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By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — The Indian government’s flagship program to encourage individual and collective action on climate was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the United Nations Secretary-General on Thursday. Mission Life, where “life” is an acronym for “lifestyle for environment,” is designed to encourage individual behaviors like switching

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The Ethiopian prime minister’s national security adviser says the African Union has scheduled peace talks to resolve Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict for Oct. 24. The statement from the adviser on Thursday came as fighting continued between Ethiopia’s federal government troops and the authorities in Tigray. Ethiopia’s government said earlier this week

By RAF CASERT and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders were heading into a two-day summit Thursday with opposing views on whether, and how, the bloc could impose a gas price cap to contain the energy crisis fueled by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and his strategy to choke

By The Associated Press Justin Verlander and the Houston Astros got the jump on the New York Yankees. Now they’ll try to take a 2-0 lead in the AL Championship Series when All-Star lefty Framber Valdez pitches against Yankees right-hander Luis Severino on Thursday night in Houston. It’s a day off in the NLCS, with

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Liz Truss is due to make a statement in Downing Street amid intense speculation about her future. Thursday’s expected move comes after Truss held a hastily arranged meeting with a Conservative official tasked with assessing whether the prime minister still has the support of

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says Jewish settlers stormed through a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank throwing stones at Palestinian cars and using pepper spray on troops trying to disperse the settlers. The settler rampage late Wednesday comes days after a similar incident in the same area and as Israeli-Palestinian tensions are

By VICTORIA MILKO and MARSHALL RITZEL Associated Press PENYABANGAN, Indonesia (AP) — It took a broken air conditioner for Tom Bowling to figure out — after nearly eight months of failure — how to breed the coveted pink-yellow tropical fish known as blotched anthias. Bowling, an ornamental fish breeder based in Palau, had kept the

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma is preparing to execute a man for killing his 9-month-old daughter in 2002. Fifty-seven-year-old Benjamin Cole is set to receive a lethal injection on Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Cole’s defense attorneys don’t dispute that he killed Brianna Cole by forcibly bending

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s national elections have been set for Nov. 19 amid concerns that heavy rain and floods during the year-end monsoon season may deter voters. The Election Commission announced the date Thursday and said nominations would take place Nov. 5, kicking off two weeks of official campaigning. Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan has marked a trade deficit for the 14th month in a row, with exports and imports ballooning to record highs as the declining value of the yen added to the soaring costs of imported energy, food and other goods. The Finance Ministry said Thursday that

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Russia wants the Philippine government to honor a signed contract to purchase 16 military heavy-lift helicopters, which the administration of former President Rodrigo Duterte had cancelled due to fears of possible U.S. sanctions. Moscow’s ambassador to Manila, Marat Pavlov, told reporters Wednesday that the Philippine government

By MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer CORNVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — Strips of fabric rain like multicolored tickertape from a tree, remnants of a child’s favorite shirt or sock or pillowcase. Little medallions stamped with names of the dead twinkle in the breeze. In a grotto, the brokenhearted have clipped prayer cards to branches, left objects

By MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer CORNVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — The leader has the name of her dead baby spelled out in beads on her left wrist, and standing before her is a mother so grief-choked by her young son’s death that she flips on her side at one point in this creekside yoga class

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower on Thursday after Wall Street benchmarks fell and Japan reported a 14th straight month of monthly trade deficits due to high prices for oil and other commodities and a weakening yen. Wall Street futures were mixed while oil prices gained. Japan’s

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Republicans running for Arizona’s three top statewide offices have said they wouldn’t have signed off on the 2020 presidential results if they were in office at the time of that election. They’ve also signaled they want to overhaul the rules for Arizona’s