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By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press SAHY, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia has begun conducting border checks with neighboring Hungary because of what it says is a dramatic rise in migrants crossing into its territory. The inspections, which began Thursday, are part of a flurry of border measures other Central European countries have imposed in recent days.

By BRIAN WITTE and LEA SKENE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Maryland Supreme Court is scrutinizing the outcome of a hearing that vacated Adnan Syed’s murder conviction after he spent 23 years behind bars. The victim’s family says they weren’t given adequate opportunity to take part in the proceedings. The case became known

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have asked a judge to postpone his classified documents trial until after next year’s presidential election, saying they have not received all the records they need to review to prepare his defense. The trial on charges of illegally hoarding classified documents,

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan security forces briefly arrested opposition figure Bobi Wine, foiling a planned street demonstration by his supporters who intended to welcome him at the airport. Wine, a singer and former lawmaker whose real name is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, was driven under police escort to his home outside Kampala on his arrival from

BERLIN (AP) — A special unit of police and customs officials have raided several properties of a Russian national in the southern state of Bavaria, officials say. The unidentified Russian is subject to sanctions and asset freezes by the European Union, German customs officials said. The German news agency dpa reported that several luxury cars

LONDON (AP) — Scottish authorities have signed an extradition order for an American fugitive accused of faking his own death to avoid a rape charge in Utah. The Scottish government said Thursday that an extradition order for the man local officials refer to as Nicholas Rossi had been signed on Sept. 28. The government provided

By SAM METZ Associated Press Family members of jailed lawyers and politicians in Tunisia want the International Criminal Court to investigate claims of political persecution and human rights violations. An increasing number of President Kais Saied’s opponents are being arrested and several in prison are staging hunger strikes. The sons and daughters of four of

LONDON (AP) — Concerns from regulators about the dominance of Amazon and Microsoft in Britain’s cloud computing market have triggered an investigation into the competitiveness of the key industry. The U.K. communications regulator Ofcom said Thursday that its yearlong study of the cloud communications services market found features that could limit competition. It says British

MADRID (AP) — Officials say firefighters are battling to control a new wildfire on Spain’s Tenerife island that has forced some 3,000 people to leave their homes for safety. The blaze, which started Wednesday, is centered on the towns of Santa Úrsula and La Orotava in the mountainous northeast of the island, away from the

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s official anti-graft watchdog has questioned Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus over suspicions of money laundering and embezzlement. Yunus, who pioneered the use of microcredit to help impoverished people in Bangladesh, said on Thursday that he did not commit any crimes. His legal troubles

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Surging interest rates are intensifying the challenges for the U.S. economy and threatening to derail the Federal Reserve’s drive to tame inflation without causing a deep recession. Since mid-summer, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note has steadily climbed, causing a spillover rise in other borrowing

By JOHN SEEWER and TOM KRISHER Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — When Rhonda Naus got a job inspecting Jeep Wranglers fresh off the assembly line, her paycheck added up to roughly half of what her co-workers were making. But with that came an expectation that her temporary status eventually would become permanent with a

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press HROZA, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian rocket blast turned a village cafe and store in eastern Ukraine into rubble Thursday, killing at least 51 civilians in one of the deadliest attacks in the war in months, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top officials in Kyiv. Rescuers searched for

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian health officials say four Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the northern West Bank. The Israeli military said Thursday that its troops carried out a raid in the Tulkarem refugee camp. It said that soldiers came under fire and that troops shot Palestinian gunmen. Palestinian officials said two militants

By RAF CASERT and RENATA BRITO Associated Press GRANADA, Spain (AP) — Almost 50 European leaders are using a summit in southern Spain’s Granada to stress that they stand by Ukraine at a time when Western resolve appears somewhat weakened. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy retorted on Thursday that maintaining such unity was now “the main

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The mayor of Tokyo’s busy Shibuya shopping and entertainment district is asking Halloween celebrants not to visit, fearing that a large number of partygoers following the COVID-19 pandemic could cause a disaster similar to last year’s fatal crowd surge in South Korea’s capital. Mayor Ken Hasebe says

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and ALBERT AJI Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A drone attack hit a crowded military graduation ceremony Thursday in the Syrian city of Homs, killing 80 people and wounding 240, the health minister said, in one of the deadliest recent attacks on an army that’s been fighting a civil war for more

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose in cautious trading Friday after Wall Street drifted to a quiet close on worries about a too-hot U.S. job market. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 fell 0.3% to 31,129.06. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.5% to 6,906.96. South Korea’s Kospi edged up 0.3% to

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two trains have collided head-on in the northern Polish city of Gdynia, injuring five people. The collision occurred at 7 a.m. Thursday near the main station in Gdynia, a city on the Baltic Sea. Four people were taken to a hospital while a fifth person was treated on-site. The Gdynia fire