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Business

Myanmar junta gains hold on jade profits as fighting flares

By ELAINE KURTENBACH and JERRY HARMER Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The military takeover in Myanmar has given ... Read more

Business

Myanmar junta gains hold on jade profits as fighting flares

By ELAINE KURTENBACH and JERRY HARMER Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The military takeover in Myanmar has given ... Read more

Obituaries

Mike Gravel, former US senator for Alaska, dies at 91

SEASIDE, Calif. (AP) — Mike Gravel, a former U.S. senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into ... Read more

Business

Cyber attack tied to China boosts development bank’s chief

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The cyberattack crested just as finance officials from across Latin ... Read more

Saudi Arabia offers cease-fire plan to Yemen rebels

By JON GAMBRELL and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia announced a ... Read more

Business

A year into pandemic, veterans halls ‘barely hanging’ on

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — Paul Guilbeault knew the writing was on the ... Read more

Crime

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ——— March 17 The ... Read more

Business

US sanctions 24 China and Hong Kong officials ahead of talks

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The U.S. sanctioned an additional 24 Chinese and Hong ... Read more

Business

The Latest: China donates vaccine doses to UN peacekeepers

By The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS — China’s U.N. ambassador says China is donating 300,000 doses of COVID-19 ... Read more

Business

EXPLAINER: Myanmar using martial law to ‘legitimize’ tactics

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s ruling junta on Monday imposed martial law in parts of the country’s biggest ... Read more