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By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An estimated 400 Rohingya Muslims believed to be aboard two boats adrift in the Andaman Sea without adequate supplies could die if more is not done to rescue them, according to the U.N. refugee agency and aid workers. The number of Rohingya Muslims fleeing by boats in

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Freezing rain and cold weather buffeting Germany have been blamed for traffic accidents that left three dead while Munich Airport temporarily suspended flights. Police say one student was killed in a crash involving a school bus in the Erzgebirge mountains in the eastern German state of Saxony.

By WAFAA SHURAFA, JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel said Tuesday that its troops had entered Gaza’s second-largest city as intensified bombardment sent streams of ambulances and cars racing to hospitals with wounded and dead Palestinians, including children, in a bloody new phase of the war. The

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares advanced on Wednesday after most stocks slipped on Wall Street following a mixed set of reports on the U.S. economy. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gained 0.5% to 16,413.96 while the Shanghai Composite edged 0.1% higher, to 2,968.75. The gains followed selloffs the day before

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Nations weather agency is reporting that glaciers shrank more than ever from 2011 and 2020 and the Antarctic ice sheet lost 75 percent more compared to the previous ten years, as it released its latest stark report about the fallout on the

By STEPHEN WADE and YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The bid-rigging trial around the Tokyo Olympics is playing out in a Japanese courtroom — more than two years after the Games closed — with advertising giant Dentsu and five other companies facing criminal charges. Seven individuals are also facing charges from the Tokyo

By FU TING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Comedian Xi Diao says he knows he should avoid talking politics on stage, but sharing a family name with Chinese President Xi Jinping makes it hard to resist. Even his name is politically sensitive, the Melbourne-based amateur comedian tells audiences, setting up a joke about a group

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry was unfairly stripped of his publicly funded security detail after giving up his status as a working member of the royal family and moving to the U.S., his lawyer said in court Tuesday. The Duke of Sussex wants protection while visiting the U.K. and claims

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BCHARRE, Lebanon (AP) — Majestic cedar trees towered over dozens of Lebanese Christians gathered outside a small mid-19th century chapel hidden in a mountain forest to celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration, the miracle where Jesus Christ, on a mountaintop, shined with light before his disciples. The sunset’s yellow light

HILO, Hawaii (AP) — A magnitude 5.1 earthquake on the Big Island of Hawaii was felt widely but there have been no reports of damage or injury. The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory says the earthquake hit at 5:54 p.m. Monday near the Kilauea volcano. Officials say the initial quake and a magnitude 3.0 aftershock were not

BANGKOK (AP) — A bus has crashed in western Thailand, killing 14 people and injuring more than 30 others. Officials said the accident occurred early Tuesday in Prachuap Khiri Khan province as the bus was traveling from the capital, Bangkok, to Songkhla province in the deep south. It was carrying 49 people when it ran

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities say a roadside bomb went off near a school in the country’s northwest on Tuesday, wounding at least three passersby and damaging windows of a nearby bank and several shops The bombing happened in the commercial center of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, a spokesman

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press KHAVDA, India (AP) — Shifting to renewable energy is a key issue at the ongoing COP28 climate summit. Some leaders have voiced support for a target of tripling renewable energy worldwide in any final agreement while curbing use of coal, oil and natural gas, which spew planet-warming gases into the

By LORI HINNANT and SAM McNEIL Associated Press NIR OZ, Israel (AP) — The Hamas attack on the kibbutz of Nir Oz started a little after 6:30 a.m. on Oct. 7 and lasted long into the afternoon, with dozens of fighters rampaging unopposed through the community with an apparent mission: To capture as many civilians

By SETH BORENSTEIN and SIBI ARASU Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — After days of shaving off the edges of key warming issues, climate negotiators Tuesday zeroed in on the tough job of dealing with the main cause of what’s overheating the planet: fossil fuels. As scientists, activists and United Nations officials repeatedly

By LORI HINNANT and SAM McNEIL Associated Press NIR OZ, Israel (AP) — The engineer and his family cowered in the safe room, dark except for a red remote-control light because they feared the gunmen outside the door would notice anything brighter. Eyal Barad had just reconfigured the settings on a homemade traffic camera from

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Tech leaders have been vocal proponents of the need to regulate artificial intelligence, but they’re also lobbying hard to make sure the new rules work in their favor. That’s not to say they all want the same thing. Facebook parent Meta and IBM on Tuesday launched a new group

By JESSE BEDAYN and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press/Report for America COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Relatives who knew or feared their loved ones were among the 190 abandoned bodies found decomposing in a Colorado funeral home watched in person for the first time as the owners of the business appeared before a judge. Jon and

By JOVANA GEC, SABINA NIKSIC and ZANA CIMILI Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A man in Bosnia killed his wife and streamed the murder live on Instagram. In neighboring Serbia, 27 women were killed in gender-based attacks this year, despite efforts to raise awareness and reverse the trend. Activists in Kosovo say violence against

By ANNIE MA of The Associated Press and MEREDITH KOLODNER of The Hechinger Report SALISBURY, Md. (AP) — Three times a week, on average, a police car pulls up to a school in Wicomico County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. A student is brought out, handcuffed and placed inside for transport to a hospital emergency room