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US wholesale inflation accelerated in January in latest sign that prices picked up last month

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices in the United States accelerated in January, the latest sign that some inflation pressures in the economy remain elevated. The producer price index — which tracks inflation before it reaches consumers — rose 0.3% from December to January after having fallen -0.1% from November

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Proposed questions on sexual orientation and gender identity for the Census Bureau’s biggest survey

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau plans to test questions about sexual orientation and gender identity for its most comprehensive survey of American life. The test questions will be sent to 480,000 households. If the questions are approved, it will be the first time sexual orientation and gender identity questions are asked

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Western officials and Kremlin critics blame Putin and his government for Navalny’s death in prison

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — World leaders and Russian opposition activists wasted no time Friday in blaming the reported death of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny on President Vladimir Putin and his government. “It is obvious that he was killed by Putin,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was visiting Germany

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Protests, poisoning and prison: The life and death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny

By EMMA BURROWS and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press Alexei Navalny, Russia’s top opposition leader and President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, was buried Friday in a Moscow suburb in a funeral that drew thousands of mourners amid a heavy police presence. Navalny, who was serving a 19-year sentence on charges of extremism, died Feb. 16, according

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Cambodia to install hundreds of wildlife cameras in an effort to restore its tiger population

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia will begin installing hundreds of monitoring cameras and import four tigers from India as part of a plan to restore its tiger population, officials said Friday. Tigers were declared “functionally extinct” in Cambodia in 2016 by the World Wide Fund for Nature. The last

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How will Prabowo Subianto, an ex-general who’s never held elective office, lead Indonesia?

By NINIEK KARMINI and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Foreign leaders have congratulated Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto on his apparent victory in Indonesia’s presidential election, while rights activists called him a threat. But how he’ll govern remains uncertain after a campaign in which he made few concrete promises besides continuity with the

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Alexei Navalny, galvanizing opposition leader and Putin’s fiercest foe, died in prison, Russia says

By JIM HEINTZ, DASHA LITVINOVA and EMMA BURROWS Associated Press Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia’s prison agency said. He was 47. The stunning news — less than

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Polish prime minister says his country and Finland want changes on EU border policies on migration

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister says his country will upgrade the wall on its border with Belarus to better insulate the frontier against unauthorized migration. Donald Tusk also said on Friday that Poland and Finland both see the need for changes in the European Union’s asylum legislation, which he called “inadequate” in face

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Slovak president challenges the government’s move to eliminate the special anti-graft prosecutor

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s president says she will challenge at the Constitutional Court an amendment to the country’s penal code that eliminates the office of the special prosecutor dealing with major crimes and corruption. President Zuzana Caputova said she was also asking Slovakia’s top court to freeze the legislation, which was approved by lawmakers

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Americans divided on TikTok ban even as Biden campaign joins the app, AP-NORC poll shows

By HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press President Joe Biden’s campaign is embracing TikTok to court younger voters ahead of the presidential elections, but U.S. adults have mixed views about whether the video-sharing app should even operate in the country. A new poll by The Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds a three-way

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Israel’s defense chief says military ‘thoroughly planning’ offensive in crowded Gaza border town

By JOSEF FEDERMAN, WAFAA SHURAFA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s defense minister on Friday said Israel is “thoroughly planning” a military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, signaling determination to move ahead despite growing international concerns about the safety of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians seeking refuge

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