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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The Ethiopian prime minister’s national security adviser says the African Union has scheduled peace talks to resolve Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict for Oct. 24. The statement from the adviser on Thursday came as fighting continued between Ethiopia’s federal government troops and the authorities in Tigray. Ethiopia’s government said earlier this week

HELSINKI (AP) — Wireless and fixed-network equipment maker Nokia has reported substantially improved third-quarter profits and higher sales on the back of strong demand for 5G technology from operators. The company based in Espoo, Finland, on Thursday reported net profit of 551 million euros ($539 million) for the July-September period. That’s a 19% increase from

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A major Nigerian energy company says it can’t deliver natural gas as promised in its contracts after deadly flooding hindered its operations. That’s raising concerns about whether Africa’s largest economy can meet increased local and international demands during an energy crisis provoked by Russia’s war in

By RAF CASERT and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders were heading into a two-day summit Thursday with opposing views on whether, and how, the bloc could impose a gas price cap to contain the energy crisis fueled by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and his strategy to choke

By The Associated Press Justin Verlander and the Houston Astros got the jump on the New York Yankees again. Now they’ll try to take a 2-0 lead in the AL Championship Series when All-Star lefty Framber Valdez pitches against Yankees right-hander Luis Severino on Thursday night in Houston. It’s a day off in the NLCS,

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss hung on to power by a thread Thursday, after a senior minister quit her government with a barrage of criticism and a vote in the House of Commons descended into chaos and acrimony. A botched economic plan unveiled by the government last

By SABRA AYRES Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — When a missile struck a power station less than a mile from his apartment on the outskirts of Kyiv, Oleksander Maystrenko didn’t panic, run to a bomb shelter or consider evacuating, even though he lives close to what suddenly has become the Russian military’s main target

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says Jewish settlers stormed through a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank throwing stones at Palestinian cars and using pepper spray on troops trying to disperse the settlers. The settler rampage late Wednesday comes days after a similar incident in the same area and as Israeli-Palestinian tensions are

By VICTORIA MILKO and MARSHALL RITZEL Associated Press PENYABANGAN, Indonesia (AP) — It took a broken air conditioner for Tom Bowling to figure out — after nearly eight months of failure — how to breed the coveted pink-yellow tropical fish known as blotched anthias. Bowling, an ornamental fish breeder based in Palau, had kept the

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma is preparing to execute a man for killing his 9-month-old daughter in 2002. Fifty-seven-year-old Benjamin Cole is set to receive a lethal injection on Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Cole’s defense attorneys don’t dispute that he killed Brianna Cole by forcibly bending

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s national elections have been set for Nov. 19 amid concerns that heavy rain and floods during the year-end monsoon season may deter voters. The Election Commission announced the date Thursday and said nominations would take place Nov. 5, kicking off two weeks of official campaigning. Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Russia wants the Philippine government to honor a signed contract to purchase 16 military heavy-lift helicopters, which the administration of former President Rodrigo Duterte had cancelled due to fears of possible U.S. sanctions. Moscow’s ambassador to Manila, Marat Pavlov, told reporters Wednesday that the Philippine government

By MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer CORNVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — Strips of fabric rain like multicolored tickertape from a tree, remnants of a child’s favorite shirt or sock or pillowcase. Little medallions stamped with names of the dead twinkle in the breeze. In a grotto, the brokenhearted have clipped prayer cards to branches, left objects

By MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer CORNVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — The leader has the name of her dead baby spelled out in beads on her left wrist, and standing before her is a mother so grief-choked by her young son’s death that she flips on her side at one point in this creekside yoga class

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower on Thursday after Wall Street benchmarks fell and Japan reported a 14th straight month of monthly trade deficits due to high prices for oil and other commodities and a weakening yen. Wall Street futures were mixed while oil prices gained. Japan’s

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Gathered at a table in the Capitol in Phoenix a little less than two years ago, two Republicans and a Democrat took part in a ceremony prescribed by state law that made official Joe Biden’s 10,500-vote victory in Arizona’s 2020 presidential contest. While

By DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Investigative journalist Wang Zhi’an once exposed corruption, land seizures, and medical malpractice in China, with millions of viewers and a powerful platform: state broadcaster CCTV. Wang now lives alone in central Tokyo after being blacklisted in his homeland. His journey from on-air personality at the heart of