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By DAVID RISING Associated Press HANGZHOU, China (AP) — A long-standing border dispute between India and China has left three Indian martial arts competitors stranded at home and unable to make it to the Asian Games in Hangzhou while sparking a diplomatic row Friday between the two countries. The three women wushu athletes are from

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Another member of K-pop supergroup BTS has begun his mandatory military service in South Korea. Suga started serving on Friday as a social service agent, an alternative form of military service in the country. The 30-year-old is the group’s third member to start carrying out

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Parliament has approved landmark legislation that reserves one-third of the seats in its powerful lower house and in state legislatures for women to ensure more equal representation, ending a 27-year impasse over the bill amid a lack of consensus among political parties. But the wait

By TODD WALLACK AND CHRISTINE WILLMSEN, WBUR Deb Libby is running out of time to find a place to live. Libby, 56, moved to Worcester, Massachusetts, four years ago, in part to be closer to the doctors treating her for pancreatic cancer. But the landlord wants her out by the end of the month and

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — British competition regulators gave preliminary approval Friday to Microsoft’s restructured $69 billion deal to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard, easing a final global hurdle that paves the way for one of the largest tech transactions in history to go through. The Competition and Markets Authority

By AARON MORRISON AP Race and Ethnicity News Editor U.S. breaking pros who hope to compete in the Paris Olympics next year have a challenge. As ambassadors to the country where the hip-hop dance form originated, they want to preserve breaking’s focus on originality and its ties to Black and Latino culture. But as Olympians,

By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Growing up in the Boston suburbs, Suzyn Waldman fell madly in love with two things: baseball and Broadway shows. During the 1950s and ’60s, the long arm of AM radio brought both into her home. “I can still hear Ned Martin of the Red Sox

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Schools for millions of students in Nepal are closed as tens of thousands of teachers protest in the capital against an education reform bill in parliament. Teachers have been demonstrating in Kathmandu since Wednesday against the School Education Bill while teachers’ groups negotiate with government leaders

By DAVID RISING Associated Press HANGZHOU, China (AP) — In the first Asian Games since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, two teams of athletes are arriving in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, looking very different. One, sent from Afghanistan where women are now banned by the Taliban from participating in sports, consists of about

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish police say two people have been killed and two wounded in a shooting at a pub northwest of Stockholm. The shooting late Thursday night is the latest outburst of deadly violence in Sweden. Police said that a man in his 20s and another in his 70s died Friday of injuries sustained

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares in Europe were mostly lower Friday after mixed trading in Asia following a broad retreat on Wall Street driven by worries over interest rates. Germany’s DAX shed 0.3% to 15,526.55 and the CAC 40 in Paris sank 0.7% to 7,163.97. Britain’s FTSE 100 was up 0.3%, at 7,702.08.

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus has formally called on the European Union to re-evaluate which areas of Syria can be declared as safe zones that are free from armed conflict so that Syrian migrants can eventually be repatriated there. The Interior Ministry told The Associated Press on Friday that Interior

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Sudan’s army chief has warned that the war in the northeast African country could spread beyond its borders if it is not stopped. Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly, urged world leaders to designate the rival paramilitary force as a terrorist

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A prominent peace forum in Ethiopia has been postponed as clashes between the federal government and fighters from a major ethnic group continue to destabilize the region. The Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa says the annual gathering of African leaders, set for October, has

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — British competition regulators has signaled that Microsoft’s restructured $69 billion deal to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard is likely to receive antitrust approval. The Competition and Markets Authority said Friday that the revamped proposal “substantially addresses previous concerns” about stifling competition in the emerging cloud