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A woman wearing a face mask walks past a bank's electronic board showing the Hong Kong share index in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. Asian shares were mostly higher Tuesday in the absence of big market-moving news following a national holiday in the U.S. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Asia shares mostly rise moderately after US national holiday

'No end in sight:' Texas abortion clinics dealt new setback
Asia shares mostly rise moderately after US national holiday
A woman wearing a face mask walks past a bank's electronic board showing the Hong Kong share index in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. Asian shares were mostly higher Tuesday in the absence of big market-moving news following a national holiday in the U.S. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Pharrell Williams calls for economic equity during MLK event
FILE - Norfolk State University President Javaune Adams-Gaston bestows Pharrell Williams with an honorary doctorate after he gave the commencement speech, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, in Norfolk, Va. In remarks made Monday, Jan. 17, 2022, during the Urban League of Hampton Roads' annual Martin Luther King Jr. awards program, singer and music producer Williams challenged corporate America to
Texas rabbi says he, 2 hostages escaped synagogue standoff
Congregation Beth Israel Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, facing camera, hugs a man after a healing service Monday night, Jan. 17, 2022, at White's Chapel United Methodist Church in Southlake, Texas. Cytron-Walker was one of four people held hostage by a gunman at his Colleyville, Texas, synagogue on Saturday. (Yffy Yossifor/Star-Telegram via AP)
Support flows to 'changed' Texas synagogue after standoff
Law enforcement process the scene in front of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022, in Colleyville, Texas. A man held hostages for more than 10 hours Saturday inside the temple. The hostages were able to escape and the hostage taker was killed. FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno said a team would investigate

