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BEIJING (AP) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has received pledges of economic and political support during a meeting in Beijing with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The meeting Friday comes in the middle of Hun Sen’s three-day visit. Cambodia is a key Chinese diplomatic partner, helping dampen criticism of Beijing within the 10-member Association of

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Super Bowl ads are more than just breaks between gameplay during the biggest sporting event of the year: They offer a glimpse of the country’s zeitgeist, along with how major industries are faring. This year, crypto ads and automakers are advertising less since those industries

By JULIO CORTEZ Associated Press FALLSTON, Md. (AP) — Authorities say a suspect sought in the shooting of two Maryland police officers has been taken into custody after fleeing from the vehicle he had stolen from a detective he shot. Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said early Friday that federal, state and local law enforcement

By FU TING, GRACE EKPU and HELEN WIEFFERING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Indonesia’s fisheries minister, Edhy Prabowo was tasked with protecting one of his country’s most precious resources: baby lobsters so tiny one can fit on the tip of a finger. The waters off the nation’s many islands and archipelagos had once teemed

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Police say a powerful roadside bomb has exploded near a vehicle carrying security forces in volatile southwest Pakistan, killing two soldiers and wounding three others. Friday’s attack happened in the Kohlu district in Baluchistan province. A local police official, Lal Khan, said the dead and wounded had been moved to a

By DAVID BILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is welcoming Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the White House for wide-ranging talks. The leaders are expected to discuss efforts to safeguard democracy, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and climate change, including efforts to stem deforestation of the Amazon.

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia unleashed strategic bombers, killer drones and rockets in a barrage of attacks on Ukrainian targets early Friday, as a military push by Moscow that Kyiv says has been brewing for days appeared to pick up pace ahead of the one-year anniversary of its invasion. The

By DAVID McHUGH and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia announced Friday that will cut oil production by 500,000 barrels per day next month after Western countries capped the price of its crude over its action in Ukraine. “As of today, we fully sell all our crude output, but as we stated before,

LONDON (AP) — As Ukraine pushes for Russian athletes to be barred from next year’s Paris Olympics and threats of a boycott mount, officials from 30 countries were holding a summit Friday to discuss how to respond. The International Olympic Committee argues it would be discriminatory to exclude Russia and ally Belarus from the 2024

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British economy has stagnated in the final three months of last year under the weight of a cost-of-living crisis. It’s squeezing household budgets, crimping business investment and fueling labor unrest. The Office for National Statistics said Friday that gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic

BERLIN (AP) — Officials say a bus traveling from Poland to Belgium has come off a highway in eastern Germany and overturned, injuring 35 people, six of them seriously. The accident happened on the A2 highway near Magdeburg, west of Berlin, in the early hours of Friday morning. Police said there were 54 people on

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares have fallen after Wall Street retreated for a second day as market watchers considered earnings reports and various indicators about whether inflation is waning in the U.S. and elsewhere. Shares fell in early trading in France, Germany and Britain. U.S. futures were drifting higher.

FALLSTON, Md. (AP) — Authorities say a suspect sought in the shooting of two Maryland police officers was surrounded by law enforcement after fleeing from the vehicle he had stolen from a detective he shot. The officer was shot Thursday night during a search for a suspect who authorities say wounded a different officer while

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces unleashed a barrage of missile and drone strikes against targets in eastern and southern Ukraine early Friday, as a Moscow offensive that has been brewing for days appeared to pick up pace ahead of the one-year anniversary of its invasion. The Kremlin’s forces focused

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BRASOV, Romania (AP) — University student Vlada Yushchenko was still in her teens and nearly three months pregnant when she hugged her husband at the border, turned away and walked into Moldova. Now she’s in Romania, one of the millions of Ukrainians forced to flee Russia’s invasion. Her baby, Daniel,

By DAKE KANG and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China has dismissed a U.S. House of Representatives resolution condemning Beijing over a suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down above U.S. waters as “purely political manipulation and hyping up.” A Foreign Ministry spokesperson says China is “strongly dissatisfied with this and firmly opposes it.”

ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey has for years tempted fate by not enforcing modern construction codes while allowing — and in some cases, encouraging — a real estate boom in earthquake-prone areas, experts say. The lax enforcement, which experts in geology and engineering have long warned about, is gaining

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A youthful foreign minister who campaigned as a unifier unconstrained by antiquated ideological and party lines will take on a veteran diplomat with broad voter appeal in a Feb. 12 runoff for the presidency of ethnically divided Cyprus. Former minister Nikos Christodoulides, 49, came out on

BEIJING (AP) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on a visit to his close ally. No details were immediately released of the meeting Friday that comes in the middle of Hun Sen’s three-day visit. Cambodia is a key Chinese diplomatic partner, helping dampen criticism of Beijing within the

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Rhapsody Stiggers has been dancing since she was 2, but the 20-year-old college junior has never taken a dance class quite as challenging as the one she’s in now. She is one of 38 students at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee enrolled in the first for-credit college