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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, left, speaks during a joint press conference with Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Sydney, Australia, Friday, July 8, 2022.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, left, and Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speak during a press conference in Sydney, Australia, Friday, July 8, 2022.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, left, speaks during a joint press conference with Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Sydney, Australia, Friday, July 8, 2022.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, left, and Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese smile as they arrive for a press conference in Sydney, Australia, Friday, July 8, 2022.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during a joint press conference with Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Sydney, Australia, Friday, July 8, 2022.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, second left, and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, right, sit at the table during the Australia-New Zealand Leaders' Meeting at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices in Sydney, Australia, on Friday, July 8, 2022.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, left, speaks during a joint press conference with Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Sydney, Australia, Friday, July 8, 2022.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, left, and Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speak during a press conference in Sydney, Australia, Friday, July 8, 2022.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, left, speaks during a joint press conference with Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Sydney, Australia, Friday, July 8, 2022.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, left, and Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese smile as they arrive for a press conference in Sydney, Australia, Friday, July 8, 2022.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during a joint press conference with Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Sydney, Australia, Friday, July 8, 2022.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, second left, and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, right, sit at the table during the Australia-New Zealand Leaders' Meeting at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices in Sydney, Australia, on Friday, July 8, 2022.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia and New Zealand’s prime ministers agreed Friday that the security implications of China’s burgeoning influence must be discussed at a meeting of western Pacific leaders next week.
The neighboring countries are the wealthiest in the 18-member Pacific Islands Forum whose leaders will meet July 11-14 in the Fijian capital Suva.
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Former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos has died in a clinic in Barcelona, Spain after an illness, the Angolan government said. He was 80 years old and died following a long illness, the government said Friday in an announcement on its Facebook page. The announcement said dos Santos, who ruled Angola for almost 40 years from 1979, was “a statesman of great historical scale who governed ... the Angolan nation through very difficult times.”
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New York state is rolling out a novel strategy to screen applicants for gun permits by requiring people seeking to carry concealed handguns to hand over their social media accounts for a review of their “character and conduct.” It’s an approach applauded by many Democrats and national gun control advocacy groups as missed warning signs pile up in investigations of mass killings. But some experts have raised questions about how the law will be enforced and how it will address free speech concerns. Some of the local officials who will be tasked with reviewing the social media content also are asking whether they’ll have the resources.
Lewis Hamilton believes he is close to winning again while Carlos Sainz Jr. is hungry for another Formula One victory heading into this weekend’s Austrian Prix. It took Sainz 150 races to finally win at a crash-marred Silverstone last Sunday when Hamilton collected a second straight podium to underline how the Mercedes upgrades are paying off. Back-to-back podiums have left the Briton confident that a first win is approaching. He last won 12 races ago at the penultimate race of 2021 in Saudi Arabia. The 7-time F1 champion says "I truly believe we can get a race win this year."
As President Joe Biden runs up against the limits of what he can do on abortion, gun control and other issues without larger Democratic majorities in Congress, some in his party want more fire and boldness than his acknowledgement of their frustration and calls imploring people to vote in November. Lately, the outrage and energy come from outside Washington, as blue-state governors buttressed by one-party rule of their statehouses offer the most aggressive responses on the issues. Governors J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, Kathy Hochul of New York and Gavin Newsom of California may have tools more conducive to swift action than Biden does. The White House says Biden will take executive action Friday on abortion access.
Over a dozen endangered sea turtles that were rescued after suffering major injuries in the Mediterranean scuttled their way over a beach in Israel after months of medical care. The 15 loggerhead sea turtles and two green sea turtles were released back into the wild Friday after months of rehabilitation at the Sea Turtle Rescue Center in central Israel. Each had been brought to the facility run by Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority over the winter suffering from various kinds of physical trauma, likely caused by underwater explosives.
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Shinzo Abe was a political blueblood groomed for power. Japan’s longest serving prime minister, he was also perhaps the most polarizing, complex politician in recent Japanese history. Abe, who was assassinated Friday, angered both liberals at home and World War II victims in Asia with his hawkish push to revamp the military and his revisionist view that Japan was given an unfair verdict by history for its brutal past. At the same time, he revitalized Japan’s economy, led efforts for the nation to take a stronger role in Asia and served as a rare beacon of political stability before stepping down two years ago for health reasons.