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This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows a view of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai volcano in Tonga Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022 after a huge undersea volcanic eruption. (Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies via AP)
Volcanic ash delays aid to Tonga as scale of damage emerges
Congregation Beth Israel Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, facing camera, hugs a man after a healing service Monday night, Jan. 17, 2022, at White's Chapel United Methodist Church in Southlake, Texas. Cytron-Walker was one of four people held hostage by a gunman at his Colleyville, Texas, synagogue on Saturday. (Yffy Yossifor/Star-Telegram via AP)
Texas rabbi says he, 2 hostages escaped synagogue standoff
This photo provided by the North Korean government, shows what it says a test-fire of tactical guided missile in North Korea Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads:
North Korea: Tactical guided missiles fired in latest test
Law enforcement process the scene in front of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022, in Colleyville, Texas. A man held hostages for more than 10 hours Saturday inside the temple. The hostages were able to escape and the hostage taker was killed. FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno said a team would investigate
Support flows to 'changed' Texas synagogue after standoff
Tornado victim's family sues Amazon over warehouse collapse
FILE - An Amazon distribution center is heavily damaged after a strong thunderstorm moved through the area, Dec. 10, 2021, in Edwardsville, Ill. The family of a delivery driver who died last month when a tornado collapsed the central Illinois Amazon facility where he worked filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday, Jan. 17, 2022 in Madison County. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Virginia's 1st female lt. gov. takes her seat in the Senate
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears pledges allegiance as she presides at the Capitol Monday Jan. 17, 2022, in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
UN chief: Over 12,000 detainees held officially in Libya
3 California teenagers killed in car crash near Los Angeles
Emergency personnel work at the scene of a fatal accident after the vehicle plunged off an elevated section of Interstate 210 landing below on Michillinda Ave., just south of Foothill Blvd., in Pasadena, Calif., late Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022. Two people in the car died at the scene and the third died at a hospital, KABC-TV reported. (AP Photo/James Carbone)
Yellowstone bison species decision questioned by US judge
FILE - A mother bison leads her calf through deep snow toward a road in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., on Feb. 20, 2021. In January 2022, a federal judge has ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to revisit part of its decision not to protect Yellowstone National Park's bison as an endangered species. Buffalo Field Campaign and Western Watersheds Project have been fighting since 2014 to have Yellowstone's bison declared endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act. (Ryan Dorgan/Jackson Hole News & Guide via AP, File)
On MLK Day, King III implores Senate to act on voting rights
In a long exposure photo, lights from a snowplow illuminate sleet at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022. Ceremonies scheduled for the site on Monday, to mark the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday, have been canceled because of the weather. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Train derails near LA site of recent wave of cargo thefts
A member of the media picks up a shredded box at a section of the Union Pacific train tracks in downtown Los Angeles, Friday, Jan. 14, 2022. Thieves have been raiding cargo containers aboard trains nearing downtown Los Angeles for months, leaving the tracks blanketed with discarded packages. The sea of debris left behind included items that the thieves apparently didn't think were valuable enough to take, CBSLA reported Thursday. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
Funeral services held for 12 killed in Philadelphia fire
Mourners embrace during funeral services for the victims of a deadly row house fire, at Temple University in Philadelphia, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. Officials say it's the city's deadliest single fire in at least a century. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Winter storm whipping northeast US with snow, thunderstorms
Pedestrians make their way down a partially plowed Murray Avenue Monday, Jan. 17, 2022, in Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. (Pam Panchak/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
Official: Alec Baldwin surrenders phone for shooting probe
FILE - Alec Baldwin performs emcee duties at the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award Gala at New York Hilton Midtown on Dec. 9, 2021, in New York. Baldwin has surrendered his cellphone as part of the investigation into a fatal shooting on a New Mexico film set last fall. A Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office spokesman says Baldwin's phone was turned over Friday, Jan. 14, 2022, to authorities in New York's Suffolk County and that information from the phone will be provided to investigators. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
WVa governor resumes briefings, says COVID is 'tough stuff'
Court to hear appeal of man convicted in son's hot-car death
FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2016, file photo, Justin Ross Harris listens during his trial at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. The Georgia man found guilty of murder in the 2014 death of his toddler son, who died after he was left in a hot car for hours, is asking the state's highest court to overturn his conviction. Justin Ross Harris was convicted in November 2016 on eight counts, including malice murder, in the June 2014 death of his 22-month-old son, Cooper. (Stephen B. Morton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool, File)
Steve Schapiro, prize-winning photographer, dies at 87
Officer shot teen in neck after car chase near Miami
Pinelands lovers: NJ not saving forests from vehicle damage
This Oct. 13, 2021, photo shows Albert Horner, a longtime nature photographer in New Jersey's Pinelands region, holding a map of areas that have sustained damage from illegal vehicle use in the woods in Shamong, N.J. Hikers and environmentalists who use New Jersey's Pinelands say the state is not doing enough to protect the fragile woodlands from damage from illegally used off-road vehicles. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Pandemic hasn't slowed China's love for US lobster
FILE - A lobster rears its claws after being caught off Spruce Head, Maine, Aug. 31, 2021. China is showing no signs of slowing its demand for American lobster this year despite disruption to the supply chain and international trade caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The lobsters are especially sought after in winter because they are a popular delicacy on Chinese New Year, which is Feb. 1 this year. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
Pilot of crashed medical helicopter released from hospital
A medical helicopter rests next to the Drexel Hill United Methodist Church after it crashed in the Drexel Hill section of Upper Darby, Pa., on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. Authorities and a witness say a pilot crash landed a medical helicopter without casualties in a residential area of suburban Philadelphia, miraculously avoiding a web of power lines and buildings as the aircraft fluttered, hit the street and slid into bushes outside a church.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
World shares mixed after China reports slowing growth
A woman wearing a face mask walks past a bank's electronic board showing the Hong Kong share index in Hong Kong, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. Shares were mixed in Asia on Monday after China reported that its economy expanded at an 8.1% annual pace in 2021, though growth slowed to half that level in the last quarter. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Fund to preserve, assist Black churches gets $20M donation
FILE _ This file photo shows Ausar Vandross taking a photo of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, June 16, 2016. The church is among those that have been assisted by a fund to help historic Black churches, and a new, $20 million donation will help additional ones. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
Texas rabbi: Captor grew 'belligerent' late in standoff
Law enforcement process the scene in front of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022, in Colleyville, Texas. A man held hostages for more than 10 hours Saturday inside the temple. The hostages were able to escape and the hostage taker was killed. FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno said a team would investigate
Celebrated Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee dies at 102
FILE - Tuskegee airman Charles McGee and his great grandson Iain Lanphier react as President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. McGee, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen who flew 409 fighter combat missions over three wars, died Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022. He was 102. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Pilot of crashed medical helicopter released from hospital
A medical helicopter rests next to the Drexel Hill United Methodist Church after it crashed in the Drexel Hill section of Upper Darby, Pa., on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. Authorities and a witness say a pilot crash landed a medical helicopter without casualties in a residential area of suburban Philadelphia, miraculously avoiding a web of power lines and buildings as the aircraft fluttered, hit the street and slid into bushes outside a church.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Snow, ice blast through South with powerful winter storm
A motorist leaves wiper blades exposed in anticipation of heavy snowfall in Southwest Roanoke City on Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022, in Roanoke, Va. (AP Photo/Don Petersen)
Bronx fire victims' funeral draws huge outpouring of grief
Caskets sit on the floor during the funeral service for victims from the apartment building which suffered the city's deadliest fire in three decades, at the Islamic Cultural Center for the Bronx on Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
4 young manatees flown from Florida to Ohio for treatment
Double dealing: Legal, illicit blur in California pot market
FILE - In this April 15, 2019, file photo, a vendor makes change for a marijuana customer at a cannabis marketplace in Los Angeles. An unwelcome trend is emerging in California, as the nation's most populous state enters its fifth year of broad legal marijuana sales. Industry experts say a growing number of license holders are secretly operating in the illegal market - working both sides of the economy to make ends meet. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)
'Scream' scares off 'Spider-Man' with $30.6M debut
This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Ghostface in a scene from
FBI identifies man killed after taking hostages at Texas synagogue as 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram

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