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By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new study says the three-year drought that has left millions of people in Syria, Iraq and Iran with little water wouldn’t have happened without human-caused climate change. Wednesday’s study says the west Asian drought, which started in July 2020, is mostly because hotter-than-normal temperatures are evaporating the little

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook and Instagram will require political ads running on their platforms to disclose if they were created using artificial intelligence, their parent company announced on Wednesday. Under the new policy by Meta, labels acknowledging the use of AI will appear on users’ screens when they click on

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit is recalling all 950 of its cars to update software after one of them dragged a pedestrian to the side of a San Francisco street in early October. The company said in documents posted by U.S. safety regulators on Wednesday

By ACHMAD IBRAHIM and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s anti-graft court on Wednesday sentenced a former Cabinet minister to 15 years in prison after finding him guilty of corruption over the construction of mobile phone transmission towers in remote parts of the country. Johnny G. Plate, former communication and information technology

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has told a senior Chinese military official that Moscow and Beijing should expand their cooperation on military satellites and other prospective defense technologies. It was a statement that signaled increasingly close defense links between the allies. Putin spoke in televised remarks at the start of his meeting Wednesday

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister has sought to reassure at least 25,000 Afghans waiting in Pakistan for resettlement in the United States that they won’t be deported as part of his government’s widely criticized crackdown on undocumented migrants in the country. Islamabad has launched a clampdown on illegal migration,

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Twenty-five Japanese nationals suspected of involvement in a cyberscam operation based in Cambodia have been deported to Japan. A spokesperson from Cambodia’s Interior Ministry said a charter flight was arranged Wednesday by the Japanese government to transport the suspects, who were detained in September after

By MELINA WALLING Associated Press This October was the hottest on record globally, 1.7 degrees Celsius (3.1 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the pre-industrial average for the month — and the fifth straight month with such a mark in what will now almost certainly be the warmest year ever recorded. October was a whopping 0.4 degrees

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s domestic and foreign intelligence services have won a case against a Dane of Syrian origin who claimed he worked for them in Syria in 2013 and 2014 and spied on Danish jihadi fighters. Ahmed Samsam was sentenced to eight years in 2018 in Spain for fighting with the Islamic State

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The International Monetary Fund says the European Central Bank and other policymakers across Europe need to keep interest rates at current elevated levels until they’re sure inflation is under control despite sluggish growth. The Washington-based IMF says cost of underestimating inflation’s persistence could be painfully

By EILEEN NG Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — Britain’s Prince William said Wednesday that he hopes to expand his Earthshot Prize program into a global movement to bolster environmental innovators and galvanize governments to be more engaged in green sectors so that climate change would be easier to tackle. William said he foresees policy shifts

SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian court will consider overturning a woman’s convictions for killing her four children. A government inquiry reported the court review on Wednesday months after Kathlenn Folbigg was pardoned for the crimes due to new scientific evidence that the siblings had died of natural causes. Overturning Kathleen Folbigg’s convictions would end a

By MATTHEW LEE, FOSTER KLUG and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Top diplomats from the Group of Seven leading industrial democracies have called for “urgent action” to help civilians trapped in an increasingly dire situation in Gaza, including pauses in the fighting to allow aid in and people out, in announcing a unified

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A series of powerful and shallow earthquakes have shaken a sparsely populated island chain in eastern Indonesia. There are no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The U.S. Geological Survey said a magnitude 6.9 earthquake on Wednesday hit an area 211 miles southwest of Tual, a coastal town in Maluku province,

By WAFAA SHURAFA, JACK JEFFERY and LEE KEATH Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians living in the heart of Gaza’s largest city said Wednesday they could see and hear Israeli ground forces closing in from multiple directions, accelerating the exodus of thousands of civilians as food and water become scarce and urban

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a minibus explosion in the Afghan capital that killed at least seven people. The Sunni militant group said its members detonated an explosive device on the bus carrying Shiite Muslims late on Tuesday. Twenty others were wounded in the attack in Kabul’s western Shiite

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear won reelection to Kentucky’s highest office Tuesday by improving upon the path to victory he carved in his successful 2019 bid. That year, Beshear barely defeated Republican incumbent Matt Bevin, 49.2% to 48.8% — a margin of just over 5,000 votes. He did

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — She refused to ban books, many of them about racism and the experiences of LGBTQ+ people. And for that, Suzette Baker was fired as a library director in a rural county in central Texas. “I’m kind of persona non grata around here,” said Baker, who had

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping says potential risks associated with artificial intelligence are challenges that countries should deal with together. Xi’s remarks come against the backdrop of China’s rigid control of free speech on the internet while maximizing the internet’s economic benefits and social media’s propaganda contributions to the ruling Communist Party’s authoritarian

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press ATACORA, Benin (AP) — Groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State have been spreading from the vast, arid expanse south of the Sahara Desert into wealthier nations on the coast of West Africa. In the past, experts thought militants wanted to use the West African coastal states as bases