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Yangtze shrinks as China's drought disrupts industry

By MARK SCHIEFELBEIN
Aug 19, 2022 7:00 am - CHONGQING, China (AP) - Ships crept down the middle of the Yangtze on Friday after China's driest summer in six decades left one of the mightiest rivers barely half its ...
Bank of Cyprus rejects 3 Lone Star bids for share buyout

The Associated Press
Aug 19, 2022 7:00 am - NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - Cyprus' largest bank, Bank of Cyprus, said Friday it has rejected three successive cash bids over the last three months by LSF XI Investments LLC ...
Foot Locker names former Ulta Beauty chief as CEO

By MATT OTT
Aug 19, 2022 7:00 am - SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) - The chief executive who oversaw the rapid expansion of Ulta Beauty will take over as CEO of Foot Locker during a period of significant transiti...
Authors and friends rally and read for Salman Rushdie

By HILLEL ITALIE
Aug 19, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Friends and fellow authors spoke out on Salman Rushdie's behalf during a rally Friday on the steps of the main branch of the New York Public Library, one...
Foot found in Yellowstone hot spring linked to July death

By AMY BETH HANSON and THOMAS PEIPERT
Aug 19, 2022 7:00 am - HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Part of a human foot found in a shoe floating in a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park earlier this week is believed to be linked to the death o...
China jails Canadian tycoon for 13 years for finance crimes

By JOE McDONALD
Aug 19, 2022 7:00 am - BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese-born Canadian tycoon who disappeared from Hong Kong in 2017 was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for a multibillion-dollar string of finan...
Judge won't let Graham delay testimony in election probe

By KATE BRUMBACK
Aug 19, 2022 7:00 am - ATLANTA (AP) - Sen. Lindsey Graham can't put off his appearance before a special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried ...
CDC confirms Nebraska child died of brain-eating amoeba

The Associated Press
Aug 19, 2022 7:00 am - OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Federal health officials confirmed Friday that a Nebraska child died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a river n...
British national gets life in prison for Islamic State hostage-taking scheme that took about 2 dozen Westerners captive

The Associated Press
Aug 19, 2022 7:00 am - ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - British national gets life in prison for Islamic State hostage-taking scheme that took about 2 dozen Westerners captive. ...
Australia upset at Indonesia reducing Bali bomber's sentence

The Associated Press
Aug 19, 2022 7:00 am - CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australia's leader said Friday that it's upsetting Indonesia has further reduced the prison sentence of the bombmaker in the Bali attack that ...

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