The Greek and Bulgarian prime ministers have inaugurated a new energy pipeline that will supply natural gas originating in Azerbaijan to Bulgaria. Bulgaria's vital supply of Russian gas was cut off in April amid the fallout over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stressed the importance of the new link as an alternative supply line for Bulgaria. Neighboring Greece is jockeying to turn into a regional energy hub. Mitsotakis said during a ceremony in northeastern Greece on Friday that "this isn’t just a gas pipeline but a crucial south-north energy bridge.” Acting Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov highlighted the pipeline’s role in ending Russia’s gas monopoly in his country.
A Pennsylvania 911 operator faces involuntary manslaughter and other charges for failing to send an ambulance to the rural home of a woman who died of internal bleeding about a day later. A county detective last week filed charges against 50-year-old Leon Price, of Waynesburg, in the July 2020 death of Diania Kronk. The charges are based on Price’s failure to dispatch help without getting more assurance that Kronk would go to the hospital. A legal expert says criminal charges against dispatchers are rare. The daughter of the 54-year-old Kronk says she believes her mother would have lived if an ambulance had been sent.
A court in Moscow has sentenced a municipal council member to seven years in prison for his remarks opposing the war in Ukraine. The unprecedented sentence raises the stakes for Kremlin critics in Russia who speak out against Moscow’s invasion of its ex-Soviet neighbor. Alexei Gorinov was found guilty Friday of spreading “knowingly false information” about the Russian military. The offense carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison under a law the Russian parliament rubber-stamped a week after the invasion of Ukraine. A legal aid group says the 60-year-old member of Moscow’s Krasnoselsky municipal council is the first person sentenced to serve time behind bars for a conviction on that charge.
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Pope Francis is planning to restart his pilgrimages within Italy after a pandemic-induced lull and knee pain that has made walking and standing difficult. The Vatican said Friday that Francis would make back-to-back September day trips to the hilltop town of Assisi and the southern city of Matera. In Assisi, he'll participate in a Sept. 24 conference of young people calling for a more socially just and equitable world. The next day in Matera, he is scheduled to meet with refugees and to close out a eucharistic conference of the Italian Catholic Church.
Villarreal says that veteran goalkeeper Pepe Reina is returning to the Spanish league after agreeing to a one-year contract. Reina originally played for Villarreal before making the leap to Liverpool in 2005 and establishing himself as a top player at his position. He will turn 40 in August. On joining Unai Emery’s team, Reina will likely serve as a backup to Gerónimo Rulli after the departure of longtime goalie Sergio Asenjo. Reina was a backup on the Spain teams that won the 2010 World Cup and the European Championship in 2008 and 2012.
A former Chinese vice minister of public security has gone on trial, accused of collecting 646 million yuan ($96.3 million) in bribes over nearly two decades. Sun Lijun faces charges of selling government positions, manipulating stock prices and illegally possessing firearms, in one of the most high-profile corruption trials in years. Sun, who was also accused of abandoning his post amid the COVID-19 outbreak, has pleaded guilty, state broadcaster CCTV said in a report on Friday's trial, which is being held at the Intermediate Court in the northeastern city of Changchun.
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — Japan’s longest-serving premier and a figure of enduring influence — died after being shot at a campaign event Friday in an attack that shocked a nation where political violence and guns are rare.
Andy Stone is one of the lucky ones. The New York City resident saw a tweet from a local AIDS activist saying that monkeypox vaccines would be available that day at a clinic in Manhattan. Stone, 35, and his husband booked appointments online right away and got their shots last month.
