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LONDON (AP) — The English Football Association says it will pay tribute to the Israeli and Palestinian victims of the war in the Middle East when England hosts Australia in a friendly match at Wembley Stadium. Plans do not include lighting up the national stadium’s iconic arch in the colors of Israel’s flag. The FA

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press Eviatar Moshe Kipnis and Lilach Lea Havron are among the estimated 150 people believed held by Hamas in Gaza. The couple were with their health care aide. Their son, Nadav Kipnis, told The Associated Press that in addition to the couple and their aide, eight members of Havron’s family —

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) — Paul Lane uses his mouth, cheek and chin to push buttons and guide his virtual car around the “Gran Turismo” racetrack on the PlayStation 5. It’s how he’s been playing for the past 23 years, after a car accident left him unable to use

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of Social Security recipients will get a 3.2% increase in their benefits in 2024, far less than this year’s historic boost and reflecting moderating consumer prices. The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, means the average recipient will receive more than $50 more every month beginning in January,

LONDON (AP) — A British judge has ruled in favor of Richard Branson’s Virgin group in its lawsuit against a U.S. train company over a licensing agreement. Judge Mark Pelling ruled in favor of Virgin Enterprises, which had sued Florida passenger train operator Brightline Holdings for breaching an agreement to rebrand as Virgin Trains USA.

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An investigation into academic research leads to the resignation of Stanford University’s president. Northwestern University’s football coach is felled by a newspaper investigation. One newspaper’s front page after a shooting lockdown was so memorable that President Biden noticed. All have been achieved in the past

By JUSTIN KABUMBA and JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — A U.N. official says the eight peacekeepers have been suspended and detained in eastern Congo on allegations of sexual exploitation. The United Nations said on Wednesday that it has taken “strong measures in response to reports of serious misconduct by peacekeepers.” The peacekeepers

By ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media says Israeli airstrikes have hit the international airports of the Syrian capital Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo amid regional tensions, damaging their runways and putting them out of service. State news agency SANA quoted an unnamed military official on Thursday as

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore low-cost airline Scoot says one of its planes made a U-turn back to the city-state an hour after taking off for Perth due to a bomb threat. Scoot, a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines Group, said Flight TR16 landed safely at Singapore’s Changi Airport on Thursday evening with 374 people

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A top Ford executive says the company has reached the limit of how much money it will spend to get a contract agreement with the striking United Auto Workers union. Kumar Galhotra, president of Ford Blue, the company’s internal combustion engine business, told reporters Thursday that

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German government has drawn up legislation to ease deportations of unsuccessful asylum-seekers and plans to discuss measures to tackle migration with the opposition as it tries to defuse what has become a major political problem. Shelters for migrants and refugees have been filling up in recent

By JILL COLVIN and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Several of former President Donald Trump’s Republican rivals are denouncing him for lashing out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu days after Hamas’ deadly attack. Thursday marked a rare moment in which multiple Trump rivals directly criticized the GOP front-runner. Trump told

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is ordering U.S. biotech giant Illumina to undo its $7.1 billion purchase of cancer-screening company Grail because it closed the deal without approval of regulators. The 27-nation bloc already slapped a $475 million fine on Illumina over the summer for jumping the gun on

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s financial regulator has fined the American former chief executive of Barclays, Jes Staley, 1.8 million pounds — about $2.2 million — and banned him from holding senior financial roles for misleading it over the nature of his relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The

HELSINKI (AP) — The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service says Finland’s relationship with Russia has significantly deteriorated due to the Nordic country’s membership in NATO and over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and related sanctions. Moscow now views its western neighbor as a hostile country, the agency, known by the abbreviation SUPO, said. It added in

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Three months after Turkey agreed to expedite Sweden’s NATO membership bid, little sign of progress has emerged. NATO defense ministers are meeting Thursday and the issue was expected to be raised. Sweden gave up on decades of military non-alignment after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, to

BRUSSELS (AP) — Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, has been named a finalist for the European Union’s top human rights prize. The European Parliament on Thursday announced the three finalists for this year’s Sakharov Prize for

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Large sections of a much-loved tree near the Roman landmark of Hadrian’s Wall in northeastern England have been removed after the sycamore was cut down two weeks ago in an act of vandalism. A trust that works to protect England’s heritage and natural landscapes said it was