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Stock market today: Asian benchmarks mostly slide as investors focus on earnings
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Thursday as investors awaited a flood of global earnings reports, including updates from U.S. tech companies known as the “Magnificent Seven.” Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 slid 2.1% to 37,670.50. South Korea's Kospi dropped 1.4% to...
Officials say up to 160 pilot whales beached on western Australian coast and at least 26 have died
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Up to 160 long-finned pilot whales beached on the western Australian coast Thursday and at least 26 died before wildlife authorities could begin a rescue attempt, officials said. A team of wildlife officers, marine scientists and veterinarians had...
Stock market today: Asian benchmarks mostly slide as investors focus on earnings
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Thursday as investors awaited a flood of global earnings reports, including updates from U.S. tech companies known as the “Magnificent Seven.” Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 slid 1.4% in morning trading to 37,931.81. South Korea's Kospi...
Australia and New Zealand honor their war dead with dawn services on Anzac Day
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people gathered across Australia and New Zealand for dawn services and street marches Thursday to commemorate their war dead on Anzac Day. New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon attended a dawn service in his country’s...
Australian police charge 5 teens in investigation stemming from stabbing of Sydney bishop
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Five teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology have been charged with a range of offenses in an investigation that began with the stabbing of a bishop in a Sydney church, police said Thursday. The five, aged from 14 to 17, were among...
Aboriginal spears taken by Captain Cook in 1770 are returned to Australia's Indigenous people
LONDON (AP) — Four Aboriginal spears that were taken to England by Captain James Cook more than 250 years ago were returned Tuesday to Australia's Indigenous community at a ceremony in Cambridge University. The artifacts were all that remain of some 40 spears that Cook and botanist...
Legendary rugby league star Wally Lewis appeals for concussion and CTE awareness support
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A legendary rugby player has cited the fear and anxiety that has come into his life among the reasons for urging the Australian government to fund support services and education about chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Wally Lewis, dubbed “The...
Australia and Papua New Guinea leaders trek toward WWII South Pacific battleground
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia and Papua New Guinea’s prime ministers on Tuesday began trekking into the South Pacific island nation’s mountainous interior to commemorate a pivotal World War II campaign and to underscore their current security alliance, which faces challenges from...
Elon Musk accuses Australia of censorship after court bans violent video
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Tech billionaire Elon Musk accused Australia of censorship after an Australian judge ruled that his social media platform X must block users worldwide from accessing video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese...
Australian judge bans X from sharing video of bishop being stabbed in Sydney church
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge on Monday ruled that social media platform X must block every user in the world from accessing video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church, extending the prohibition beyond users in Australia. X Corp., the tech company...
