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BERLIN (AP) — Police say an incendiary device has been thrown at a door of a synagogue in northwestern Germany but caused only minor damage. No one was injured. The incident in the city of Oldenburg happened early Friday afternoon. The fire was discovered quickly and didn’t spread, and the fire service didn’t need to

By JENNIFER PELTZ and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An unusual East Coast earthquake has shaken millions of people from New York and Philadelphia skyscrapers to rural New England. Friday’s quake caused no widespread damage. But people from Baltimore to Boston and beyond felt the ground shake. Nearly 30 people were displaced

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has received a medal from the pro-Russian leader of Bosnia’s Serbs, who has been sanctioned by the U.S. and Britain because of his separatist policies. Orban visited the Bosnian Serb administrative headquarters of Banja Luka on Friday as part of a visit to Bosnia. He

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Johnson & Johnson is pumping more money into heart care with a roughly $13 billion deal for Shockwave Medical, which specializes in technology that helps open clogged arteries. The health care giant said Friday that it will spend $335 in cash for each share of Shockwave. The total deal

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer McDonald’s is buying its restaurants in Israel from a longtime franchisee, hoping to reset sales that have slumped due to boycotts in the region. The Chicago-based burger giant said Friday it will buy Alonyal Limited, which owns and operates 225 restaurants in Israel. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. McDonald’s says

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has begun testifying to prosecutors on Friday after authorities said the president possesses jewelry including Rolex watches and received cash transfers totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. The prosecutors’ office estimated that her jewelry may be worth as much

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — An international campaign to ban surrogacy received a strong endorsement Friday from the Vatican, with a top official calling for a broad-based alliance to stop the “commercialization of life.” A Vatican-affiliated university hosted a two-day conference promoting an international treaty to outlaw surrogacy, be it commercial arrangements

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and Chinese defense officials have met for the first time in nearly two years to discuss unsafe and aggressive ship and aircraft incidents between their militaries in the Pacific region. The gathering Wednesday and Thursday in Hawaii restarted a dialogue Beijing abruptly ended in a

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — It has been 21 years since Sean Paul’s dancehall anthem “Get Busy” topped the Billboard Hot 100 and introduced new audiences to his Jamaican genres. “It’s changed for me now,” Sean Paul told The Associated Press, reflecting on the song’s legacy. “Because when I say,

VIENNA (AP) — Experts say Austrian glaciers receded last year at a rapid pace and the Alpine country is likely to be largely ice-free in 40 to 45 years. The Austrian Alpine Club said Friday that, of the 93 glaciers its volunteers measured and observed, all but one receded in 2022-2023. It said in an

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s deputy foreign minister has handed a diplomatic note to Israel’s ambassador protesting the killing of a Polish aid worker in an attack earlier this week on a convoy of aid workers in Gaza. After the meeting, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Szejna told reporters in Warsaw

CAIRO (AP) — A human rights lawyer in Egypt says the authorities have arrested 10 activists who participated in a pro-Palestinian protest where they accused the government of contributing to the siege of Gaza and called for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador. Egypt’s government has condemned Israel’s campaign in Gaza and has played a

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer LUANG PRABANG, Laos (AP) — Southest Asian finance ministers and central bank governors have ended meetings in the Laotian city of Luang Prabang citing progress in building stronger regional institutions, but also noting serious challenges due to geopolitical tensions and volatile commodity prices. Laos’ Finance Minister Santiphab Phomvihane read

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish authorities have arrested two people suspected of providing information to the Israeli spy agency in the latest in a series of such arrests in Turkey. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Friday the suspects allegedly gathered information about people and companies of interest to Israel and passed on the data and

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A series of scandals has blighted Denmark’s Armed Forces at a time when the country, a NATO member, is building up its defenses, chiefly as a response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This week, the head of the military resigned after he failed to inform

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he wants to strengthen military and weapons development cooperation with the United States as well as with other countries such as the Philippines, as he prepares for a visit to the U.S. next week to meet with President Joe Biden. Kishida

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Senior doctors in England have accepted a pay offer from the British government that ends a yearlong dispute. The British Medical Association and the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, which represent the doctors, said Friday that 83% of those casting a vote backed the offer. The pay

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian center-left governnment wants “a historic increase” in defense spending with 600 billion kroner ($56 billion) over the next 12 years. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said Friday that “we need a defense that is fit for purpose in the emerging security environment” and noted that “our security environment is

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian authorities have again tried to link the deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall to Ukraine, saying one of the detained suspects had photos on his phone depicting troops in camouflage uniforms with the Ukrainian flag. Ever since the March 22 mass shooting and fire

By NICK PERRY and LISA RATHKE Associated Press GILFORD, N.H. (AP) — Snow showers lingered Friday as the cleanup began following a major spring storm that brought heavy snow, rain and high winds to the Northeast, left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power, and contributed to at least two deaths. Well over