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Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has accused rival South Korea of flying drones to its capital to drop anti-North Korean propaganda leaflets and threatened to respond with force if such flights occur again. South Korea issued a vague denial of the allegation. North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The Asian Football Confederation says an upcoming World Cup qualifying game won’t take place in Iran because of escalating tensions in the region. The AFC switched the venue for the Oct. 15 soccer game between Iran and Qatar from the Iranian city of Mashhad to Dubai in the United Arab

Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says it’s important that allies’  aid to Ukraine doesn’t decrease next year. He received a pledge of a new weapons package from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz Friday on a European tour meant to win backing for his “victory plan” aimed at ending the war with Russia. Zelenskyy

AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan’s net income fell 2% in the third quarter as the bank had to set aside more money to cover bad loans, but the results topped Wall Street estimates and shares rose in morning trading. Net income fell to $12.9 billion from $13.2 billion in the year-ago quarter,

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli airstrike killed two Lebanese soldiers and wounded three on Friday, Lebanon’s military said, just hours after the Israeli military fired on the headquarters of U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, injuring two of them for the second day in a row. The incidents entangling both Lebanon’s official army —

Associated Press SHENGJIN, Albania (AP) — Italian government has formally opened two centers in Albania where it plans to process male migrants intercepted in international waters. Italian Embassy officials say is not clear yet when the first migrants will arrive. Under a five-year agreement signed last November, up to 3,000 migrants picked up by the

Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The leaders of Kenya and Haiti are urging international partners to honor their commitment to the U.N.-backed peacekeeping mission in Haiti, saying the mission needs more resources and that its budget will run out in March 2025. Kenya, which leads the mission to quell gang violence in the Caribbean

AP Technology Writer Hours after the artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton won a Nobel Prize in physics, he drove a rented car to Google’s California headquarters to celebrate. Hinton doesn’t work at Google anymore. Nor did the longtime professor at the University of Toronto do his pioneering research at the tech giant. But his impromptu

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say a fire broke out in the engine room of an oil tanker off Germany’s Baltic Sea coast and all seven crew members were rescued. The German Maritime Search and Rescue Service says it was alerted to the fire on the German-flagged vessel, the Annika, on Friday morning. The tanker

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities say a nighttime Russian missile strike on Odesa has killed at least four people, including a 16-year-old girl. It is the latest in a series of attacks this week on the southern Ukrainian region that likely are intended to disrupt the country’s grain exports. Local officials say four

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities say more than 230 migrants have reached Greece in small boats over the past two days, including a rare case of a crossing from north Africa to Greece’s southern mainland. Nearly half the arrivals announced Friday were people who took a new route from eastern Libya that has emerged this

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Nobuyo Oyama, the raspy voice of Doraemon, the beloved cartoon robotic cat from the future, has died. She was 90. Her agency says Oyama, who voiced the blue-and-white robotic cat for more than a quarter century, died of natural causes on Sept. 29. Created by the cartoonist Fujiko F. Fujio

AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Phones hold so much of our digital lives — emails, social media and bank accounts, photos, chat messages and more — that if they ever get stolen or go missing, it can cause major disruption beyond just the loss of a device. In some places, phone thefts have surged

Associated Press The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons. Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the award was made as the “taboo against the use of nuclear weapons

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has met Iran’s president at a time when Tehran is supplying weapons for Moscow’s war in Ukraine and concerns are growing over escalating attacks between Israel and Iran and its militant allies. Russian state media say Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian discussed the situation in the

Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia says Egypt has offered to deploy peacekeeping troops to the Horn of Africa nation in a security partnership that is emerging as the mandate of a long-time group of African Union peacekeepers winds down. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi on Thursday attended a summit in the Eritrean capital,