of shipments it hauled remained essentially flat because it was able to continue streamlining its operations. The Omaha, Nebraska, railroad said Thursday that it earned $1.67 billion, or $2.74 Ethnic armed groups in Myanmar claim capture of regional military headquarters and gem mining center 07/25/2024 12:02pm • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Ethnic armed groups claimed on Thursday to have captured two strategically important towns in northeastern Myanmar: Lashio, which houses the major regional military headquarters, and Mogok, the center of the country���s lucrative gem-mining industry. Their fall would be the biggest Wind farms' benefits to communities can be slow or complex, leading to opposition and misinformation 07/25/2024 11:04am • After NextEra proposed a wind farm in Greeley County, Nebraska two years ago, Robert Bernt, a dairy farm owner in the area, helped to mobilize community members against the idea. His group held town hall meetings and ran ads on the radio, arguing the wind farm would ���fragment��� the community, by Forced to emigrate, Venezuelans living abroad hope for change ��� and to eventually return home 07/25/2024 10:17am • The prolonged economic and political instability in Venezuela has forced millions of Venezuelans to leave over the past decade, quashing many of their dreams and leaving many wondering if they'll ever return to what was once South America's most prosperous country. The refugee agency UNHCR estimates Philippine oil tanker sinks in Manila Bay, raising fears of a possible major spill near the capital 07/25/2024 08:48am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) ��� A Philippine oil tanker sank in Manila Bay early Thursday after encountering huge waves, leaving a crewman dead and 16 others rescued in a late-night operation by the coast guard. The force was also assessing whether the vessel was leaking oil ��� in what could be a majo The Shyft Group: Q2 Earnings Snapshot 07/25/2024 07:46am • NOVI, Mich. (AP) ��� NOVI, Mich. (AP) ��� The Shyft Group, Inc. (SHYF) on Thursday reported profit of $2.2 million in its second quarter. The Novi, Michigan-based company said it had net income of 6 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 16 cents per share. The mak UN cultural agency calls for Laos, Cambodia to invite monitoring teams to contentious UNESCO sites 07/25/2024 05:12am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� The United Nations' cultural agency recommended Thursday that Laos invite a monitoring mission to the historic city of Luang Prabang, a World Heritage Site where a nearby dam project on the Mekong River has raised concerns it could lose the coveted status. While the World Heritage With big goals and gambles, Paris aims to reset the Olympics with audacious Games and a wow opening 07/25/2024 03:13am • PARIS (AP) ��� Paris has long been a city of dreamers: Just look at the Eiffel Tower, for decades the world's loftiest structure. Audacity also underpins the French capital's plans for its first Olympic Games in a century, which open Friday with an opening ceremony for the ages. The most sprawling In this Uganda region, most women report domestic violence. Signed pledges are being used to end it 07/25/2024 01:20am • BUNDIBUGYO, Uganda (AP) ��� The drunken man kicked the saucepan off the fireplace, demanding to know why dinner was not ready. Then he struck his wife with a piece of firewood, triggering a fight. They grappled before being separated. The skit about domestic violence had been staged for the benefit Oregon fire is the largest burning in the US. Thunderstorms and high winds are exacerbating it 07/25/2024 12:45am • BOISE, Idaho (AP) ��� Powerful winds and hundreds of lightning strikes from thunderstorms rattled eastern Oregon and Idaho Wednesday afternoon, cutting power and stoking fires, including one in Oregon that is already the largest active blaze in the nation. The Durkee Fire, burning near the Oregon-I Church sues Colorado town to be able to shelter homeless in trailers, work 'mandated by God' 07/25/2024 12:25am • CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) ��� Behind a church surrounded by rolling prairie on the outskirts of this Colorado town sits a donated RV that Joe Ridenour called home for a year after he lost his job during the pandemic. Being able to live in the RV, he said, allowed him to avoid returning to his native K