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By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With contests in 16 states and American Samoa, the Super Tuesday primaries next week will be the largest day of voting of the year outside of the November election. Just how “super” it is may be a matter of perspective. Both Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian state media and online accounts tied to the Kremlin have begun pushing misleading and incendiary claims about U.S. immigration. It’s an apparent effort to target American voters before the 2024 election. Experts who track Russian disinformation say that by focusing on immigration, Russia is trying to

By KELVIN CHAN, THALIA BEATY and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over what he says is a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker’s founding aims of benefiting humanity rather than pursuing profits. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court. Billionaire Musk says that when

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A new report says the British government’s contentious plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda could cost nearly half a billion British pounds, plus hundreds of thousands more for each deported person. The report released on Friday by the National Audit Office comes

BERLIN (AP) — Environmental activists are staging a protest in a forest near Berlin against plans to expand the grounds of electric car maker Tesla’s first plant in Europe and are vowing to stay in place for weeks. Between 80 and 100 activists have been camping in the forest since early Thursday, according to an

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Outraged Japanese opposition lawmakers have submitted a no-confidence motion accusing the governing party of trying to push through a budget bill without adequate debate because of disruptions caused by a scandal over its fund-raising practices. They slammed Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for failing to provide details about

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Alexander Stubb has been sworn in as Finland’s new president. He said Friday that the Nordic country “is facing a new era” after becoming a NATO member. The former prime minister replaced President Sauli Niinistö who held the job for two six-year terms. Finland joined NATO in

By MARK M. MENGONFIA Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — A government minister in Liberia says that violent protests over the presence of an armed force in mining areas in the country’s northwest resulted in the death of one demonstrator and multiple injuries. Protesters and police officers in the mining town of Kinjor were both

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom is poised to hold its first election in five years in a country battered by the cost-of-living crisis, the fallout from Israel-Hamas conflict and deep divisions over how to deal with migrants and asylum seekers crossing the English Channel from Europe on small inflatable

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation just keeps dropping in Europe. The consumer price index fell to 2.6 in February from 2.8% the month before. Falling oil and gas prices played a role, and food inflation isn’t as bad as it was. Inflation is now far below its peak of

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The new prime minister in the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu says his country shares democratic values with Taiwan, and that Taiwanese leaders have “been loyal to us.” Feleti Teo spoke to The Associated Press on Friday via Zoom, his first interview with international media since

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A veteran British political disruptor has won a special election in a heavily Muslim town in northern England following a contest that has been mired in chaos and controversy and dominated by the war in Gaza. George Galloway’s victory was described as “beyond alarming” by Conservative Prime

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A six-story shopping mall that caught fire in the Bangladeshi capital had no fire exits, the country’s prime minister said Friday, as the death toll climbed to at least 46 and rescuers continued to search for more victims. The fire started late Thursday in a restaurant on the first floor of

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The Phnom Penh Post, a newspaper founded in 1992 as Cambodia sought to re-establish stability and democracy after decades of war and unrest, says it will stop publishing a print edition this month, the latest blow to the country’s dwindling independent media. It wrote on

BERLIN (AP) — Police and prosecutors say four people have been killed in shootings in northern Germany and the suspect is a soldier who turned himself in. Authorities said Friday that the four victims, including a child, were shot overnight at locations in the rural Scheessel and Bothel areas, near Hannover and Bremen. They said

BERLIN (AP) — Local buses, subway trains and trams have ground to a halt in much of Germany, at the peak of a week of walkouts by employees demanding better working conditions. The Ver.di service workers’ union called for a week of strikes lasting from Monday through Saturday, with the main day of walkouts on

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — In four months, the world’s best athletes will be at the Paris Olympics. Yet some competitors say it won’t be truly representative of the global talent as not all countries can afford to give their athletes a fighting chance to get there. Senegal’s top ranked surfer

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A private airplane carrying singer Karol G made an emergency landing at a Los Angeles airport Thursday evening, a news report said. The aircraft carrying the Grammy winner and others landed at Van Nuys Airport around 9 p.m. with no immediate reports of injuries, KABC-TV reported. The plane left Hollywood Burbank

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks were mostly higher Monday ahead of China’s top annual political gathering, while Japan’s benchmark surpassed the 40,000 level for the first time. U.S. futures fell and oil prices were little changed. Japan’s Nikkei 225 share index advanced 0.5% to 40,150.00, breaching the 40,000 level,

By VINCENT THIAN and EILEEN NG Associated Press LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — A Scandinavian Airlines medical evacuation plane has arrived in Malaysia’s northern resort island of Langkawi, where the Norwegian king is being treated at a hospital for an infection. King Harald V of Norway, Europe’s oldest monarch at 87, was hospitalized after he fell