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China’s health ministry says a surge in respiratory illnesses across the country that has drawn the attention of the World Health Organization is caused by the flu and other known pathogens and not by a novel virus.

The World Health Organization says it has made an official request to China for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has accused Israel of war crimes and genocide in Gaza during a virtual meeting of leaders of developing countries including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping.

China has reported its economic growth showed more signs of rekindling in October as retail sales and factory output picked up even though the property sector remained sluggish.

Shoppers in China have been tightening their purse strings, raising questions over how faltering consumer confidence may affect the annual Singles’ Day online retail extravaganza.

Nearly 40 artists from China have been spending the past month chiseling away at ice blocks at Gaylord Palms Resort in Kissimmee. It’s all part of an attraction featuring the Peanuts gang.

As China's navy grows and its land-based missile systems expand, the United States is reworking its strategy in the Indo-Pacific, particularly as it relates to the defense of Taiwan.

Shares are meandering in Asia after a another mixed close as Wall Street recalibrates following recent big swings.

Fresh from a whirlwind tour of the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has shifted his intense diplomacy on the Israel-Hamas war to Asia.

The Philadelphia Orchestra has returned to Beijing for a tour that will mark 50 years since its historic performance in China, the latest sign of improving ties between the two countries ahead of a highly anticipated meeting between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping.

The U.N. Security Council has once again failed to agree on a resolution about the Israel-Hamas war.

Long before “Friends” made its official debut in China, the show was a word-of-mouth phenomenon in the country.

President Joe Biden is trying to increase trade with Latin America.

Eight-time Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi evidently won’t be playing in China this month after all.

The monthly number of Chinese migrants crossing through Panama's Darién Gap jungle has risen this year as more people from the world's most populous country look to immigrate to the U.S. The number has risen from 913 in January to 2,588 in September.

China’s foreign minister says the road to an expected meeting between President Xi Jinping and U_S_ President Joe Biden would not be “smooth sailing."

Stellantis says it plans to invest about 1.5 billion euros, or about $1.6 billion, in Leapmotor, a Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer.

Advocates and Nebraska lawmakers are defending a reporter after Gov_ Jim Pillen said her story about environmental concerns at his farms wasn’t worth discussing because the reporter was from “communist China.”.

An International Atomic Energy Agency team is in Fukushima for the agency's first marine sampling since treated radioactive wastewater started being released from the area's damaged nuclear plant into the sea.

Australian journalist Cheng Lei says she spent more than three years in detention in China for breaking an embargo with a television broadcast.

Chinese automakers are winning over drivers as they make major inroads into Europe’s electric vehicle market.

The Pentagon has released footage of some of the more than 180 intercepts of U.S. warplanes by Chinese aircraft that have occurred in the last two years — more than the total amount over the previous decade and part of a trend U.S. military officials called concerning.

Lionel Messi is evidently going back to China, after Inter Miami took advantage of not making the Major League Soccer playoffs by signing a deal to play two exhibitions there next month.

IOC president Thomas Bach has been urged by its members to change Olympic rules on term limits and seek four more years as president.

Shares are higher in Asia, tracking Wall Street gains following an easing of pressure from the bond market.

Russia has been defeated in its bid to regain a seat in the United Nations premiere human rights body by a significant majority in an election in the General Assembly, which voted last year to suspend Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has said peace with China is the “only option,” while strongly asserting the self-governing island's defenses.

A typhoon is heading toward southern China and Hong Kong after bringing record-breaking winds and leaving one dead in Taiwan.

Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant says it has begun releasing a second batch of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea after the first round of discharges ended smoothly.

A new study finds that far more people are in harm's way as they move into high flood zones around the world.

Japanese Agriculture Minister Ichiro Miyashita says Tokyo hopes to resolve the issue of Chinese ban on its seafood within the World Trade Organization's scope.

Oksana Chusovitina competed in her first Olympics at the 1992 Barcelona Games and won a gold medal in gymnastics.

South Korea’s League of Legends team beat Taiwan at the Asian Games despite being without its star player.