A Ukrainian regional official is warning of deteriorating living conditions in a city captured by Russian forces two weeks ago. He said Friday that Sievierodonetsk is without water, power or a working sewage system while dead bodies decompose in hot apartment buildings. Gov. Serhiy Haidai said the Russians unleashed indiscriminate artillery barrages as they try to secure their gains in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk province. Moscow has claimed full control of Luhansk, but the governor and other officials say Ukrainian troops hold a small part of the province. Russian President Vladimir Putin says his military is prepared for more brutal fighting. "Largely speaking, we haven’t even yet started anything in earnest,” Putin said.
The European Central Bank has taken a look at how the continent's banks are accounting for possible losses from climate change. And it says there's a lot of room for improvement. The ECB's climate stress test released Friday said that banks must “urgently step up efforts” to get a handle on the trouble they could suffer under different climate scenarios, for instance if disasters keep borrowers from paying. Most banks had no framework at all for assessing the kinds of losses they could take on fires and floods and losses on share holding. The ECB said it's a learning exercise for now but banks will be expected to meet guidelines in future.
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe has come a long way since its early days when Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow was the sole female hero and most other women with substantial screen time were relegated to love interests and damsels.
Tottenham has sold Netherlands winger Steven Bergwijn to Ajax for a fee of 31.25 million euros ($32 million) as the London club funds its offseason makeover under manager Antonio Conte. The 24-year-old Bergwijn scored only four Premier League goals in his two seasons since joining from Dutch club PSV Eindhoven, although two last season were key in helping Tottenham qualify for the Champions League after a two-season absence. Tottenham is closing in on making defender Clement Lenglet its fifth summer recruit on a season-long loan from Barcelona. Ivan Perisic, Fraser Forster, Yves Bissouma and Richarlison have all already completed moves to north London.
A field of candidates to replace departing Prime Minister Boris Johnson began to take shape Friday, even as some Conservative Party lawmakers pushed to get the scandal-tarnished leader out of office before his replacement is elected in the next couple of months. Lawmaker Tom Tugendhat, who chairs the House of Commons’ influential Foreign Affairs Committee, became the second candidate to declare he is running, after Attorney General Suella Braverman. Johnson announced his resignation as party leader on Thursday but said he would stay in post as prime minister until his successor is chosen. That decision did not sit well with some of his Conservative colleagues, who worry Johnson lacks the authority to hang on.
News that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had been shot in broad daylight has shocked not only Japan but the entire world, which has come to associate the relatively low-crime nation with strict gun control. Police say that Japan, with a population of 125 million, had just 10 gun-related criminal cases last year, resulting in one death and four injuries. Most Japanese go through life without ever handling, or even seeing, a real-life gun. Stabbings are more common as a fatal crime. The debate over the right to bear arms has been a distant issue here for decades.
In the end, it wasn't one scandal that brought down Boris Johnson. It was a series.
LOS ANGELES — The bargain buyers drifted out of a popular Little Saigon fruit shop with tote bags full of pale brown longan and hairy red rambutan, barely glancing at the dirt-smeared face of Duc Tran.
Just thinking out loud here, but if it's true that Kevin Durant has no leverage in picking his next team, why are the Nets trading him in the first place? Before I tell you why this matters to the Sixers, let's answer the question. The idea that Durant's contract will limit his veto power ov…
LOS ANGELES — Mark had been wanting to quit using meth for a while when someone pointed him to the folding table propped up at the skid row site where homeless people stop for showers and laundry.
Candace Parker is one of the most recognizable faces in women’s basketball.
BALTIMORE — In the stuffy fourth-floor attic of a historic Baltimore academic building, amid discarded furniture and dusty filing cabinets, Larry Pitrof discovered treasure.
In the multi-act play titled “The Future of College Football,” ESPN and Fox alternate in the starring role of God, with the Big 12 serving as a court jester.
WIMBLEDON, England — So many elements of these glorious championships are ageless.
The word “momentum” only barely begins to cover how the Hurricanes are rolling on the recruiting trail right now.
The anger was immediate, arising just minutes after news broke that USC and UCLA were headed for the Big Ten Conference. Fans tapped out posts on social media, one after another, invoking the name of Larry Scott.
DENVER — A draft update to a statewide water plan projects significant supply shortfalls for both urban and agricultural users by 2050 in the face of climate change and more people.
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