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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 higher after US holiday; BOJ stands pat

Asia shares mostly higher after US holiday; BOJ stands pat
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)
Australia has record COVID-19 deaths, hospitals under stress
Masked spectators watch first round matches on Rod Laver Arena at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Hamish Blair)
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
Hong Kong arrests 2 ex-air crew for breaking COVID-19 rules
People wearing face masks, walk past decorations on a bridge to celebrate the Lunar New Year in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. Hong Kong police arrested two former flight attendants for allegedly leaving their homes when they should have been in isolation for possible coronavirus infections, which were later confirmed. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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)

Technology

A Polish Senate commission heard the testimony of two cybersecurity experts, John Scott-Railton and Bill Marczak, senior researchers with the Citizen Lab, a research group based at the University of Toronto, in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. The researchers confirmed last month that three Polish critics of the right-wing government were hacked aggressively with Pegasus, spyware produced by Israel's NSO Group. The Senate commission seeks to shed more light on the hacking, which has shocked many in Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Polish senators question cyber experts in hacking inquiry
FILE - The logo for Amazon is displayed on a screen at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York, Friday, July 27, 2018. Amazon's British website has backed away from plans to stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in the United Kingdom. The online retailer said Monday, Jan. 17, 2022 that the change would not be implemented as planned Wednesday while talks between the two sides continue. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)
Amazon's UK site backs away from plan to stop taking Visa
FILE Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba speaks with journalists as he arrives for a round table meeting of the Eastern Partnership at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. Ukraine said Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022 that Russia was behind a cyberattack that defaced its government websites and alleged that Russia is engaged in an increasing
Ukraine says Russia behind cyberattack in 'hybrid war' move
FILE - A Tesla Supercharger station in Buford, Ga, on April 22, 2021. Tesla is turning to Mozambique for a key component in its electric car batteries in what analysts believe is a first-of-its-kind deal designed to reduce its dependence on China for graphite. Elon Musk's company signed an agreement last month with Australia's Syrah Resources, which operates one of the world's largest graphite mines in the southern African country. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)
Tesla inks deal to get key battery component outside China
Russia denies looking for pretext to invade Ukraine
In this photo provided by the Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and Croatia's Foreign Minister Gordan Grlic Radman walk together ahead of their talks in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)
UK's Johnson, and his foes, await key 'partygate' report
This undated photo issued on Jan. 13, 2022 by GOV.UK shows Sue Gray, second permanent secretary at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. Gray is a senior but previously obscure civil servant who may hold Johnson's political future in her hands. She has the job of investigating allegations that the prime minister and his staff attended lockdown-flouting parties on government property. (GOV.UK via AP)
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)
Eurogroup seeks path between high inflation, slower growth
Spain's Economy Minister Nadia Calvino, left, speaks with Luxembourg's Finance Minister Yuriko Backes, right, and European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde during a meeting of eurogroup finance ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. Euro finance chiefs hold their first meeting of 2022 in Brussels today facing a challenge that spilled over from last year: surging prices. Inflation in the 19-nation euro area has risen to a record amid an energy-market squeeze while the economic outlook for Europe has dimmed following a recovery in 2021 from the pandemic-induced recession. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Consumer News

Drone attack in Abu Dhabi claimed by Yemen's rebels kills 3
In a satellite photo by Planet Labs PBC, Abu Dhabi International Airport is seen Dec. 8, 2021. A suspected drone attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeting a key oil facility in Abu Dhabi killed three people and sparked a separate fire at Abu Dhabi's international airport on Monday, Jan. 17, 2022, police said. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
K-Way windbreaker brand taps hip new market with R&D line
Models wear creations as part of the K-Way men's Fall-Winter 2022-23 collection, unveiled during the Fashion Week in Milan, Italy, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
Turkish leader Erdogan visits Albania to boost ties
In this photo provided by Turkish Presidency, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, right, shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during their meeting in Tirana, Albania, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is visiting Albania to talk with Prime Minister Edi Rama on strengthening bilateral ties. Erdogan also visits a northwestern town of Lac where Turkey has funded the building of some 500 apartments destroyed by the 2019 earthquake in the tiny Western Balkan country. (Turkish Presidency via AP)
Polish senators question cyber experts in hacking inquiry
A Polish Senate commission heard the testimony of two cybersecurity experts, John Scott-Railton and Bill Marczak, senior researchers with the Citizen Lab, a research group based at the University of Toronto, in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. The researchers confirmed last month that three Polish critics of the right-wing government were hacked aggressively with Pegasus, spyware produced by Israel's NSO Group. The Senate commission seeks to shed more light on the hacking, which has shocked many in Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
China's Xi rejects 'Cold War mentality,' pushes cooperation
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote address for the 2022 World Economic Forum virtual session in Beijing, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. Xi called Monday for greater world cooperation against COVID-19 and pledged to send an additional 1 billion doses of vaccine to other countries, while urging other powers to discard a
Ex-Guinean President Conde flown abroad for medical care
Chan, Zuckerberg fighting Native American vaccine hesitancy
In this photo provided by the American Indian Child Resource Center, Native American children dance while wearing masks at a powwow hosted by the American Indian Child Resource Center featuring traditional Native American music and dancing, along with the chance to get COVID-19 vaccinations and testing, on Dec. 4, 2021, at La Escuelita Elementary School, in Oakland, Calif. (Garrett Rich/American Indian Child Resource Center via AP)
Credit Suisse chairman resigns after internal investigation
FILE - Then Abbey Bank's chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio waits for his car to arrive after giving evidence to the Treasury Select Committee of British lawmakers at the Palace of Westminster in London, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2009. Credit Suisse says its chairman Antonio Horta-Osorio has resigned following an internal probe that reportedly turned up that he had violated quarantine rules intended to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The resignation of Horta-Osorio, a British-Portuguese national who took the job barely eight months ago, was announced shortly after midnight Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
EU chief scraps meetings because driver is COVID-19 positive
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen prepares to make a statement, regarding the death of European Parliament President David Sassoli, at EU headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022. David Sassoli, the Italian journalist who worked his way up in politics and became president of the European Union's parliament, died at a hospital in Italy early Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022 his spokesperson said. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, Pool)

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