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By ISAAC SCHARF and AMI BENTOV Associated Press YOKNEAM, Israel (AP) — An Israeli-led crowdfunding campaign has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Palestinian residents of a West Bank town that was set ablaze by radical Jewish settlers this week. The organizer says Thursday some 12,000 Israelis have donated nearly 1.7 million shekels —

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of people applying for unemployment benefits in the U.S. fell for third straight week. That’s good news for American workers, but potentially bad news in the fight against inflation by the Federal Reserve, which has been ratcheting up its benchmark interest rate for a year in an

By CASSANDRA ALLWOOD, JAMES BROOKS and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The father of the cellphone, China’s Huawei and tens of thousands of visitors went to tout and take in the latest tech advances at the MWC industry expo. The metaverse got a lot of attention at this week’s show, also known

BERLIN (AP) — German media say former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder won’t be sanctioned by his own party because of his ties with Russian state-owned companies. The dpa news agency and other news outlets reported Tuesday that the Social Democratic Party’s regional committee in Hannover rejected bids to punish Schröder for his improvement with Russian

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The head of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant says details of the damage inside its reactors are only beginning to be known 12 years after it was hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami, making it difficult to foresee when or how its decommissioning will be completed.

BERLIN (AP) — A German ice cream parlor has expanded its menu with a skin-crawling offering: cricket-flavored scoops with dried brown crickets on top. The unusual confection is available at Thomas Micolino’s store in southern Germany’s town of Rottenburg am Neckar, German news agency dpa reported Thursday. Micolino has a habit of creating flavors that

By ANDY ROSEN of NerdWallet Unlike a deduction, which decreases the income on which you’ll be taxed, a tax credit reduces your overall tax due. The result can mean hundreds of dollars knocked off your bill — or added to your refund. Some tax credits apply to a huge swath of the population, while others

By COSTAS KANTOURIS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Emergency crews cut trough the mangled metal paneling of a passenger train on Thursday, progressing “centimeter by centimeter” in their efforts to pull more bodies from the burned wreckage of a head-on collision in northern Greece that left at least 43 people dead.

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The foreign ministers of India and China have met on the sidelines of a gathering of top diplomats from the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations, signaling a thaw in their relationship, which has been tense since 2020. Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar says the

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say a 32-year-old Chicago police officer has died after being wounded during a shootout while responding to a call of a man chasing a woman with a gun. Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown says the officer was shot several times Wednesday afternoon on the city’s Southwest Side. He was He

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have spoken briefly at a meeting of top diplomats from the Group of 20 nations. U.S. officials say Blinken and Lavrov chatted for about 10 minutes on the sidelines of the conference in

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — A summit on how to protect the world’s largest forests underway in Gabon is set to be dominated by the issue of who pays for the protection and reforesting of lands that are home to some of the world’s most diverse species and contribute to limiting

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer NEW DELHI (AP) — Top diplomats from the world’s major industrialized and developing nations are grappling with deepening rifts in their ranks as they hold contentious talks dominated by Russia’s war in Ukraine and China’s moves to boost its global influence. Host India appealed Thursday for all members of

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norwegian police have removed activists from the entrance to two government offices as campaigners continued their protest against a wind farm that they say hinders the rights of the Sami Indigenous people to raise reindeer in Arctic Norway. The activists are mainly teenagers. They began their protest a week ago and

BERLIN (AP) — Some 18.9 million people, or 23% of Germany’s population, have either immigrated to the country since 1950 or are the children of immigrants. Germany’s Federal Statistics Office said Thursday that a further 3.7 million or 4.5% of the population, have one parent who immigrated and one ethnic German parent. It’s the first

By MAE ANDERSON and TED SHAFFREY The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Shoeshines are losing some luster. Once a common practice, the tradition of getting a quick polish from a rag-toting shoeshiner has become more of a rarity, and many stands have disappeared across the country. The decline has been exacerbated by the pandemic,

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, whose half-century reign makes her Europe’s longest-serving monarch, has been discharged from a Copenhagen hospital. The palace said Thursday that she had undergone a successful back operation last week. The 82-year-old monarch is now facing “a lengthy physical rehabilitation process” which may last several months. On Feb.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The famed statue of Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid, one of Copenhagen’s biggest tourist draws, has been vandalized, with the colors of the Russian flag painted on the rock on which she sits. It is not known when the vandalism took place. The rock was painted in stripes of white, blue

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt has announced it is raising the price of some types of gasoline, the latest hike to beset the cash-strapped North African country. Egypt’s petroleum ministry said the price of three octanes of gasoline rose from between 0.75 to 1 Egyptian pound per liter. The hike was introduced Thursday morning, it said.