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LONDON (AP) — Air travelers are facing possible delays at U.K. airports as government employees who check passports go on strike. The walkout Friday is the latest in a spate of walkouts over pay amid a cost-of-living crisis. France braced for similar Christmas travel disruption, with a weekend rail strike starting to bite on Friday.

By WASBIR HUSSAIN Associated Press GUWAHATI, India (AP) — A truck carrying Indian soldiers has skidded off a road into a gorge in the country’s remote northeast, killing at least 16. The army says four other soldiers were injured in the accident Friday in Sikkim state. It says the vehicle was making a sharp turn

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Police in Indianapolis on Thursday located the second of two missing infant brothers who were allegedly taken when their mother’s car was stolen in Columbus, Ohio, three days earlier. WCMH-TV reports that police say the boy was found in the missing car, which had been abandoned in a restaurant parking lot.

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sounded another defiant note on his return to his nation’s capital Friday following his wartime visit to the United States, saying his forces are “working toward victory” even as Russia warned that there would be no end to the war until

BERLIN (AP) — A German court has convicted a man of attempted murder and bodily harm and sentenced him to 14 years in prison over a knife attack on a train last year that left four people wounded. Judges found that he had an Islamic extremist motive. The Palestinian man was convicted at the Munich

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares rose in Europe on Friday after a retreat in Asia ahead of updates on U.S. consumer spending and durable goods orders. Benchmarks climbed in London and Paris but fell in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul. Oil prices surged more than $1 a barrel. Japan reported

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police have killed an Arab assailant who allegedly rammed them with his car after trying to shoot an officer in central Israel on Friday, leaving three policemen wounded. The incident took place Friday in the Arab Israeli town of Kfar Qassem, an unusual site for what police suspected was a militant

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Journalists in Somalia say the government is further restricting their work amid a significant military offensive against the al-Shabab extremist group, with a new directive to submit content for approval before publication. In the latest incident, media groups say police in the central Hirshabelle state detained

LONDON (AP) — Air travelers are facing possible delays at U.K. airports as government employees who check passports go on strike. The walkout Friday is the latest in a spate of walkouts over pay amid a cost-of-living crisis. The strike by Border Force staff is due to continue through the end of the year, with

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Cabinet has approved record defense spending next year in preparation for the country deploying U.S.-made Tomahawks and other long-range cruise missiles as part of a more offensive security strategy. The budget Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Cabinet approved Friday will surge to a record $55 billion, a

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Friday, its latest weapons demonstration that came days after U.S. and South Korean warplanes conducted joint drills that North Korea views as an invasion rehearsal. North Korea has conducted an unprecedented number of

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police have killed an assailant who allegedly rammed them with his car after trying to shoot an officer in central Israel on Friday, leaving three policemen wounded. The incident took place Friday in the Arab Israeli town of Kfar Qassem, an unusual site for what police suspected was a militant attack.

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj has been released from prison in Nepal after serving most of his sentence. Sobhraj was driven out of Central Jail in Kathmandu to the Department of Immigration under heavy guard Friday after the Supreme Court ordered him to be released

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL, HUIZHONG WU and DAKE KANG Associated Press BAZHOU, China (AP) — Nearly three years after it was first identified in China, the coronavirus is now spreading through the vast country. Experts predict difficult months ahead for its 1.4 billion people. China’s unyielding “zero-COVID” approach, which aimed to isolate all infected people, bought

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters on Friday, South Korea’s military said, its latest weapons demonstration that came days after U.S. and South Korean warplanes conducted joint drills that North Korea viewed as an invasion rehearsal. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Police say a powerful car bomb has exploded near a residential area in the capital Islamabad, killing two suspected militants and an officer. At least three police officers and seven civilians were also wounded in Friday’s bombing. A police statement said the explosion detonated after police officers

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press LYKOFI, Greece (AP) — Accompanied by a cloud of mosquitos, Police Capt. Konstantinos Tsolakidis and three other border guards set out on a boat patrol along the Evros River that forms a natural frontier between Greece and Turkey. The route takes them through a maze formed by tall reeds, past

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press DBAYEH, Lebanon (AP) — Tucked away in the hills north of Beirut below a Maronite monastery, Lebanon’s only remaining Christian-majority Palestinian camp gives few outward clues to its identity. Unlike the country’s other Palestinian refugee camps, there are no flags or political slogans on display in Dbayeh camp. Behind closed

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee released its final report Thursday on the “unimaginable” 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a mob assault by supporters of the defeated president, Donald Trump, that shook the nation and exposed the fragility of American democracy. The 814-page account provides a