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By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian shares retreated Friday after rising bond market yields once again weighed on Wall Street, ending a lull in wider swings in prices during a brief respite from market moving data releases. U.S. futures edged higher and oil prices also advanced. Investors in Asia are facing

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Honda has reported that its profit jumped 34% in the July-September quarter from a year earlier as a cheap yen helped boost the Japanese automaker’s overseas strong earnings thanks to healthy demand, especially in the U.S. Honda’s profit rose to 254 billion yen, or $1.7 billion,

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An industrial robot grabbed and crushed a worker to death at a vegetable packaging plant in South Korea, police said Thursday, as they investigated whether the machine was defective or improperly designed. Police said early evidence suggests that human error was more likely to blame

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Las Vegas hotel workers union says it has reached a deal with MGM Resorts International, the largest employer on the Las Vegas Strip, on the heels of its breakthrough agreement with Caesars Entertainment. The Culinary Workers Union announced the tentative five-year agreement with MGM early

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The trial has begun for the man accused of breaking into former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home, bludgeoning her husband with a hammer and seeking to kidnap her. David DePape has pleaded not guilty to attempted kidnapping of a federal official and assault

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Western and Arab nations, international agencies and nongovernmental groups stressed the urgent need for aid for Gaza civilians at a Paris conference Thursday, held as the humanitarian crisis in the besieged territory worsens amid Israel’s massive air and ground campaign against Hamas. The gathering ended a few

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the United States has no desire to break economic ties with China. She spoke Thursday as she began two days of talks with her Chinese counterpart in San Francisco. Yellen and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng are aiming to

By ROBERT BADENDIECK Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey is marking its centennial but a brain drain is casting a shadow on the occasion. Government statistics indicate that a growing number of the young and educated are looking to move abroad in hopes of a better life, mainly in Europe. Experts say the best and

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A judge in Michigan has heard arguments Thursday on whether Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has the authority to keep Donald Trump’s name off state ballots for president. Activists sued to force Benson to keep the former president’s name off ballots. Trump’s attorneys have demanded that he be allowed on

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Charlotte Knobloch was 6 years old when she saw the synagogues of Munich burning and watched helplessly as two Nazi officers marched away a beloved friend of her father who was beaten up and bleeding on the forehead. It was Nov. 9, 1938, or Kristallnacht — the

By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who said his death sentence was based on false expert testimony has been executed for killing a man during a robbery decades ago. Brent Ray Brewer received a lethal injection Thursday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. The

By BILL BARROW and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly half of Democrats disapprove of how President Joe Biden is handling the Israel-Hamas conflict. That’s according to a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll. Taken over five days in November, the poll shows a deep divide in the Democratic Party

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidates used the third debate of the GOP primary campaign to show their support for Israel and display at least some willingness to criticize Donald Trump, the front-runner in the race. But they face an increasingly urgent task to emerge as a

By MATTHEW LEE and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States and South Korea closed ranks behind common approaches to North Korea, Russia and China, vowing to continue to support Ukraine against Russia’s invasion and boosting humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza caught in Israel’s war against Hamas. In

NEW YORK (AP) — Antonio “L.A.” Reid, the Grammy-winning music executive who influenced the career of artists including Pink, Usher and Mariah Carey, was sued by a former music executive who says he sexually assaulted her and derailed her career. Drew Dixon filed the lawsuit Wednesday in a New York federal court. Dixon, who worked

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — South Pacific leaders are heading to the stunning island of Aitutaki to discuss climate change and other regional concerns. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was among the leaders who traveled to the Cook Islands this week for the Pacific Islands Forum. The forum culminates in

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s intelligence agency has claimed responsibility for a car bombing that killed a member of the Russia-backed authority in the illegally annexed Luhansk region. Mikhail Filiponenko was a member of the local legislature and previously served as police chief. He survived a car bombing in February

By OHAD ZWIGENBERG Associated Press INSIDE THE GAZA STRIP (AP) — International journalists escorted by the Israeli military got a glimpse of the devastation wrought by nearly two weeks of heavy fighting in the northern Gaza Strip. A journalist from The Associated Press and other reporters rode on Wednesday in a windowless armored vehicle, inside

By ANDREW DALTON and KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — On Thursday, for the first time in more than six months, neither Hollywood’s actors nor its writers will be on strike. The long-awaited clearing in the industry’s stormiest season in decades comes as a deal was reached late Wednesday to end what was,

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. nuclear chief says nuclear energy must be part of the equation to tackle climate change. The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency said climate-warming hydrocarbons still supply more than 80% of the world’s energy, even after the green transition of the