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By REZA SAIFULLAH and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled Myanmar to escape a brutal counterinsurgency campaign are struggling to find a country that would accept them. Muhammad Amin arrived in Indonesia with over 300 others and has been relocated five times with his young family in

BERLIN (AP) — Oscar-winning actor Lupita Nyong’o will head the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in February. The 2024 Berlinale will run from Feb. 15-25. It will be the last edition under the current leadership duo of executive director Mariette Rissenbeek and artistic director Carlo Chatrian. The directors said Monday that Nyong’o “embodies

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — All top-flight soccer matches in Greece will be played without fans in the stadiums for the next two months, in the latest crackdown on supporter violence following a sport-related riot last week that left a police officer with life-threatening injuries. The government said it would introduce

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Dozens of attacks on U.S. military facilities by Iran-backed factions in Iraq over the past two months as the Israel-Hamas war has raged have forced Baghdad into a balancing act that’s becoming more difficult by the day. A rocket attack on the sprawling U.S.

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet We often talk about 401(k)s and 403(b)s as if they’re the same, but they’re not. While both can help you save for retirement, 403(b)s have fewer consumer protections and can be a bad deal for the people — often teachers — they’re supposed to serve. If your employer offers a

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Thousands of protesters are expected to gather in Brussels on Tuesday to protest what they perceive as new austerity measures as the 27 European Union countries discuss ways to overhaul rules on government spending. Finance ministers from the bloc have been negotiating for months a reform of

BERLIN (AP) — The Austrian interior minister says a 16-year-old teenager has been arrested for allegedly planning to attack a synagogue in Vienna. Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said Monday that the teenager who was arrested Thursday had announced in online chats that he intended to procure a weapon to attack an unspecified synagogue in Vienna.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish authorities say that five people have been seriously injured after a construction site elevator plunged to the ground in Stockholm. Further details about their injuries weren’t immediately available. The elevator plummeted 20 meters or 66 feet on Monday in Sundbyberg to the north of Sweden’s capital. Police said that no

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Reporter WASHINGTON (AP) — With inflation edging closer to the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, its policymakers are facing — and in some cases fueling — hopes that they will make a decisive shift in policy and cut interest rates next year, possibly as soon as spring. Such a move would

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Pressure is mounting on Hungary not to veto the start of European Union membership talks and the supply of economic aid to Ukraine at a pivotal EU summit this week. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban wants the issue to be struck from the agenda. Ukraine is desperate

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is announcing the first allocation of incentives from last year’s bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act. It will provide $35 million to BAE Systems to increase production at a New Hampshire factory making computer chips for military aircrafts. The aircrafts include F-15 and F-35 jets.

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press Renowned Chinese doctor and activist Gao Yaojie who exposed the AIDS virus epidemic in rural China in the 1990s, has died at the age of 95 at her home in the United States. Gao’s outspokenness about the virus outbreak embarrassed the Chinese government and drove her to live in self-exile

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces one of the toughest weeks of his 13 months in office. Sunak was grilled by lawyers at a public inquiry on Monday about his decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. He denied taking risks with public health during the pandemic. Sunak was

BERLIN (AP) — Police say two people have been killed and one was wounded when a gunman fired shots at two locations in a southern Swiss town. Authorities were alerted to a wounded person in a parking lot in Sion, the capital of Valais canton on Monday morning. They found a woman with a fatal

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Donald Tusk, a leader of a centrist party, returned as Poland’s prime minister for the first time in nearly a decade after a vote in parliament on Monday, paving the way for a new pro-European Union government following eight years of stormy national conservative rule. Tusk,

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — The  U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization says that hunger remains a chronic problem in Asia. A report issued Monday shows 55 million more people were undernourished in 2022 than before the COVID-19 pandemic. Progress has stagnated as the pandemic reversed a longstanding trend beginning in the

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Eleven informal miners have been confirmed dead and their bodies recovered from an open-pit copper mine in Zambia after landslides buried them as they were digging tunnels last month. One survivor has been found but up to 26 other people remain missing and are feared dead nearly two weeks after the

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Ministry of Defense is transferring two minehunting ships to Ukraine as part of a package of long-term support to bolster security in the Black Sea. The transfer comes as Britain and Norway announce plans for a new maritime coalition to increase support for Ukraine in the war with Russia. The coalition

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has met with his Vietnamese counterpart on an official visit to boost relations between the neighboring Southeast Asian countries. Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Hun Manet attended a welcome ceremony in the capital, Hanoi, where they reviewed an honor guard before holding talks and

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptians have resumed voting in a presidential election in which President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi faces no serious challenger and is certain to win another term. That will keep him in power until 2030. Polling centers are open on Monday, the second day of the three-day vote. A runoff is scheduled for Jan.