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By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon on Friday announced it has agreed to acquire the vacuum cleaner maker iRobot for approximately $1.7 billion, scooping up another company to add to its collection of smart home appliances amid broader concerns about its market power. iRobot sells its products worldwide and is

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Police and rescue workers say 14 people were killed and dozens badly injured when a fire broke out at a crowded music pub in eastern Thailand. At least a dozen people are in critical condition, with severe burns covering much of their bodies. Videos on social media

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks in the U.S. fell in premarket trading after a hotter-than-expected report on hiring suggested the Federal Reserve will have to stay aggressive in its efforts to fight inflation. Futures on the S&P 500 fell 1% after being slightly higher just before the Labor Department released its latest employment figures, which

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is visiting Russia for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. They’re expected to focus on a grain deal brokered by Turkey, prospects for talks on ending hostilities in Ukraine and the situation in Syria. Last month, Turkey and the

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Defying anxiety about a possible recession and raging inflation, America’s employers added a stunning 528,000 jobs last month, restoring all the jobs lost in the coronavirus recession. Unemployment fell to 3.5%, lowest since the pandemic struck in early 2020. July’s job creation was up from 398,000

By ARIEL SCHALIT Associated Press KIBBUTZ YAD MORDECHAI, Israel (AP) — A couple of hundred Israelis have protested near the Gaza Strip to demand the return of a captive and the remains of two soldiers held by the territory’s militant Hamas rulers. Friday’s protest came amid heightened tensions following the arrest of a senior Palestinian

NEW YORK (AP) — Children’s author Angeline Boulley will soon return her many readers to the world of her prize-winning debut novel “Firekeeper’s Daughter.” Henry Holt Books for Young Readers announced Friday that Boulley’s “Warrior Girl Unearthed” will come out May 2023. Like its predecessor, “Warrior Girl Unearthed” will be set in an Ojibwe community,

GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — Police have arrested several people in a large SUV that drove through a Native American parade in New Mexico, causing multiple injuries. Two Gallup police officers are among those hurt. The Albuquerque Journal reported that State Police Lt. Mark Soriano said no one was killed. New Mexico State Police tweeted that

BERLIN (AP) — Officials in Germany say fire accompanied by explosions at a police ammunition depot in a Berlin forest is contained. The head of the German capital’s fire department said large parts of the fire were extinguished on Friday but that experts were evaluating whether the ammunition stored at the facility needs to be

PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne warned that France is facing the “most severe drought” ever recorded in the country and announced the activation of a government crisis unit. Borne said in a written statement on Friday that many areas in France are going through a “historic situation” as the country endures its

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin said Friday that it’s open to talking about a possible prisoner exchange involving American basketball star Brittney Griner but strongly warned Washington against publicizing the issue. Griner, a two-time U.S. Olympic champion and an eight-time all-star with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, has been detained in

MADRID (AP) — Spain has reported its first two deaths from acute hepatitis, or liver inflammation, among children. The illness, whose causes are unknown, is being monitored by world health officials following an alert to the World Health Organization of a spike in cases in Britain in April. The ministry says 46 cases have been

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The Catholic Church in Portugal says the archbishop of Lisbon has met with Pope Francis in a private audience at the Vatican to discuss “events in recent weeks that have marked the life of the Church in Portugal.” The two-sentence communique gave no further details, and

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The American job market has defied raging inflation, rising interest rates, growing recession fears. Month after month, U.S. employers just kept adding hundreds of thousands of workers, at a pace that regularly exceeded the expectations of most economists. Yet cracks have begun to appear in one

Associated Press Elon Musk accused Twitter of fraud in a countersuit over his aborted $44 billion deal for the social media company, which he said held back necessary information and misled his team about its true user base, according to media reports. According to The Washington Post, the countersuit filed by the billionaire and Tesla

LONDON (AP) — A British court has rejected a request from the parents of a comatose boy to allow them to move their son to a hospice when hospital doctors withdraw his life-support treatment. Barring any further legal action, the decision would open the door for doctors at the Royal London Hospital to end life-sustaining

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Representatives of Dutch farmers are meeting with Prime Minister Mark Rutte and other Cabinet ministers to discuss the government’s nitrogen emissions reduction goals that have sparked disruptive protests in recent weeks. But the prospect of a breakthrough appeared slim Friday, with two main activist farmers’ organizations demanding concessions and not

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, ZEKE MILLER and DAVID RISING Associate Press WASHINGTON (AP) — China says it is canceling or suspending dialogue with the U.S. on a range of issues from climate change to military relations and anti-narcotics efforts in retaliation for a visit this week to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The measures

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis heeded the call of an influential Shiite cleric to gather in a show of strength for a mass prayer in the heart of Baghdad’s government zone on Friday. The gathering took place amid an escalating political crisis that has put the country’s

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook owner Meta is quietly curtailing some of the safeguards designed to thwart voting misinformation or foreign interference in U.S. elections as the November midterm vote approaches. It’s a sharp departure from the social media giant’s multibillion-dollar efforts to enhance the accuracy of posts about U.S. elections