is moving to block nearly all foreign students from entering the country to attend Harvard University, his
and barely a week after a man who also yelled “Free Palestine” was charged withoutside a Jewish museum in Washington.
Golden reported from Seattle. Associated Press reporters Eric Tucker in Washington, Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Missouri, Samy Magdy in Cairo, Hannah Schoenbaum in Salt Lake City, Sean Murphy in Oklahoma City contributed to this report.TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed on Thursday, as Wall Street’slost some momentum following a pair of potentially discouraging reports on the American economy.
U.S. futures edged lower and oil prices declined.Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 shed 0.2% to 37,658.46, while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 declined nearly 0.1% to 8,535.10.
In South Korea, the Kospi jumped 2.1% to 2,829.48 after the country’s new president and leading liberal politician
began his term, vowing to restart talks with North Korea and beef up a trilateral partnership with the U.S. and Japan.The talks will also touch on “issues on the international agenda, including the situation around Ukraine,” Russian media reported, citing the Security Council’s press team. Shoigu, formerly Russia’s defense minister, last traveled to Pyongyang in late March.
In April, the Kremlin confirmed that North Korean troopsto repel a Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk border region.
At the time, Putin praisedwho he said stood “shoulder to shoulder with Russian fighters, defended our Motherland as their own.”