HONG KONG (AP) — China’s passenger car exports in the first eight months of this year already surpassed last year's total, an industry association said Thursday, though domestic sales continued to decline. Passenger car exports in August jumped 67. 1% from the year before to around 890,000 by...

BANGKOK (AP) — Shares in Europe and Asia were mostly lower Thursday following a retreat on Wall Street as the price of crude oil again traded above $100 a barrel. The future for the S&P 500 rose 0. 2% and that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0. 4%. In Germany, the DAX fell 0. 2% to 0...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s National Intelligence Service says it is trying to determine if North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has a son, while the spy agency maintains Kim's teenage daughter is his likely heir. The NIS said in a statement Thursday that even if a son exists, he is not...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in Canada on Thursday for talks with Prime Minister Mark Carney, his latest international trip aimed at locking in future support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion. Ukraine is under pressure from Russia’s air war, which is using and to...

MEMPAWAH, Indonesia (AP) — A Japanese military transport ship docked on the island of Borneo on Thursday as part of a disaster relief mission to help fight wildfires in Indonesia that are causing a toxic haze impacting people’s health in other countries. Japan deployed 300 crew members, ship a...