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HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese technology giant Huawei says it has emerged from “crisis mode” after years of U.S. restrictions that have stifled its overseas sales, even though its revenue for 2022 failed to grow from a year earlier. “U.S. restrictions are now our new normal, and we’re back to business as usual,” Eric Xu, Huawei’s current chairman, said in a New Year’s message released Friday. Huawei Technologies Ltd., China’s […]

Dec. 22 – Dec. 29 From the British Royals attending their first yearly Christmas church walk since the death of the queen to protests in France after a shooting at a Kurdish center in Paris, this photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Europe and Africa. The selection was curated by AP photographer Gregorio Borgia in […]

POIPET, Cambodia (AP) — The confirmed death toll from a massive fire at a casino hotel complex in western Cambodia rose to 25 on Friday as the search resumed for victims, officials said. The blaze at the Grand Diamond City casino and hotel in the town of Poipet on the Thai border started around midnight Wednesday and was extinguished more than 12 hours later on Thursday afternoon. By Friday morning, […]

RAQQA, Syria (AP) — Marwa Ahmad rarely leaves her run-down house in the Syrian city of Raqqa. The single mother of four says people look at her with suspicion and refuse to offer her a job, while her children get bullied and beaten up at school. She and her children are paying the price, she says, because she once belonged to the Islamic State group, which overran a swath of […]

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard spent hours Thursday searching waters off Louisiana for four people who were on board a helicopter that crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. The helicopter crashed as it was departing an oil platform about 8:40 a.m. CST, said Petty Officer Jose Hernandez, a spokesman for the Coast Guard’s 8th District headquartered in New Orleans. Crews searching by boat and helicopter had […]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire investor Warren Buffett broke with his practice of staying out of local politics to urge his hometown of Omaha to abandon its planned streetcar project because he says it’s too expensive and not as flexible as buses. Buffett wrote a letter to the editor of the Omaha World-Herald and met with the mayor this week to lobby against the $306 million project and urge the […]

Kanye West at Forefront of Antisemitism in 2022, Jewish Rights Group Says Simon Wiesenthal Center lists its Top 10 anti-Jewish sources and incidents for the year, with its director of Global Social Action telling TML that the rapper unleashed a ‘tsunami of hate against the Jewish people’ By Felice Friedson and Sara Miller/ The Media Line Celebrities led by American rapper Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and social media […]

Deadly Year in West Bank Leaves Palestinians, Israelis Wary About 2023 The new Israeli government is expected to be the country’s most far-right ever, and raises the possibility of an even deadlier conflict with the Palestinians By Keren Setton/The Media Line It was a bloody year in the West Bank and, as it comes to an end, there is little optimism for 2023. Israelis and Palestinians continued to interact violently […]

From spearheading the “beautiful game” to helping Brazil win three World Cup titles, Pelé embodied greatness in his sport. The incarnation of the country’s style and elegance on the field, Pelé began enchanting Brazilian fans as a teenager. He helped the Selecao lift the World Cup trophy for the first time in 1958, when he was only 17. He excelled for years and years — and by the time Pelé […]