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A young nurse suffered cardiac arrest while training on the condition. Fellow nurses saved her life

Dec. 06, 2023 16:52 PM EST

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Andy Hoang eagerly began her first nursing job this year in New Hampshire, with a desire to specialize in cardiac care. She was excited about attending a November practice session on how to respond to someone in cardiac arrest. But as things were getting under...

Global leaders pay tribute to Henry Kissinger, but his record also draws criticism

Nov. 30, 2023 09:33 AM EST

TOKYO (AP) — Global leaders paid tribute to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on Thursday, but there was also sharp criticism of the man who remained an influential figure decades after his official service as one of the most powerful diplomats in American history. ...

Henry Kissinger, secretary of state under Presidents Nixon and Ford, dies at 100

Nov. 30, 2023 05:55 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the diplomat with the thick glasses and gravelly voice who dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself from Vietnam and broke down barriers with China, died Wednesday, his consulting firm said. He was 100. ...

Henry Kissinger was a trusted confidant to President Nixon until the bitter, bizarre end

Nov. 30, 2023 00:07 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — All these years later, the scene still is almost too bizarre to imagine: a tearful president and his perplexed aide, neither very religious, kneeling in prayer on the floor of a White House bedroom in the waning hours of a shattered presidency. Until the...

Five things to know about Henry Kissinger, a dominant figure in global affairs in the 1970s

Nov. 29, 2023 21:34 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who died Wednesday at age 100, exerted far-reaching influence on global affairs under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford between 1969 and 1977, earning both vilification and the Nobel Peace Prize. Here are five...

Japan and Vietnam agree to boost ties and start discussing Japanese military aid amid China threat

Nov. 27, 2023 09:56 AM EST

TOKYO (AP) — Japan and Vietnam on Monday agreed to strengthen their security and economic ties in the face of China’s growing influence in the region. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong held talks in Tokyo and agreed to broaden their...

Vietnam's plan for spending $15.5 billion for its clean energy transition to be announced at COP28

Nov. 24, 2023 06:05 AM EST

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A plan for how Vietnam will spend $15.5 billion to transition to cleaner energy has been finalized and will be announced at the COP28 climate conference, which begins in Dubai next week. Mark George, the climate counselor for the British Embassy in Hanoi,...

Iowa official's wife convicted of 52 counts of voter fraud in ballot-stuffing scheme

Nov. 21, 2023 19:02 PM EST

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — The wife of a northwestern Iowa county supervisor was convicted Tuesday of a scheme to stuff the ballot box in her husband’s unsuccessful race for a Republican nomination to run for Congress in 2020. The Sioux City Journal reports that jurors deliberated...

Biden promises a better economic relationship with Asia, but he's specifically avoiding a trade deal

Nov. 16, 2023 10:33 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is nurturing economic ties this week with Asia, but he is not signing any trade deals at a regional summit in San Francisco. This fact — no trade deals — reveals much about the status of U.S. politics, the evolving global economy and the...

Asian economies must ramp up wind and solar power to keep global warming under 1.5C, report says

Nov. 15, 2023 06:56 AM EST

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — To meet the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), nine major Asian economies must increase the share of electricity they get from renewable energy from the current 6% to at least 50% by 2030, according to a report by a German...