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By SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 F) is “on life support” in the final days of the U.N.’s climate talks in Glasgow. In an exclusive interview on Thursday with The Associated Press,

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Jakucho Setouchi, a Buddhist nun and one of Japan’s best-known authors known for novels depicting passionate women and her translation of “The Tale of Genji” into modern language, has died. She was 99. Setouchi was already an established novelist before she shaved her head and became a

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Officials from almost 200 nations have worked through the night at the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, trying to hammer out agreements on a range of tricky topics in time for a Friday deadline. Among the outstanding issues was international carbon trading, a subject that’s nagged

By ANDREW MELDRUM and CARA ANNA Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa’s last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country’s white minority rule, has died at the age of 85. The F.W. de Klerk Foundation confirmed on Thursday that

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — For 30 years, Nancy Chen ate lunch every day with her parents at their apartment. After her parents caught COVID-19 and her father died, she now eats lunch alone with her mother. The island has been hailed as a pandemic success story. But Chen and other

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s national disease control center has reported a record-high number of more than 50,000 daily coronavirus cases. The infections spike comes as German lawmakers are mulling new legislation that would pave the way for new coronavirus measures. The Robert Koch Institute registered 50,196 new cases on Thursday,

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Leaders of China’s ruling Communist Party have set the stage for President Xi Jinping to extend his rule next year, praising his role in China’s rise as an economic and strategic power and approving a political history that gives him status alongside the most important party figures.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Security forces in Poland are being tasked with securing the nation’s eastern border amid a migration fight with Belarus while also protecting the capital and other cities during Independence Day marches organized by far-right groups. Poland has objected since the summer to the increasing number of refugees and migrants trying to

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Commission has raised its growth forecast for the year for the 19 countries using the euro. The EU’s executive branch said Thursday that the economy was bouncing back from the worst of the pandemic as people went back to work in customer-facing jobs. But it lowered the forecast for

NEW DELHI (AP) — At least 14 people have died in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu during days of heavy rains. Several districts in the state are on high alert, bracing for more torrents as a depression over the southwest Bay of Bengal is set to cross northern Tamil Nadu on Thursday evening.

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has sent a pair of nuclear-capable long-range bombers to patrol the skies over Belarus and to underline close defense ties between the two allies amid tensions with the West. The Russian Defense Ministry said the two Tu-22M3 strategic strike bombers practiced “performing joint tasks with the

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leaders are preparing a political history that would give President Xi Jinping status beside the ruling Communist Party’s most important figures, setting the stage for Xi to extend his rule next year. A meeting of some 200 Central Committee leaders that began Monday was considering a resolution on the party’s major

By DAVID RISING and SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia is dismissing as “politically motivated” sanctions imposed by the United States on two senior defense officials over allegations of graft, accompanied by a broader warning of systemic corruption in the Southeast Asian nation. A Cambodian government spokesman says the country was

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police say they’re pushing to investigate a U.S. diplomat to find if he intentionally fled following a traffic accident in Seoul. Police say the diplomat’s car rear-ended a taxi in Seoul on Wednesday but kept moving without stopping. The taxi chased the diplomat’s

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares are mixed after a worrisome report on U.S. inflation that slammed into the bond market and knocked stocks lower on Wall Street. In early trading in Europe, shares rose in France and Britain, but fell in Germany. In Japan, where investors are awaiting an

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has met with Indonesian officials to discuss closer cooperation in future technologies, cybersecurity and economic relations as part of British efforts to deepen ties to Southeast Asia after leaving the European Union. Truss says she and Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi discussed

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Duchess of Sussex has apologized for misleading a British court about the extent of her cooperation with the authors of a sympathetic book about her and Prince Harry. The former Meghan Markle sued a U.K. newspaper for publishing a letter she wrote to her estranged father.

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has issued a press statement expressing deep concern about ongoing violence in Myanmar, whose military-installed government is using force against opponents. The Security Council’s action comes as Myanmar’s army appears to be undertaking a major offensive in the country’s northwest amid warnings that

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command has met with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and reaffirmed America’s commitment to achieving a free and open Indo-Pacific despite rising tensions amid China’s increasingly assertive military actions. Adm. John C. Aquilino was in Tokyo following a three-day joint session

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Officials say a fire at a COVID-19 hospital in Romania has killed two people. The blaze in the city of Ploiesti on Thursday morning was the fourth fatal fire to break out in a Romanian COVID-19 hospital during the pandemic. Authorities say 21 patients were receiving