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By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asia stocks pulled back on Monday as worries about potentially escalating tensions in the Middle East rattled financial markets, pushing investors to look for safer places for their money. U.S. futures rose and oil prices fell despite tensions roiling the Middle East where an attack late

TANA TORAJA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian officials said a search and rescue team had found 18 people killed by landslides on Sulawesi island and are still looking for two missing. 14 bodies were found by rescuers on Sunday afternoon in Makale village and four in South Makale. Rescuers are still looking for two more victims,

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government are increasingly wielding strong-arm tactics to subdue political opponents and critics of the ruling Hindu-nationalist party ahead of the nationwide elections that begin this week. A decade into power, and on the cusp of securing

By THEODORA TONGAS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — No one knows what music in ancient Greece sounded like or how dancers once moved. Every two years, a new interpretation of the ancient performance gets a global audience. It takes place in southern Greece at a site many still consider sacred:

By KEN MILLER Associated Press A judge in Texas is set to hear arguments Monday in rap star Travis Scott’s request to be dismissed from a lawsuit over the deadly 2021 Astroworld festival in Houston. Scott headlined the concert during which 10 people were killed as authorities and festival organizers responded to a massive crowd

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia holds an early parliamentary election Wednesday following a campaign that was marked by heated exchanges between the country’s two top officials. The ballot pits the ruling conservative Croatian Democratic Union, or HDZ, led by acting Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic against an alliance of centrist and

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A movie weapons supervisor is facing up to 18 months in prison for the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust,” with her sentencing scheduled for Monday in a New Mexico state court. Movie armorer Hannah

By MATTHEW LEE and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to host Iraq’s leader this week for talks that come as tensions across the Middle East have soared over the war in Gaza and Iran’s unprecedented weekend attack on Israel in retaliation for an Israeli military strike against an

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press As Union and Confederate armies clashed in a bloody fourth year of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln tasked one man to create the legal code for Arizona, almost 50 years before the territory became a state. New York judge William Thompson Howell wrote 500 pages that spanned provisions on

By The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include Taylor Swift’s eagerly anticipated album “The Tortured Poets Department,” a family of ducks is coaxed into flying south for the winter in the kid-friendly animated movie “Migration” and Conan O’Brien makes himself the brunt of jokes in his new travel show “Conan O’Brien Must

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Nearly 970 million people are eligible to vote in India’s national elections that start Friday and will be held in phases until June 1. The sheer size of India’s population and the logistics of ensuring every voter can cast a ballot make for a daunting task.

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — London-based model Alexsandrah has a twin, but not in the way you’d expect: Her counterpart is made of pixels instead of flesh and blood. The virtual twin was generated by artificial intelligence and has already appeared as a stand-in for the real-life Alexsandrah in a photo shoot.