A 13-year-old girl from China has won a gold medal in stakeboarding at the Asian Games.

Shares in Asia are mostly higher, shrugging off a sharp decline on Wall Street that took benchmarks back to where they were in June.

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The Asian Games offer a preview of what could soon be coming to the Olympics.

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on seven people and four companies in China, Russia and Turkey who officials allege are connected with the development of Iran’s drone program.

Foreign companies operating in China say tensions with Washington over technology, trade and other issues and uncertainty over Chinese policies are damaging the business environment and causing some to reassess their plans for investing in the giant market.

The United Auto Workers strike has exposed tensions between President Joe Biden's goals of fighting climate change and supporting unions.

A four-year absence of elite women’s tennis in China is set to end with the Women’s Tennis Association holding seven tournaments in the next six weeks as part of the tour’s Asian swing.

A human rights lawyer who was arrested in Laos has been deported back to China despite pleas from rights groups and United Nations experts for his release.

Rainstorms battering southern China have killed at least seven people and allowed dozens of crocodiles to escape from a farm.

Xinyu Wen traveled to Thailand in June, planning a two-week vacation around Bangkok’s Pride parade.

Thousands of soldiers from the United States, Indonesia, Australia and other allied forces demonstrated their armor capabilities in combat drills on the Indonesian island of Java at a time of increased Chinese aggression in the region.

Ruixin Liu is the leader after one round of the Kroger Queen City Championship on the LPGA Tour.

Australia and China have started their first high-level dialogue in three years in a sign of a slight thaw to relations between countries that have clashed on human rights, COVID-19 and trade.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says his country is “becoming the voice of the Global South."

A Nigerian environmental activist has declared at the first African Climate Summit that carbon markets are “bogus solutions."

Most of Hong Kong and other parts of southern China have ground to a near standstill as powerful Typhoon Saola passes westward along the coast.

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel has visited a city in Fukushima, where he ate a seafood lunch with the mayor, talked to fishermen and stocked up on local produce to show they are safe after the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea.

Typhoon Saola has strengthened overnight as it continues its path across the Pacific and heads for China’s southern coast.

After receiving two bids to acquire it in the past month, U.S. Steel has told its shareholders that it is in the process of reviewing multiple offers for the storied company and symbol of American industrialization.

South Sudan is the world’s youngest nation, only gaining its independence 12 years ago.

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Taiwan’s vice president and front-runner in upcoming presidential elections has accused China of employing unfair trade practices that could be used to influence the voting.

The Dominican Republic is getting back on its feet after Tropical Storm Franklin struck the island nation, causing heavy flooding that killed at least two people and knocked out power and water to hundreds of thousands.

Across the developing world, many countries are fed up with America’s dominance of the global financial system — and especially the power of the dollar.

Patrick Hamilton, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who covered civil wars in Central America as a photojournalist for The Associated Press,and later worked at Reuters covering the first Gulf War in Iraq, has died after a long struggle with cancer.

Intel is terminating a $5.4 billion agreement to acquire Israeli chip manufacturer Tower Semiconductor after China failed to sign off on the deal amid deteriorating US-China relations.

Chinese and Indian military commanders have pledged to “maintain the peace and tranquility” along their disputed border in an apparent effort to stabilize the situation following a rise in tensions.

United States Steel Corp. seems poised to be soon purchased by a competitor, with two bidders revealed in a matter of days and more in the wings.

A vast swath of northeastern China is threatened by flooding as at least 90 rivers have risen above warning levels and 24 have already overflowed their banks.

Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in China’s southwest after heavy rain caused hillsides to collapse.

China's national security authority says it has detained a worker from a military industrial group on suspicion of spying for the CIA.

The death toll from recent flooding in China's capital has risen to 33, including five rescuers, and another 18 people are missing.

China's exports tumbled by double digits in July, adding to pressure on the ruling Communist Party to reverse an economic slump.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he has high hopes to discuss further strengthening of three-way strategic cooperation with the United States and South Korea at a summit hosted by President Joe Biden at Camp David later this month.

