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By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares advanced Friday in Europe and Asia after news that U.S. consumer inflation slowed last month pushed Wall Street benchmarks higher. Germany’s DAX was flat at 15,063.33 while the CAC 40 in Paris gained 0.5% to 7,007.77. Britain’s FTSE 100 climbed 0.6% to 7,841.77. The futures

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Authorities say an ammonia leak in a town outside Serbia’s capital has sickened around a dozen people and forced the evacuation of nearby homes. It’s the second such incident in less than a month. The leak happened late on Thursday in a factory complex in Pacevo, an industrial town northeast of

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The official start date of the 2023 tax filing season is Jan. 23, when the IRS will begin accepting and processing 2022 returns. The news comes after the National Taxpayer Advocate reported that the IRS watchdog is seeing “a light at the end of the tunnel” of

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has now collected 510 reports of unidentified flying objects, many of which are flying in sensitive military airspace. While there’s no evidence of extraterrestrials, they still pose a threat, the government said in a declassified report summary released Thursday. Last year the Pentagon opened an

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A police officer has died in Hungary’s capital after he and two other officers were stabbed while responding to a call. Police received a call late Thursday that a man had broken down the door of a neighboring apartment in Budapest and was attempting to enter. The city’s police department said

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. economy grew unexpectedly in November as the tight job market increased demand for employment services and soccer’s World Cup boosted hospitality. The Office for National Statistics says gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic activity, increased 0.1% from the previous month. That beat the expectations of economists, who had

By The Associated Press As Russian troops wage a ferocious house-to-house fight for control of strongholds in eastern Ukraine, a parallel battle is unfolding in the top echelons of military power in Moscow, with President Vladimir Putin reshuffling his top generals while rival camps try to win his favor. The fighting for the salt mining

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BALATA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Yousef Mesheh was sleeping in his bunk bed when Israeli forces stormed into his home at 3 a.m. Within moments, the 15-year-old Palestinian said he was lying on the floor as troops punched him, shouting insults. A soldier struck his mother’s chest with

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The stiffest penalty Donald Trump’s company could receive when it is sentenced Friday by a New York judge for helping its executives dodge taxes is a $1.6 million fine — not even enough to buy a Trump Tower apartment. Neither the former president nor his

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese prosecutors formally charged the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder, sending him to stand trial, a court said Friday. Tetsuya Yamagami was arrested immediately after allegedly shooting Abe with a homemade gun as the former leader was making a campaign

By KIM CHANDLER and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) — A massive storm system whipping up severe winds and spawning tornadoes cut a path across the U.S. South, killing at least seven people in Georgia and Alabama, where a twister damaged buildings and tossed cars in the streets of historic downtown Selma. Authorities

By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer Annual tributes and commemorations of the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which begin nationwide on Friday, typically include a mix of politics, faith and community service. For this year’s celebration, the 37th since its federal recognition in 1986, a descendant of King hopes to

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as 7,000 nurses return to work at two of New York’s busiest hospitals after a three-day strike, colleagues around the country say it’s just a matter of time before frontline workers at other hospitals begin walking the picket line. Problems are mounting at hospitals across the

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida were prepared to hold wide-ranging talks at the White House on Friday as Japan looks to build security cooperation with allies amid growing concerns about provocative Chinese and North Korean military action. The two administrations were also ready to

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Chaos? In the House of Representatives? Republican Kevin McCarthy wrapped his first full week as House speaker in the most outwardly orderly way, with hardly a hint of the chaotic, rebellious fight it took for the Republicans to arrive here, having barely installed him as the

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has revised the timing of a planned release to the sea of treated radioactive wastewater at the Fukushima nuclear plant to “around spring or summer,” indicating a delay from the initial target, after factoring in the progress of a release tunnel and the need to gain

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press SAN CARLOS, Bolivia (AP) — Trucks are snarled and people in the Santa Cruz region have to find ways to skirt blockades that opposition leaders set up across the area considered to be Bolivia’s economic engine to protest the detention of Gov. Luis Fernando Camacho late last year on “terrorism

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says the Israeli military shot and killed three Palestinians during arrest raids in the occupied West Bank. The military said soldiers in Qalandia refugee camp were being struck by stones and responded with live fire. Palestinian health officials also said the Israeli army