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By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian police say a fugitive walked into a Sydney police station to give himself up almost 30 years after he used a hacksaw blade and bolt cutters to escape from prison. Darko Desic lived in a Sydney beach community during those years before surrendering Sunday morning.

By OLEG CETINIC and THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Health care workers in France face suspension from their jobs if they haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19. Vaccines are compulsory for health care and emergency workers in France and Wednesday is the deadline for such staff to have had at least one. They face

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new scientific report that looks at what each nation is doing to fight climate change finds nearly every country falls short. Wednesday’s report by Climate Action Tracker says only one nation, tiny The Gambia in Africa, has plans in line that would limit warming to the goal set

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Stocks are mostly lower in Asia after the region’s two biggest economies released data that were weaker than expected. Chinese economic activity was lackluster and Japan’s exports in August also failed to meet forecasts. On Wednesday, Wall Street shook off recent doldrums, giving the S&P 500 its biggest gain

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — One of Russia’s most ardent feminists is running for a seat in the State Duma with the goal of enacting a strong law against domestic abuse. Alyona Popova says her candidacy for Russia’s parliament in a Moscow district is the only hope for a law to combat

HONG KONG (AP) — Nine Hong Kong activists and ex-lawmakers have been handed jail sentences of up to 10 months over their roles in last year’s banned Tiananmen Square candlelight vigil. They are part of a group of 12 defendants who pleaded guilty earlier this month to participating in the vigil that was the only

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Associated Press has declared that Gov. Gavin Newsom had survived a recall effort, with a majority of voters choosing not to oust the Democratic governor with just over a year remaining in his first term. But it did not name a victor Tuesday night for

BEIJING (AP) — China is imposing lockdowns and ordering mass testing in cities along its east coast amid the latest surge in COVID-19 cases. Checks have been set up in toll stations around the city of Putian in Fujian province, with a dozen of them closed entirely. The nearby cities of Xiamen and Quanzhou have

By AMY DiPIERRO and PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press STORRS, Conn. (AP) — As a new semester begins amid a resurgence of the coronavirus, 26 of the 50 largest public university campuses in the U.S. are not mandating that students be vaccinated, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. Approaches on enforcement vary widely even

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The chief of the U.N. refugee agency says the international community and the Taliban will need to find a way to deal with each other for the sake of stabilizing Afghanistan. Filippo Grandi said in an interview Tuesday said the world faces a difficult choice. It

By REBECCA SANTANA and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Bands of heavy rain have been pummeling parts of the Alabama Gulf Coast and the Florida Panhandle. It’s the result of moisture pulled up from the Gulf of Mexico by slow-moving Tropical Depression Nicholas. The National Weather Service says Nicholas is expected to

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A rarely seen Tennessee Williams short story confirms his longtime passion for Italy and reveals concerns about how Italians felt about Americans. “The Summer Woman” appears this week in the fall issue of the literary quarterly The Strand Magazine. Williams wrote the story in the

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Abortion providers in Texas say they have seen a sharp drop in patients in the two weeks since the nation’s strictest abortion law took effect. In new court filings in Texas, Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers describe clinics that have turned away more than

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — State police say a prominent South Carolina lawyer tried to arrange his own death this month so his son would get $10 million in life insurance. But authorities say the planned fatal shot only grazed Alex Murdaugh’s head on Sept. 4. The State Law Enforcement Division

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ably fended off Republicans’ recall attempt. He did so by changing the stakes of the contest from a referendum on his own performance and into a partisan fight over Trumpism and the coronavirus. But Tuesday’s recall offered its own lessons. It showed that Republicans’ groundless

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats have begun the serious work of trying to implement President Joe Biden’s expansive spending plan. But getting there will require remarkable legislative nimbleness, since Biden has said the revenue to pay for it must come only from Americans who earn more than $400,000 a

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. military officer is defending his phone calls to his Chinese counterpart during the final months of Donald Trump’s presidency as an effort to avoid misunderstandings and conflict. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, offered his explanation Wednesday

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban are arriving in the U.S., and a handful of former Trump administration officials are working to turn Republicans against them. The former officials are writing position papers, appearing on conservative television outlets and meeting privately with GOP lawmakers

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A small cargo plane has crashed in a steep mountainous forest in Indonesia’s easternmost Papua province, killing all three people on board. An official says rescuers reached the crash site of the Rimbun Air plane and confirmed that all three crew members were dead. He says

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The powerful sister of North Korea’s leader has criticized South Korean President Moon Jae-in and threatened a “complete destruction” of relations hours after Moon said South Korea’s growing missile capabilities will serve as a “sure deterrence” against North Korean provocations. Moon made