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By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Corporate chiefs and government leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump swarm into Davos, Switzerland this week, joining an elite annual meeting that promotes dialogue and economic progress — even as a domineering tone from Washington has upended the global order and billionaires have reaped trillions in

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — How do you convince a population to have more babies after generations of a policy that limited families to just one? A decade after ending China’s longtime, one-child policy, authorities are pushing a whole range of ideas and policies to try and encourage more births, ranging from

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Hackers disrupted Iranian state television satellite transmissions to air footage supporting the country’s exiled crown prince and calling on security forces to not “point your weapons at the people,” footage online showed early Monday, the latest disruption to follow nationwide protests in the country.

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam’s most important political conclave began Monday, as the ruling Communist Party convened to decide the country’s leadership and broad policy course for the next five years. About 1,588 delegates from across Vietnam gathered in the capital, Hanoi, for the National Congress, the party’s highest decision-making

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese police have detained those in charge of a steel factory in the Inner Mongolia region after an explosion killed two people and left 84 others hospitalized. A rescue team was searching for eight people who remain unaccounted for, a representative of the Baotou city Information Office said at a news conference

By SARA MELINI and MOISÉS CASTILLO Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo declared a 30-day state of siege Sunday after suspected gang members in Guatemala’s capital killed seven police officers in apparent retaliation for authorities in the country’s southwest retaking control of one of three maximum security prisons where inmates had

By JAVIER TORRES Associated Press PENCO, Chile (AP) — Wildfires raging across central and southern Chile on Sunday left at least 18 people dead, scorched thousands of acres of forest and destroyed hundreds of homes, authorities said, as the South American country swelters under a heat wave. Chilean President Gabriel Boric declared a state of