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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British police have released four men arrested under terrorism laws by detectives investigating a homemade bomb explosion in a Liverpool taxi. Police have named the suspected bomber, who died, as 32-year-old Emad Al Swealmeen, who came to Britain as an asylum-seeker several years ago and had converted

By SAM McNEIL Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Veterans and officials from China and the United States have celebrated the 80th anniversary of the Flying Tigers, American pilots who flew for China in World War II, as a historic example of better relations and cooperation. The online event was held the day leaders of the

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Three German parties say that they hope to clinch a deal next week to form a new government. That would keep center-left leader Olaf Scholz on track to become Germany’s new leader in early December. Scholz’s Social Democrats narrowly won the country’s national election in late September.

BEAVER ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — The mother of an 11-year-old girl who was the sole survivor of a plane crash on Michigan’s Beaver Island that killed her father and three others says she believes her husband protected her from more serious injuries by holding her tightly as the plane went down. Christina Perdue says Mike

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government has asked competition regulators to investigate the national security implications of American technology company NVIDIA’s planned $40 billion takeover of British chip designer Arm Ltd. U.K. Digital Secretary Nadine Dorries asked the Competition and Markets Authority on Tuesday to look into both the deal’s impact on competition and national

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — The Qatar-based satellite news network Al-Jazeera says Sudanese authorities have released its bureau chief, two days after he was detained in the African country. The network said on Twitter that its journalist was freed on Tuesday. Sudanese security forces arrested the reporter on Sunday, following a raid on his home in

PARIS (AP) — Six Greenpeace activists have blocked a railroad in southern France in what they say is an attempt to prevent loads of reprocessed uranium from getting exported to Russia. The tracks the activists stood on Tuesday are located in the commune of Pierrelatte just outside a plant where radioactive material is processed and

HOUMA, La. (AP) — Authorities in southern Louisiana are searching for a woman who bit off part of an officer’s ear. Houma police say they were trying to break up a fight between several women in a bar’s parking lot just after midnight on Friday when one of them bit the ear of one of

By TED SHAFFREY and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — American journalist Danny Fenster, who spent nearly six months in jail in military-ruled Myanmar, has arrived in the United States. Fenster was sentenced last week to 11 years of hard labor. He was handed over Monday to former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson,

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla (AP) — A 47-year-old Florida teacher hospitalized with COVID-19 has died after her husband sued in an unsuccessful effort to get her treated with ivermectin. Tamara Drock’s husband told the Palm Beach Post that she died on Friday, 12 weeks after being admitted to Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center. Ryan Drock

BEIRUT (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister says his country is ready to offer whatever support it can to help mend relations between Lebanon and Gulf Arab nations. The unprecedented diplomatic rift with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab nations unraveled late last month and has threatened to destabilize Lebanon’s new government and escalate the country’s

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans sharply boosted their spending last month, pushing up retail sales and giving the economy a lift. Much of the gain reflected the fact that shoppers are also paying higher prices. Retail sales rose a seasonally adjusted 1.7% in October from September, the U.S. Commerce Department

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A senior American official overseeing arms exports says the U.S. remains “fully committed” to a proposed sale of advanced F-35 stealth fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates despite the Biden administration slowing down the deal. Mira Resnick of the State Department made the

By SAM McNEIL Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Veterans and officials from China and the United States have celebrated the 80th anniversary of the Flying Tigers, American pilots who flew for China in World War II, as a historic example of better relations and cooperation. The online event was held the day leaders of the

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia says it will resume allowing air travel to Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Costa Rica and Mongolia starting Dec. 1. The government coronavirus task force said Russia will also lift the remaining restrictions on flights to Cuba, Mexico and Qatar, and increase the number of flights to Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Vietnam.

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they are no longer ruling out an Islamic extremist motive in a knife attack on a train earlier this month that left four people wounded. Prosecutors in Munich said Tuesday that Islamic State group propaganda videos had been found on the suspect and that material on the 27-year-old’s Facebook

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top court says Hungary broke EU law by making it a criminal offense to help migrants apply for asylum. The ruling issued Tuesday is a new legal blow to Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s staunchly anti-migrant government. Worried by the arrival of asylum-seekers, Orban accused

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s elected public advocate Jumaane Williams is running for New York governor. The self-described activist is the most progressive candidate in next year’s increasingly crowded Democratic primary race already featuring Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James. Williams is a 45-year-old former

By KEN MORITSUGU and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China has welcomed a virtual meeting between President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden as raising hopes for better relations, while the U.S. was more muted on the talks. The video conference, which took place Tuesday morning in Beijing and Monday evening in

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A powerful commander in Libya has announced his candidacy for the country’s presidential elections next month. Khalifa Hifter submitted his candidacy papers in the eastern city of Benghazi on Tuesday and released a video about the decision. He commands the self-styled Libyan Arab Armed Forces that has