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By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has filed his candidacy for a senate seat in next year’s elections, walking back on his vow that he would retire from politics when his term ends. The announcement on Monday prompted rights groups to say the leader is working to “evade”

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government extended its COVID-19 booster programs to younger people Monday, hoping to stave off a fresh wave of infections during the colder winter months. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization said healthy people aged 40 to 49 will also be eligible for a vaccine booster shot six months after their

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares have advanced in Europe and Asia ahead of virtual talks between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The talks were to take place late Monday U.S. time. Benchmarks rose in Paris, Tokyo and Frankfurt but fell in Shanghai. Plans for stimulus in Japan overshadowed news that

BANGKOK (AP) — Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson says American journalist Danny Fenster has been released from prison in Myanmar. Richardson said in a statement Monday that Fenster had been released from prison and handed over to him in Myanmar and would be soon on his way home via Qatar. Fenster, the

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish police say they have arrested two adults on suspicion of murder after two children fell from “a great height” and one of them died. Those arrested are a man and a woman, police said. The children who were reportedly were siblings and both under the age of 10, were rushed

By ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN Associated Press KABUL (AP) — Police say a roadside bomb has exploded on a busy avenue in the Afghan capital Kabul, wounding two people. Witnesses say the blast went off as a taxi passed by in the Kota-e Sangi district of western Kabul, injuring a man in the street and a

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A team from the U.N. nuclear agency has arrived in Japan to assess preparations for the release into the ocean of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant. Japanese officials say the experts are to meet with Japanese officials and visit the Fukushima Daiichi plant

LONDON (AP) — British police and intelligence services are working to determine whether a taxi explosion outside a Liverpool hospital was a deliberate attack. The city’s mayor said the cab driver’s quick actions averted a potential disaster. The male occupant of a taxi was killed and its driver injured when the vehicle burst into flames

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is set to expand sanctions against Belarus to include airlines, travel agents and individuals accused of helping to lure migrants to Europe as part of a “hybrid attack” against the bloc by President Alexander Lukashenko. The 27-country EU has already slapped a series of sanctions on Lukashenko and senior

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press CHIOS, Greece (AP) — Among the inmates of Chios prison, nestled in the warren of narrow streets of this Greek island’s main town, three young men from Afghanistan and Somalia are serving dramatically long sentences: 50 years for two of them, a staggering 142 for the third. But these are

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A groom at his wedding, a construction worker and father of four, an ambulance driver: All three are among the thousands who have died in Ethiopia’s brutal year-long war that began in Tigray. The death toll is one of the biggest unknowns of the war. But

By CARA ANNA, DAVID KEYTON and NAT CASTANEDA Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Ethiopia’s war is now one year old. Its dead are in the handwritten lists of names smuggled out of a region cut off from the world. They’re in images of people shot and tossed off a cliff, tortured and pushed into a

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, has handled 20% more passenger traffic in the third quarter of 2021 compared to the same period last year. The airport’s chief executive said Monday that signals cautious optimism for the ravaged aviation industry even

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has began allowing fully vaccinated foreign tourists to enter the country on regular flights, in the latest easing of coronavirus restrictions as infections fall and vaccinations rise. This is the first time India has allowed foreign tourists on commercial flights to enter the country since

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares are mostly higher in Asia as plans for stimulus in Japan overshadowed news that its economy contracted in the last quarter. Investors are awaiting the outcome of a virtual meeting between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Benchmarks rose in Tokyo, Seoul and Hong Kong but

By EDNA TARIGAN and ACHMAD IBRAHIM Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Hundreds of Afghan refugees and asylum seekers living in Indonesia have rallied in front of the U.N. refugee agency office in Jakarta to urge it to speed up their resettlement. They held large banners reading “Our families are in danger. Please act now”

BEIJING (AP) — China has confined nearly 1,500 university students to their dormitories and hotels following an outbreak of COVID-19 in the northeastern city of Dalian. The order was issued Sunday after several dozen new cases were reported at Zhuanghe University City. Students are attending class remotely and having their meals delivered to their rooms.

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Despite his suicide, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein will still be put on trial in a sense in the coming weeks by a proxy: his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell. The 59-year-old Maxwell is to go before a federal jury in Manhattan later this month

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. and Japanese officials have agreed to launch talks aimed at settling a dispute over American tariffs on imports of Japanese steel and aluminum. The agreement came in a meeting between visiting U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Japan’s industry minister, Koichi Hagiuda. Japan hopes to convince