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Asian stocks rise after Wall St slips closer to bear market 05/20/2022 12:34am • BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets rose Friday after Wall Street fell closer to bear territory, China cut a key interest rate and Japanese inflation edged higher. Market benchmarks in Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney advanced. Oil prices fell more than $1 per barrel. Wall Street's benchmark S US, S Korean leaders meet in face of N Korea nuclear threat 05/20/2022 12:04am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — When the U.S. and South Korean leaders meet Saturday, North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile program, already a major focus, may receive extra attention if intelligence predictions of an imminent major weapons demonstration by the North, which is struggling with a CO Celtics roll past Heat 127-102, tie Eastern finals at 1-1 05/19/2022 11:50pm • MIAMI (AP) — His team was down by 10 in the opening minutes, and Boston coach Ime Udoka was making no effort to hide his level of disappointment. His message was simple. “Wake up," he told his team. Oh, they listened. And the Eastern Conference finals are all knotted up, the series abou N. Korea's low death count questioned amid COVID-19 outbreak 05/19/2022 11:47pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Friday that nearly 10% of its 26 million people have fallen ill and 65 people have died amid its first COVID-19 outbreak, as outside experts question the validity of its reported fatalities and worry about a possible humanitarian crisis. After admitting t DC doctor urges COVID-19 vaccination, boosters for eligible young children 05/19/2022 10:37pm • Acknowledging significant hesitancy around vaccinating children against COVID-19, a D.C. pediatrician urges parents to reflect upon potentially bad consequences of leaving them unprotected. Parents of kids 5 to 11 years old are being urged to get them vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19, now EXPLAINER: What is monkeypox and where is it spreading? 05/19/2022 10:30pm • LONDON (AP) — European and American health authorities have identified a number of monkeypox cases in recent days, mostly in young men. It's a surprising outbreak of a disease that rarely appears outside Africa. Health officials around the world are keeping watch for more cases because, for the fi CDC urges Pfizer booster for children ages 5 to 11 05/19/2022 07:23pm • Kids ages 5 to 11 should get a booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, advisers to the U.S. government said Thursday. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention quickly adopted the panel’s recommendation, opening a third COVID-19 shot to healthy elementary-age kids — just like what is Naquin homers, Reds down Guardians 4-2 for 2-game sweep 05/19/2022 05:16pm • CLEVELAND (AP) — Tyler Naquin wasn't aware there was an award given to the most outstanding player in the Ohio Cup until it was handed to him. “I’ll take all the trophies I can get,” he said, smiling. Naquin homered in the fifth inning, scored on Kyle Farmer's go-ahead single in the eighth a UK's Johnson faces no further fines over 'partygate' scandal 05/19/2022 03:04pm • LONDON (AP) — Britain's Metropolitan Police told Prime Minister Boris Johnson he faced no further action over lockdown-breaching gatherings at his official residence and other government sites, after the force said Thursday it has concluded its investigation into politicians' parties that violated Biden has an eye on China as he heads to South Korea, Japan 05/19/2022 02:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden embarked Thursday on a six-day trip to South Korea and Japan aiming to build rapport with the two nations’ leaders while also sending an unmistakable message to China: Russia’s faltering invasion of Ukraine should give Beijing pause about its own saber-rat Spain confirms 7 monkeypox cases as European outbreak grows 05/19/2022 10:59am • MADRID (AP) — Health officials in Spain reported seven cases of monkeypox and Portugal updated its number of confirmed cases to 14 Thursday as an outbreak of a viral disease typically limited to Africa expanded in Europe. In Spain, all of the reported cases to date involved men in Madrid, officia WHO clears China's CanSino COVID vaccine for emergency use 05/19/2022 08:38am • GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization said Thursday that it has granted an emergency use authorization for the coronavirus vaccine made by China's CanSino Biologics, the 11th such shot to receive the green light. The U.N. health agency said the single-dose CanSino vaccine was found to be abo Shanghai to reopen subways in easing of COVID lockdown 05/19/2022 07:02am • BEIJING (AP) — The locked-down Chinese metropolis of Shanghai will reopen four of its 20 subway lines Sunday as it slowly eases pandemic restrictions that have kept most residents in their housing complexes for more than six weeks. The city will also restart 273 bus lines connecting major urban ce Tea and infomercials: N. Korea fights COVID with few tools 05/19/2022 06:50am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — On a recent nighttime visit to a drugstore, a double-masked Kim Jong Un lamented the slow delivery of medicine. Separately, the North Korean leader's lieutenants have quarantined hundreds of thousands of suspected COVID-19 patients and urged people with mild symptoms to t North Korea's suspected COVID-19 caseload nears 2 million 05/19/2022 06:43am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Thursday reported 262,270 more suspected COVID-19 cases as its pandemic caseload neared 2 million — a week after the country acknowledged the outbreak and scrambled to slow infections in its unvaccinated population. The country is also trying to prevent i