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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States has demanded that Cuba open up to private investment, and Cuba has passed sweeping reforms to encourage just that. So Cuba’s U.N. ambassador says he wants to know why Washington keeps piling on sanctions that stymie the very economic opening it has sought for decades. Ambassador Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, in an interview this week with The Associated Press, directed his question to U.S. […]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Search teams on Friday found the remains of American climber Mallory Geis, the last missing member of a 10-member international mountaineering team that was killed in an avalanche on Broad Peak weeks ago, a mountaineering official and local authorities said. Geis’ remains were found by a team comprising of local volunteers, according to Irfan Arshad Khan, president of the Alpine Club of Pakistan. The expedition was Geis’ […]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The family and opposition party of imprisoned former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday accused authorities of violating a Supreme Court order by taking him to a government hospital for a medical examination instead of a private hospital designated by the court. Khan’s sister Uzma Khan told a news conference she was present at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, a government-run hospital in Islamabad, when […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Book lovers this fall can look forward to a wealth of fiction, biographies, memoirs, poetry collections and topical nonfiction. Here are five upcoming works you’ll likely be hearing about. Marlon James’ fantasy series “Dark Star” was a showcase for his extraordinary and boundless imagination. In “The Disappearers,” he returns to his native Jamaica and to the murderous reality of his Booker Prize-winning “A Brief History of […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Midterm election news will fill the headlines this fall, but, among book buyers, fiction will likely have top billing. Former President Joe Biden’s “Promise Me, America” stands out not just as a White House memoir — presidential memoirs are events unto themselves — but as a rare high-profile political book over the next few months. Nonfiction sales have slumped in recent years and political books haven’t […]

BEIJING, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Tesla will roll out software fixes for millions of vehicles in China, the country’s market regulator said on Monday, marking the automaker’s largest-ever recall in the market. Effective September 25, Tesla will recall 2.98 million China-made and imported Model 3, Model Y, Model S and Model X vehicles because emergency door release handles may be difficult to identify, potentially hindering escape or rescue after a […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Tehran’s grocery stores are well-stocked, but many families can barely afford the basics. Unemployment is soaring and those with jobs are working more hours for money worth half as much as a year ago, putting food, medicine and everything else — except for heavily subsidized gasoline — further out of reach. “We have virtually given up on many things,” said Ahmad Karimi, 52, a taxi driver […]

Aug 21 (Reuters) – The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Friday it has opened a probe into 997,743 General Motors pickup trucks and SUVs over concerns related to engine failure. The vehicles include the Cadillac Escalade, Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Yukon, among others, from model years 2021-2026 equipped with GM’s L87 engines. The auto safety regulator said it received 499 complaints alleging engine failures despite the […]

By Laura Matthews NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Nvidia’s earnings report and the Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole symposium will test the assumptions behind this year’s stock market rally, offering clues on whether the AI-driven surge in equities can withstand rising uncertainty over growth and interest rates. Global bond yields surged this week, sending the 30-year Treasury yield to its highest level since 2007, pressuring stocks and raising concerns about […]