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By DAVID RISING Associated Press HANGZHOU, China (AP) — South Korea’s League of Legends team beat Taiwan at the Asian Games despite being without its star player. The team not only captured the gold medal in Hangzhou but also won an exemption from military service at home. South Korean law exempts athletes, classical and traditional

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation has dropped sharply in Europe. The European Union’s statistics agency said Friday that the annual rate was 4.3% in September for the 20 countries that use the euro, down from 5.2% in August. That raises hopes consumers will get relief from costlier groceries, vacations

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Friday is expected to release a playbook on best practices for training workers as the low 3.8% unemployment rate and years of underinvestment have left manufacturers, construction firms and other employers with unfilled jobs. Worker shortages have been a frustration for some employers,

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has cast doubt on the prospect of the European Union beginning negotiations any time soon for Ukraine to join the bloc. Speaking to state radio on Friday, Orbán said the EU will have to answer “very long and difficult questions until

By LEFTERIS PITARAKIS and PETROS GIANNAKOURIS Associated Press VOLOS, Greece (AP) — Bad weather has eased in central Greece, leaving widespread flooding and infrastructure damage across the farming region that has been battered by two powerful storms in less than a month. On Friday, municipal workers were handing out bottled water in the storm-hit city

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenian officials say more than 70% of Nagorno-Karabakh’s original population have fled the ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan for neighboring Armenia. It comes as the separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh says it will dissolve itself by the end of the year. Armenian officials say that by Friday

By ZANA CIMILI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — NATO is reinforcing its troop presence in Kosovo in response to a weekend shootout that left four people dead. The U.S. is also concerned about a buildup of Serbian forces on the northern border of its former territory. Kosovo’s prime minister welcomed NATO’s decision Friday. He

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president says his country does not want a confrontation but will staunchly defend its waters after its coast guard dismantled a floating barrier placed by China at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. spoke publicly for the first

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The largest dam removal project in U.S. history is underway along the border between California and Oregon. Federal regulators approved a plan last year to remove four dams on the Klamath River. The dams were first built decades ago to generate electricity. But they also disrupted

By ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of people celebrating the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 52 people and wounding nearly 70 others, authorities said, in one of the country’s deadliest attacks targeting civilians in months. An

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States has quietly acknowledged that Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard successfully put an imaging satellite into orbit this week in a launch that resembled others previously criticized by Washington as helping Tehran’s ballistic missile program. The U.S. military has not responded to repeated

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street closed out its worst month of the year with more losses. The S&P 500 slipped 0.3% Friday after an earlier gain withered, and the majority of stocks within the index sank. The Dow fell 0.5%, and the Nasdaq composite edged higher by 0.1%.

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Visiting South Sudan President Salva Kiir has agreed in a meeting with Russia’s president to expand their relationship in energy, trade and other areas, notably oil. Kiir and President Vladimir Putin also discussed political and security matters in South Sudan, which is preparing for its

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Many millions of Chinese tourists are expected to travel within their country, splurging on hotels, tours, attractions and meals in a boost to the economy during the 8-day autumn holiday period that began Friday. This year’s holiday began with the Mid-Autumn Festival on Friday and also

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A teenager who killed four fellow students at Michigan’s Oxford High School is eligible for life in prison with no chance for parole, a judge ruled Friday, finding only a “slim” chance for rehabilitation after the 2021 attack. Judge Kwamé Rowe announced the decision over video conference,

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — In the last few years, China’s government has promoted increasingly conservative social values, encouraging women to focus on raising children. It has cracked down on civil society movements and made laws to drive out foreign influence. So a 75-year-old Japanese feminist scholar who’s not married and

By STEVE PEOPLES and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro is set to address presidential primary voters in New Hampshire on Saturday. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is working to strengthen Democratic parties across the Midwest. And California Gov. Gavin Newsom was the Biden campaign’s surrogate during the second Republican

By STEVE PEOPLES and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new generation of Democratic presidential prospects is taking steps to strengthen their national profiles as they fan out across the country to help President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. That’s just as the 80-year-old president faces questions about his political strength and his age.

By TARA COPP Associated Press STE MERE EGLISE, France (AP) — The soldier had target fixation. He had three beers in hand, a full day of leave and a group of young women waiting. But a crowd of Army uniforms also gathered for this French village’s D-Day celebrations stood in the way. The soldier navigated

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The swift fall of the Armenian-majority enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijani troops and the exodus of much of its population has stunned the large Armenian diaspora around the world. Traumatized by a widely acknowledged genocide a century ago, they fear the erasure of what they consider a