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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has formally resubmitted documents seeking to obtain UNESCO World Heritage recognition for a controversial former gold mine that has added to diplomatic frictions with South Korea over Japanese wartime actions. Japan’s earlier hope to get the Sado Island mine listed as a World Heritage site this

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — DeMeco Ryans’ day as San Francisco defensive coordinator started with meetings and then went to the practice field as he focused on implementing a defense to slow down Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys. Then instead of relaxing or diving into more film

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister and the nation’s security official say that foreign divers rescued from near a key port where they had no authorization to be posed no threat to vital infrastructure or public safety. Premier Mateusz Morawiecki made the statement late Thursday after receiving a report on the incident near an

LONDON (AP) — The Church of England has formally has apologized for its treatment of the LGBTQ people even as it said that same-sex couples still will not be allowed to marry in its churches. The apology from the church’s bishops on Friday came in a report following five years of debate on the church’s

BEIJING (AP) — More bodies have been found following an avalanche that buried vehicles outside a highway tunnel in Tibet, raising the death toll to 20 with eight people still missing. Images from the scene at the exit of the tunnel connecting the city of Nyingchi in Tibet’s southwest with an outlying county showed about

By ALICE FUNG and KARMEN LI Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — In crowded Hong Kong, where most apartments range from small to miniscule, rabbits are popular pets. And when their owners are away, there are rabbit lovers ready to look after their lonely pets at Bunny Style, a luxury rabbit resort. Rabbits scamper around

By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight months, 126 formal interviews and a 23-page report later, the Supreme Court said it has failed to discover who leaked a draft of the court’s opinion overturning abortion rights. The report released by the court Thursday is the apparent culmination of an investigation

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian state television says that a man’s body has been pulled out of a swollen river in a southwestern town and rescuers are searching for another man as floods in the Balkans close down schools, cut railway traffic and soak homes and farmland. The floods this week in Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro,

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Andy Murray just wanted to go to the bathroom. It was 3 a.m., he’d already been playing his Australian Open second-round match against Thanasi Kokkinakis for more than 4 1/2 hours — they would carry on for another set across more than another hour —

By DANIEL POLITI and FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Thousands of protesters demanding the ouster of President Dina Boluarte poured into Peru’s capital, clashing with police who fired tear gas. Many came from remote regions, where dozens have died in unrest that has gripped the country since Peru’s first leader from a

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Shares were higher in Europe and Asia on Friday after Wall Street declined on worries that the U.S. economy is headed for recession. U.S. futures were little changed while oil prices advanced. Traders worry the Federal Reserve and central banks in Europe and Asia that have

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A gunman fired shots at police as he weaved through the aisles of an Indiana Walmart before being killed by law enforcement, authorities said. At least one person in the store was wounded Thursday night by the shooter, who was not immediately identified, Evansville Police Department Sgt. Anna Gray told WFIE-TV.

By SOPHENG CHEANG and DAVID RISING Associated Press SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AP) — A group of 15 Ukrainian deminers are wrapping up a week of training in Cambodia, where experts who have cleared minefields from one of the world’s most contaminated countries shared their expertise with the relative newcomers to the dangerous job. Cambodia is

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — India’s foreign minister says his country has given financial assurances to the International Monetary Fund to facilitate a bailout plan to help neighboring Sri Lanka emerge from its worst economic crisis, in a first formal announcement from one of the island nation’s creditors. India’s Foreign

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Remarkable as Damar Hamlin’s recovery has been, the Buffalo Bills safety still faces a lengthy rehabilitation some three weeks after going into cardiac arrest and needing to be resuscitated on the field during a game in Cincinnati, his marketing representative told The Associated Press

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is unveiling a military plan Thursday for his nuclear-armed country through the rest of this decade. It’s meant to take into account the impact of the war in Ukraine and threats around the world. The plan is expected to include higher military spending in line with NATO expectations

By SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press GORAZDE, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Residents of eastern Bosnia’s city of Gorazde do not need imaginations to understand the suffering of Ukraine’s people. Three decades ago, they endured more than three years of extreme hardship as Bosnian Serbs pummeled their city with rockets and artillery from the surrounding hills. The long

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Film production and firearms experts say movie sets probably changed permanently when cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed on the remote New Mexico set of the Western “Rust” 14 months ago, leading to the announcement from prosecutors Thursday that Alec Baldwin and the film’s

By JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press Wisps of fog hung over central Almaty, Kazakhstan, last month as President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev somberly unveiled a monument to those killed a year ago in the worst unrest in the Central Asian nation’s three decades of independence. Words on the stark concrete “Reverence” memorial speak of the need for unity