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By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A massive health care strike over wages and staffing shortages headed into its final day on Friday without a deal between industry giant Kaiser Permanente and the unions representing the 75,000 workers who picketed this week. The three-day strike carried out in multiple states will officially

By JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer Days after his playing career ended, Adam Wainwright is dealing with a pressing issue. A cute, fluffy one. Louie, a Lagotto Romagnolo puppy that was gifted to Wainwright by the St. Louis Cardinals — his only major league team — is at the center of a running family argument.

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer HANGZHOU, China (AP) — Breakdancing is part of a minor sports revolution going on in Mongolia. The giant landlocked Asian country is most associated with Genghis Khan and famous for its “three manly sports” of archery, horse racing and wrestling. The two-week Asian Games offer a glimpse at a

By JON GAMBRELL, JOHN LEICESTER and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of her tireless campaigning for women’s rights and democracy, and against the death penalty. Mohammadi, 51, has kept up her activism despite numerous arrests by Iranian authorities and spending years behind

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares mostly rose Friday in cautious trading ahead of an update on the U.S. jobs market. Tokyo was the only major market to decline, with other benchmarks moderately higher. U.S. futures and oil prices were little changed. Markets in China were closed for a holiday.

By ASHOK SHARMA and SIBI ARASU Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Hundreds of rescuers dug through slushy debris and fast-flowing, icy water Friday in a search for survivors after a glacial lake overflowed and burst through a dam in India’s Himalayan north, a disaster that many had warned was possible for years. The flood

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The U.N Human Rights Commission on South Sudan has accused the country’s National Security Service (NSS) of threatening media and civil society and undermining prospects for a democratic transition ahead of next year’s elections. A new report based on the Commission’s independent investigations in 2023

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian missile strike killed a 10-year-old boy and injured two dozen other people Friday in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, officials said, a day after a strike in the same region killed at least 51 civilians in one of the deadliest attacks in the

MOSCOW (AP) — The speaker of the Russian parliament says lawmakers will consider revoking the ratification of a global nuclear test ban. Friday’s statement follows President Vladimir Putin’s warning a day earlier that Moscow could consider rescinding ratification of the pact since the United States has never ratified it. There are widespread concerns that Russia

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A dozen state or county agencies have parted ways with tens of thousands of dollars in federal grants meant to help monitor teenagers’ sexual behaviors and try to lower rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. The withdrawals reflect a shift in many states

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Assocaited Press TOKYO (AP) — Three bears that snuck into a tatami mat factory and were holed up inside for nearly a day have been captured. Authorities in the town of Misato in the northern prefecture of Akita said the bears were captured in a cage and killed. The region is dealing

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s main opposition Labour Party has won an emphatic victory in a special election for a Scottish district that was watched as an indicator of the party’s rebounding popularity ahead of a national election next year. Labour took the parliamentary seat near Glasgow from the Scottish National

OSLO (AP) — The winner of the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize is being announced Friday, chosen by a panel of experts in Norway from a list of just over 350 nominations. Last year’s prize was won by human rights activists from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, in what was seen as a strong rebuke to Russian