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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s comments about Chinese President Xi Jinping as a “dictator” and China as a country with “real economic problems” drew swift condemnation from China on Wednesday, opening a fresh rift after the two countries agreed to temporary measures. Need to confirm the relationship. In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning…

Rafah, Gaza Strip (AP) — Tens of thousands of Palestinians are fleeing into an already crowded city on Gaza's southern tip, the United Nations says. Israel's bombing In the center of the strip, hospital officials said dozens were killed on Friday. Israel's unprecedented air and ground offensive against Hamas has displaced about 85% of the…

TOKYO – A US military Osprey plane with eight people on board crashed into the sea near a southern Japanese island on Wednesday morning, officials said. A regional coast guard spokesman confirmed to NBC News that the plane went down in the sea near the island of Yakushima, about 45 miles south of Kagoshima on…

Taiwan says it will not tolerate “repeated provocations” by China China warns US not to cross red line on Taiwan The President of Taiwan and the Speaker of the US Parliament are planning to meet in the US TAIPEI/BEIJING, March 7 (Reuters) – Taiwan will not tolerate “repeated provocations” by China, the island’s defense minister…

(Bloomberg) — The biggest U.S. chipmakers fell sharply in premarket trading on reports that Washington lawmakers are considering new restrictions on chip sales to China. Most Read from Bloomberg Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. It fell more than 3%, while Nasdaq 100 Index futures fell 0.5%. The Wall Street Journal reported late Tuesday…

A petite, attractive, dark-haired young woman, Caroline won two high school beauty pageants. In 1951, at the age of 16, she met a 20-year-old army infantryman, Mr. He left school to run with Bryant. “According to other family members I talked to, Carolyn was a little different than everyone else,” Devery S. Anderson, author of…

AFP via Getty Images Frank Ocean will not perform his scheduled headlining slot at Coachella this Sunday, the singer’s rep confirms. Variety. His place will be taken by Blink-182, says a person close to the situation. The report reads: “Frank Ocean will not perform at Coachella’s Weekend 2. “After injuring his leg on the festival…

PHILADELPHIA — A nearly improbable Mets win turned into a gut punch Sunday night. Short of a miracle, the Mets couldn’t escape the bottom of the ninth after Mark Vientos’ second homer of the game a half-inning earlier. But Tyler McGill surrendered a walk-off RBI single to Nick Castellanos in the bottom of the inning…

PHOENIX — On the first day of December 2021, just hours before Major League Baseball owners lock out players, the Texas Rangers held a series of press conferences to introduce their new $500 million middle infield. Both Marcus Siemian and Corey Seager left the Rivals to sign with a franchise that hadn’t posted a winning…

On Saturday, revelers from across Spain and Portugal looked forward to a memorable night on a balmy spring evening. No one expected visitors from outer space to explode overhead. At 11:46pm in Portugal, a fireball streaked across the sky, leaving a smoking trail of illuminated graffiti in its wake. Views shared on social media Shows…