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Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is going to South Korea to improve the two country’s relations. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s office said Tuesday that the leaders will discuss further developing two-way ties and strengthening their cooperation in regional and global issues. It said Kishida’s two-day

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish police have arrested a suspect believed to have been transferring money to operatives from Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency in Turkey. The state-run news agency reported on Tuesday that the suspect, identified as Liridon Rexhepi from Kosovo, entered Turkey on Aug. 25, and was detained last Friday and formally arrested on

Associated Press HYDERABAD, India (AP) — Officials say that heavy monsoon rains and floods killed at least 33 people in southern India and five children in Pakistan over the past two days. Since June, at least 170 people have died across India’s six northeastern states due to floods and mudslides triggered by the rains. In

AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — When Jerome Powell delivered a high-profile speech last month, the Federal Reserve chair came the closest he ever had to declaring that the inflation surge that gripped the nation for three painful years was now essentially defeated. And not only that. The Fed’s high interest rates, Powell said, had

Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Ugandan athlete has been attacked and set on fire by her boyfriend and is being treated for burns on 75% of her body. Rebecca Cheptegei, who finished at the 44th position in the 2024 Paris Olympics, was attacked in her home in western Kenya. Police say Cheptegei’s boyfriend

Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is trying to get a semblance of gender parity in its new executive Commission. Instead, the member states have put forward mostly men to fill the 27 jobs in the college that runs the bloc’s day to day affairs. Ursula von der Leyen is Commission president and

Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congolese authorities say that an attempted jailbreak in the country’s main prison has left 129 people dead, including some who were shot and others who died in a stampede at the overcrowded facility. Activists alleged the death toll was higher, with one saying more than 200 were killed. Interior

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As Iran threatens to retaliate against Israel over the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, the accuracy of the Islamic Republic’s long-vaunted missile program has been called into question. A new report by experts shared exclusively with The Associated Press suggests one of the advanced

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As Iran threatens to attack Israel over the assassination of a Hamas leader in the Iranian capital, its long-vaunted missile program offers one of the few ways for Tehran to strike back directly, but questions loom over just how much of a danger it poses. The program

Associated Press ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — Ahead of her 15th birthday, Diana Zalazar’s body had gotten so big she could no longer squeeze into the dress she bought for her quinceañera to celebrate her passage into womanhood in Paraguay. Her mother sought help from a doctor, who suspected that growing inside of the 14-year-old Catholic

ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin received a red-carpet welcome to Mongolia as the country ignored calls to arrest him on an international warrant for alleged war crimes stemming from Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. His visit Tuesday was Putin’s first to a member country of the International Criminal Court since it issued the

Associated Press VENICE, Italy (AP) — Venice Film Festival regular Luca Guadagnino was back on the Lido to debut his new Daniel Craig film “Queer” on Tuesday night. A festival favorite, Guadagnino had to forgo a splashy red carpet premiere for the sexy tennis drama “Challengers” last year, when the studio delayed its release amid

SYDNEY (AP) — Two people have been rescued unharmed Tuesday after spending a night aboard a disabled yacht in the heavy seas off the Australian coast. The 60-year-old man and a 48-year-old woman were rescued at 7:30 a.m. from their 62-foot yacht. It had been abandoned 185 miles east of the New South Wales state

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A decision on whether to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in the U.S. won’t come until after the November presidential election, a timeline that raises the chances it could be a potent political issue in the closely contested race. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration last week set a

AP Film Writer After $1 billion at the box office, 11 Oscar nominations and two major wins, including for Joaquin Phoenix, it’s easy to forget the handwringing over “Joker.” In the lead up to its release in October 2019, the Todd Phillips film hit a cultural inflection point that had divisions forming before most had

Associated Press LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — After a summer of historic tumult, the path to the presidency for both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump this fall is becoming much clearer. The Democratic vice president and the Republican former president will devote almost all of their remaining time and resources to just seven states. They

Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man sitting in his van after fixing a coffee machine inside a supermarket in the college town of Boulder was the first person killed. In just over a minute, nine more people died in a barrage of gunfire inside and outside the store in 2021 as the shooter targeted

BEIJING (AP) — A bus crashed into a group of students and their parents at a school in eastern China early Tuesday, killing 11 people and injuring 13, police said. The students and parents were at the gate of a middle school in Tai’an city in the eastern province of Shandong just before 7:30 a.m.,

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Darren, a teen idol who helped ignite the 1960s surfing craze as a charismatic beach boy paired off with Sandra Dee in the hit film “Gidget,” died Monday at 88. Darren died in his sleep at a Los Angeles hospital, his son Jim Moret told news outlets. Moret