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  • Stock market today: Wall Street opens higher following signal that labor market is cooling

    September 01, 2023 - 6:45 AM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street after a closely watched report showed that the job market, while still healthy, has been showing some signs of cooling. That’s leading markets to hope that the Federal Reserve can soon ease up on its campaign to slow down the economy by raising interest rates. The S&P 500 was up 0.4% in the early going. The index is coming off its first monthly loss since February. The Dow rose 144 points, or 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite was up 0.2%.

  • Chinese factory churns out British flags after queen's death

    September 17, 2022 - 7:43 PM

    SHAOXING, China (AP) — Ninety minutes after Queen Elizabeth II died, orders for thousands of British flags started to flood into a factory south of Shanghai.

  • Sri Lankan president flees the country amid economic crisis

    July 12, 2022 - 9:33 PM

    COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The president of Sri Lanka fled the country early Wednesday, slipping away in the middle of the night only hours before he was to step down amid a devastating economic crisis that has triggered severe shortages of food and fuel.

  • Taliban militants violently disperse rare Afghan protest

    August 18, 2021 - 11:37 AM

    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban militants attacked protesters Wednesday in Afghanistan who dared to take down their banner and replace it with the country's flag, killing at least one person and fueling fears about how the insurgents would govern this fractious nation.

  • Denied by COVID-19 in 2020, Tampa gets second chance to pull out Stanley Cup stops

    June 28, 2021 - 2:00 AM

    TAMPA, Fla. - Don't get Joseph Guggino wrong: he's thrilled to have the Stanley Cup finals in town.

  • Lawmakers remove state legislator over Oregon Capitol breach

    June 10, 2021 - 8:23 PM

    SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Lawmakers in Oregon on Thursday night expelled a Republican legislator who let violent, far-right protesters into the Statehouse.

  • Workers protest Indonesia's labour law in May Day rallies

    May 01, 2021 - 3:33 AM

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - Workers in Indonesia marked international labour day on Saturday with significantly less-attended marches due to coronavirus restrictions, but thousands still vented their anger at a new law they say harms their rights and welfare.

  • Protesting India farmers blockade highways for several hours

    February 06, 2021 - 4:12 AM

    NEW DELHI - Thousands of protesting Indian farmers blockaded highways across the country for several hours Saturday to press their demands for the repeal of new agricultural laws that have led to months of massive protests.

  • Nation by nation, the world watches Election Day in the US

    November 03, 2020 - 2:29 PM

    For four years, the world’s nations have watched as a very different American president engages with the international community — or doesn’t.

  • Time to 'revenge shop': China's virus hot spot reopens

    March 30, 2020 - 6:02 PM

    WUHAN, China - The city at the centre of China's virus outbreak was reopening for business Monday after authorities lifted more of the controls that locked downs tens of millions of people for two months. “I want to revenge shop,” declared an excited customer at one of Wuhan's major shopping streets.
  • Reid Hamer-Jackson at his swearing in ceremony, Nov. 1, 2022. JONESIE: Why Reid Hamer-Jackson can't fight city hall
    OPINION I don’t live in Kamloops. Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson’s antics have no effect on me personally, so allow me to be a bit more philosophical about it. I want to like the guy, more for what he could represent than wh
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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