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AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Less than two weeks before his 100th birthday, former President Jimmy Carter is receiving an award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation. The foundation announced Thursday that Carter had won the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, named for the late diplomat. In 2002, Carter was

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England is keeping its main interest rate unchanged at 5% despite a big cut from the U.S. Federal Reserve, its first since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic more than four years ago. The decision Thursday was widely expected amid ongoing concerns about inflation within the bank’s

Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan says China’s ban on imports of its fruit, vegetables, seafood and other goods violate trade rules, in the latest ratcheting up of tensions between the self-governing island republic and its massive neighbor, which has vowed to annex Taiwan by force. The Taiwanese government’s Mainland Affairs Council said Thursday

MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities arrested a 32-year-old man for the death of two police officers in February when a speedboat suspected to belong to drug smugglers smashed into their patrol craft, Spain’s Civil Guard said Thursday.The incident occurred on Feb 9, when the Civil Guard craft was on patrol identifying speedboats spotted in the

AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — The six-year-old criminal case of Greg Kelly, an American ensnared in the scandal of Nissan’s former boss Carlos Ghosn has turned a page in a Japanese court, with the judge promising a verdict in February. Kelly’s lawyer Yoichi Kitamura demanded that the court deliver “justice,” using the English word,

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian police on Thursday detained the CEO and other top leaders of an Islamic business group that is under investigation after hundreds of children believed to be sexually abused were rescued this month from welfare homes linked to the group. The national police chief said 12 men and seven women

Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court has sentenced the first two people under a tough new Hong Kong national security law, including a man who was given 14 months in prison for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan. A second man received 10 months for writing pro-independence messages on the

ROME (AP) — About a thousand residents were evacuated in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna after it was hit by torrential rains and severe flooding overnight, local media reported Thursday. Rivers flooded in three of the region’s provinces — Ravenna, Bologna and Faenza — as local mayors asked people to stay on upper floors

Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has given the green light for Catholics to continue flocking to a southern Bosnian village where children reported seeing visions of the Virgin Mary. The Vatican’s doctrine office didn’t declare that the reported apparitions in Medjugorje were authentic or of supernatural origin. And it flagged concerns about contradictions

AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Journalists at a news site that covers issues facing the Haitian community in the United States say they’ve been harassed and intimidated with racist messages for covering the false story about immigrants eating the pets of people in Springfield, Ohio. One editor at the Haitian Times was “swatted”

Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Relentless violence is devastating Sudan, and large-scale fighting has escalated in and around El Fasher. That’s the only capital in Sudan’s western Darfur region that’s not held by paramilitary forces. The United Nations acting humanitarian chief Joyce Msuya told the Security Council on Wednesday that famine has already struck

Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankans who usually vote along religious and ethnic lines will be keeping another factor in mind when they vote Saturday on a new president. Sri Lanka was in the midst of economic collapse and political chaos when Ranil Wickremesinghe took on the presidency in 2022. Things have

Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese state media say the second trial for real estate tycoon Truong My Lan — who was sentenced to death for financial fraud in April — started on Thursday.  The 67-year-old chairperson of the real estate company Van Thinh Phat was convicted for orchestrating Vietnam’s biggest ever financial fraud

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to supply some 200,000 Korean children to parents overseas, despite years of evidence they were being procured through questionable or downright unscrupulous means, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found. Those children grew up and

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As the plane descended into Seoul, Robert Calabretta swaddled himself in a blanket, his knees tucked into his chest like a baby in the womb. A single tear ran down his cheek. The 34-year-old felt like a newborn — he was about to meet his parents for the

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump, following an apparent assassination attempt on him on Sunday, claimed that overheated rhetoric from Democrats was responsible for him being under threat. It turns out, records show, that threats come with the office that he once held and is trying to win again, and occur far

Associated Press KAVUMU, Congo (AP) — Health authorities have struggled to contain outbreaks of mpox in Congo, a huge central African country where a myriad of existing problems makes stemming the spread particularly hard. Last month, the World Health Organization declared the outbreaks in Congo and about a dozen other African countries a global health

Associated Press The scientific director for the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year while on its way to the Titanic wreckage testified that the sub had malfunctioned just prior to the fatal dive. Appearing before a U.S. Coast Guard panel Thursday, Steven Ross told the board about a platform issue the