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By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge says the court will swiftly adopt new congressional map for Alabama after ruling the state should have a second district with a substantial percentage of Black voters. U.S. District Judge Stanley Marcus said Tuesday that the three-judge panel will rule shortly on the

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Rebuking Donald Trump, a state court judge imposed a limited gag order Tuesday in the former president’s civil business fraud trial and ordered him to delete a social media post that publicly maligned a key court staffer. Judge Arthur

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Two earthquakes have struck northwestern Nepal, sending tremors through the region. Several houses were reportedly damaged by the tremor but no casualties were reported in the region. The country’s earthquake monitoring center said the epicenter for both quakes was Bajhang district in northwestern Nepal, close to the Indian border. The initial

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic and Austria say they are temporarily reintroducing checks along their borders with Slovakia in an effort to stem a flow of migrants. Both countries said in separate announcements that the measure will become effective on Wednesday and remain in place for 10 days initially. Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner

By ELIZABETH AYOOLA of NerdWallet Married couples can benefit from a range of tax breaks in the form of credits and deductions. With the right strategies in place, couples can use these tax breaks to build wealth. One strategy that couples can employ is using tax credits or money they saved because of deductions to

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president has welcomed the U.N. Security Council’s resolution to send a Kenya-led multinational armed force to Haiti to help combat violent gangs and pledged that it will “not fail the people of Haiti.” President William Ruto’s remarks on Tuesday came a day after the vote

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The World Bank says South Asia is expected to grow by 5.8% this year, making it the fastest-growing region in the world even as the pace remains below pre-pandemic levels. The latest South Asia Development Update from the World Bank released on Tuesday projects growth in

By DAVID RISING Associated Press SHAOXING, China (AP) — China has gone out of its way to welcome the Taiwanese athletes at the Asian Games. It’s part of its two-pronged strategy with the goal of taking over the self-ruled island that involves both wooing its people and threatening it militarily. Unlike the Beijing Winter Olympics

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Residents say an explosion and fire at at an illegal oil refinery site in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region has killed at least 15 people. They say the blast happened Monday in  River state’s Emohua district. Residents said Tuesday that the death toll was likely to grow

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Niger’s junta says at least 29 Nigerien soldiers have been killed by jihadis near the country’s border with Mali, the latest of growing attacks that the country’s new junta is struggling to end. Niger’s defense minister says that more than 100 extremists targeted the West African

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI and TIAN MACLEOD JI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Authorities in Thailand’s capital say at least two people were killed when a teenage boy with a handgun opened fire in a major shopping mall in the center of Bangkok. A police spokesperson told reporters a suspect was taken into custody after the

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army is launching a sweeping overhaul of its recruiting to focus more on young people who’ve spent time in college or are job hunting early in their careers. The Army’s aim is to reverse years of enlistment shortfalls. A major part of this is the

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — The Armenian parliament has voted to join International Criminal Court, which earlier this year indicted Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes connected to the deportation of children from Ukraine. The move will further strain Armenia’s deteriorating relations with its ally Russia, which last month called

By JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — A Congolese military court has sentenced a colonel to death after soldiers fired upon a crowd of protesters earlier this year. More than 50 people died in the town of Goma in August when a sect known as Wazalendo organized a demonstration against the U.N. peacekeeping

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police raided the offices of a news website that’s under investigation for allegedly receiving funds from China, as well as the homes of several of its journalists, the latest in a series of investigations into the finances of independent media in India. The raids were

By SUZAN FRASER and ROBERT BADENDIECK Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish warplanes have carried out new airstrikes against suspected Kurdish militant sites in northern Iraq days after a suicide bomb attack in the Turkish capital. Police meanwhile, detained almost a thousand people in raids across Turkey on Tuesday, including dozens with alleged links

By DAVID KEYTON, SETH BORENSTEIN and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for giving us the first split-second glimpse into the superfast world of spinning electrons, a field that could one day lead to better electronics or disease diagnoses. The award went to French-Swedish

By MOHAMED SHARUHAN Associated Press MALE, Maldives (AP) — The president-elect of the Maldives says he’s sticking to his campaign promise to remove Indian military personnel stationed in the archipelago state, promising he will initiate the process. On Monday night, Mohamed Muiz told supporters gathered at a celebration of his election victory that he won’t

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian markets were sharply lower on Wednesday after Wall Street tumbled as it focused on the downside of a surprisingly strong job market: the likelihood that interest rates will stay high. U.S. futures and oil prices edged lower. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index sank 2.2% to 30,551.85

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has issued a weather alert as Typhoon Koinu is approaching and may make landfall later this week, bringing gales and downpours to the southeastern parts of the island. The weather bureau put out a land warning on Tuesday after issuing a sea alert late Monday. Koinu was moving northwest with