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By YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street was subdued before the open Thursday ahead of another closely-watched inflation reading that comes a day after markets rallied on a strong retail sales report. Futures for the Dow Jones industrials and ticked down 0.2% and the S&P 500 fell 0.3% less than an

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Red Cross’ global chief says Syria could face dangerous outbreaks of disease in the wake of last week’s devastating earthquake if hundreds of thousands of displaced people do not get permanent housing soon. The head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities say six people were killed when a pickup truck and a minibus collided near Egypt’s eastern city of Ismailia. They said three others were injured in the crash and those killed included five Palestinians and one Egyptian. According to Egyptian media, the five passengers were heading to Rafah, Egypt’s official

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has again pummeled Ukraine with a barrage of cruise and other missiles, hitting targets from east to west as the war’s one-year anniversary nears. Ukrainian authorities said one of the strikes Thursday killed a 79-year-old woman and injured at least seven other people. Ukrainian authorities

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The parliament of oil-rich Norway has announced that the Scandinavian country is donating 75 billion kroner ($7.4 billion) to Kyiv as part of a five-year support package, making Norway one of the world’s biggest donors to war-torn Ukraine. In a video address to the 169-seat parliament, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — Hamid Yakisikli has waited outside the pile of concrete that used to be his house since an earthquake devastated his home in the ancient city of Antakya. He and his two brothers have endured freezing conditions, in big jackets and wool hats, waiting for rescuers

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Tens of thousands of revelers danced in the streets of Cologne, Duesseldorf, Bonn and other cities and towns across the Rhineland Thursday as they celebrated the traditional start of Carnival in Germany. Dressed up in bright colors and creative costumes, they sang loudly and swayed to familiar

By RISKA MUNAWARAH and YAYAN ZAMZAMI Associated Press ACEH BESAR, Indonesia (AP) — A boat carrying 71 weak and hungry Rohingya Muslims fleeing from refugee camps in Bangladesh has landed in Indonesia’s Aceh province, Fifteen-year-old Shorif Uddin, who was on the boat with his parents, says two or three people died while they were at

BERLIN (AP) — The German news agency dpa is reporting that the websites of several German airports have been disrupted after what may have been a suspected hacker attack. Thursday’s disruptions did not appear to have an immediate impact on air traffic. Nuremberg Airport in southern Germany reported that its online site was receiving so

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A devastating earthquake that toppled buildings across parts of Turkey and neighboring Syria has revived a longstanding debate locally and in neighboring Cyprus about a large nuclear power station being built on Turkey’s southern Mediterranean coastline. The plant’s site in Akkuyu, located some

BEIJING (AP) — China and Iran have called on mutual neighbor Afghanistan to end restrictions on women’s work and education. The call came in a joint statement issued Thursday at the close of a visit to Beijing by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi during which the sides affirmed close economic and political ties and their rejection

By TANYA TITOVA and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s disaster management agency has raised the number of people killed in the Feb. 6 earthquakes to 36,187. NATO’s chief called it the worst disaster on the alliance’s territory. The revised death toll pushes the combined total from Turkey and Syria to 39,875.

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Thousands of black-clad pilgrims from across Iraq are taking part in an annual procession marking the death of a Shiite saint. The procession Thursday amid chilly temperatures and heavy security travels to the shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, the seventh of 12 Shiite imams who died in

MERIBEL, France (AP) — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin has taken the lead with her first run of the giant slalom at the world championships. Shiffrin was the third starter and beat the time of then-leader Tessy Worley of France by 0.12 seconds. Defending champion Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland had more than six-tenths to make up

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were mostly higher Thursday, cheered on by a stronger than expected reading on U.S. retail sales that set off a rally on Wall Street. France’s CAC 40 edged up 0.8% in early trading to 7,356.36. Germany’s DAX added 0.5% to 15,586.02. Britain’s FTSE 100

PARIS (AP) — France is bracing for a fifth day of nationwide strikes and protests against a pension reform that is the flagship policy of President Emmanuel Macron’s second term. Thursday’s protests are expected to be less disruptive that on previous occasions, with the Paris Metro working normally and most schools unaffected. A railway worker

By PIYUSH NAGPAL and ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s tax officials are searching the BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai for a third straight day seeking information about the organization’s business operations amid allegations of tax evasion. Some news staff members were questioned overnight, but the tax officials restricted themselves

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Nearly a year since fleeing Ukraine for Hungary amid the bombs and terror of Russia’s invasion, more than 100 young circus performers still hold intensive daily training sessions in Budapest while waiting to see what an uncertain future holds. The group, whose members are between the

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — In the cemetery where Oleksii Zavadskyi and Yurii Stiahliuk are buried, the women they loved take drags on the men’s favorite brands of cigarettes. Clouds of smoke are exhaled in silence. Interlaced between Anastasiia Okhrimenko’s dainty fingers are Camels. Anna Korostenska lights L&M’s, her hands shaking

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Thursday, cheered on by a stronger than expected reading on U.S. retail sales that set off a rally on Wall Street. In the latest data on the regional economy, Japan’s trade deficit reached a record 3.497 trillion yen ($26.2 billion) in