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ISTANBUL (AP) — A wildfire is burning in the Turkish port town of Marmaris, which is a tourist destination on the Aegean Sea. The Mugla province branch of the Turkish Foreign Affairs Ministry said the fire erupted on Wednesday in forests around the Yalancibogaz area. Images showed heavy smoke behind lush hills that bordered the

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Mortgage rates have jumped, home sales have slumped and credit cards and auto loans have gotten pricier. Savings rates are slightly juicier, though. Many economists say they fear that a recession is inevitable in the coming months. With it could come job losses that could cause

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press CAYEY, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Fiona strengthened into a Category 4 storm Wednesday after devastating Puerto Rico, then lashing the Dominican Republic and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It was forecast to squeeze past Bermuda later this week. The storm has been blamed for directly causing at least four

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United States has urged the International Court of Justice to throw out a case brought by Iran seeking to claw back some $2 billion worth of frozen Iranian assets that the U.S. Supreme Court awarded to victims of a 1983 bombing in Lebanon and

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Devastating floods in Pakistan’s worst-hit province have killed 10 more people in the past day, including four children, officials said Wednesday as the U.N. children’s agency renewed its appeal for $39 million to help the most vulnerable flood victims. Only a third of the sum in the

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The parents of a Malaysian man who died after falling prey to a human trafficking scheme have appealed to the government to rescue other scam victims trapped in Myanmar and Cambodia. Goi Zhen Feng left for Bangkok in January to meet a woman he had

By RONALD MONTOYA Edmunds Look into just about any new car and you’ll either find a touchscreen or “virtual buttons” that seek to approximate the function of a mechanical button. The appeal of touchscreens and virtual buttons on new cars is to make the vehicle appear sleeker and pack more features into limited dashboard real

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Gibraltar Port authorities say they are working to mitigate the impact of a new oil leak from a partly sunken ship in its bay area. Bad weekend weather triggered the leak, which is affecting fishing in both the British territory and in a town in nearby in

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters have rescued a 13-year-old blind dog that fell into a hole at a California construction site. KABC-TV reports that the dog, named Cesar, lives next to the site in Pasadena with his owner. Cesar apparently wandered onto the site and fell Tuesday night into the hole, which was about 15

MADRID (AP) — Spain has fined delivery company Glovo nearly 79 million euros ($78 million) for violating a 2021 law that obliged app-based food delivery platforms to make their riders full employees. Spanish Labor Minister Yolanda Díaz said Glovo had continued to treat some 10,000 regular riders as self-employed workers when they should have been

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Hundreds of police have raided 24 properties across Germany linked to Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, in connection with alleged breaches of sanctions and money laundering rules. Prosecutors in Frankfurt and Munich said Wednesday in separate statements that some 250 state

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somali authorities say militia members in central Somalia have helped kill scores of al-Shabab militants in an ongoing operation against the Islamic extremist rebels that is receiving air support from the United States. The Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism said in a statement issued Tuesday

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The central idea behind House and Senate bills to reform an arcane federal election law is simple: Congress should not decide presidential elections. The bills are a response to the Jan. 6 insurrection and ex-President Donald Trump’s efforts to find a way around the Electoral Count

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares mostly declined Wednesday as investors looked ahead to a widely expected interest rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve to try to tamp down the highest inflation in decades. France’s CAC 40 fell nearly 0.1% in early trading to 5,974.93, while Germany’s DAX lost

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press NOVOMYKOLAIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian farms near the front lines are facing constant shelling that is damaging fields, equipment and buildings and making it difficult to plant and harvest crops. At one farm, a worker says returning to growing grain “will be difficult.” Agriculture is a critical part of Ukraine’s

By SAM McNEIL and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — Authorities in the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank announced that a truce has been reached to end violent clashes between militants and Palestinian security forces. The violence highlights deep disenchantment with the internationally backed Palestinian leadership. Wednesday’s deal to

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Survivors of torture and other atrocities under Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos are marking his martial law declaration 50 years ago by pressing their demand for justice and apology from his son, who is now the president in a stunning reversal of his family’s fortunes. Activists held

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Australian Football League says it is investigating “very serious allegations” made by Indigenous players that they were racially abused by a coach at Hawthorn in Melbourne. A former Hawthorn player has told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. that he was told by the AFL club’s then-coach to terminate his partner’s pregnancy.

By KARL RITTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilization of reservists in Russia on Wednesday, risking a deeply unpopular step that follows a string of humiliating setbacks for his troops nearly seven months after invading Ukraine. It’s the first call-up in Russia since World War II and