China is lifting a stifling 3-year-old tariff on Australian barley in a sign of an improving bilateral trade relationship since Australia’s government changed.

Heavy rain and high water levels in China's northeastern rivers are threatening cities downstream, prompting the evacuation of thousands.

China’s internet watchdog has laid out regulations to curb the amount of time children spend on their smartphones, in the latest blow to firms such as Tencent and ByteDance, which run social media platforms and online games.

A typhoon that damaged homes and knocked out power on Okinawa and other southern Japanese islands this week is slowly moving west but is forecast to make a U-turn and dump even more rain on the archipelago.

Taiwan has detained an army officer and several collaborators on suspicion of handing military secrets to China.

Starbucks reported record revenue in its fiscal third quarter as sales in China roared back to life.

Typhoon Doksuri weakened into a tropical storm late night Friday after bringing heavy rain and winds that left more than a million people without power in southern China.

Typhoon Doksuri has made landfall in China after bringing deadly landslides to the Philippines.

French magistrates are investigating a leading chip supplier whose advanced technology with possible military uses was reportedly smuggled to China and Russia, allegedly skirting sanctions and export controls.

Katie Robinson knows England left many unimpressed with its underwhelming 1-0 victory against overmatched Haiti in its opening match at the Women’s World Cup.

The wife and daughter of exiled Chinese dissident Gao Zhi are in detention on immigration charges in Thailand, after a series of bomb threats made in their names against airports, luxury hotels and the Chinese embassy in Bangkok derailed the family’s plan to join Gao in the Netherlands.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting the tiny kingdom of Tonga as the United States continues to increase its diplomatic efforts in the Pacific while China’s influence in the region grows.

The first panda ever born in France bid farewell to the French zoo where it grew up and set off Tuesday for its new home in China.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Tonga, New Zealand and Australia next week as the Biden administration shifts its Indo-Pacific strategy into overdrive in part to counter China’s growing influence in the region.

The head of Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency says British spies are already using artificial intelligence to hamper the supply of weapons to Russia.

A lawyer representing Chinese citizens in Florida has told a federal judge that a new law banning them and some other foreign nationals from purchasing property in large swaths of the state violates federal housing discrimination laws.

An unusual find in China suggests some early mammals may have hunted dinosaur for dinner.

Linn Grant missed a chance to become the second LPGA Tour player to break 60.

The highest-ranking U.S. military officer is praising Japan's moves to double its defense spending over the next five years.

North Korea’s U.N. ambassador has defended his country’s recent long-range missile launch in a rare appearance at the U.N. Security Council.

The United Nations Security Council's failure to renew the critical flow of international aid from Turkey into opposition-held northwestern Syria has rattled Syrians and social workers.

Italian luxury brand Bulgari is the latest international brand to apologize to China after listing Taiwan as a country on its website.

Employers across much of China have been ordered to limit outdoor work due to scorching temperatures, while areas in the east and southwest have been warned to prepare for torrential rain.

China is insisting it is up to the U.S. to “create necessary conditions” for anti-drugs cooperation, following complaints from Washington that Beijing is ignoring its calls for a crackdown on precursor chemicals for the highly addictive painkiller fentanyl.

Pope Francis travels to the periphery of Roman Catholicism this summer when he becomes the first pontiff to visit Mongolia.

China says 239 people died from COVID-19 in June in a significant uptick months after it lifted most containment measures.

A human rights advocacy group says it found allegations of dozens of labor and environmental abuses by Chinese-invested companies involved in mining or processing minerals used in renewable energy.

Authorities say floods have killed 15 people in southwestern China as seasonal torrents hit mountain areas.

Flooding has displaced thousands of people around China as the capital had a relative respite from a sweltering heat wave.

The Dutch government says companies that produce machines that make advanced semiconductor processor chips will be required to have export licenses before they can sell them overseas starting in September.

The Associated Press has found that the Food and Drug Administration can't keep up with a flood of illegal disposable e-cigarettes from China.

The United States has Air Force One.