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By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — The first daily fast of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan began Thursday, as hundreds of millions of Muslims worldwide enter a four-week period of worship. The observance comes at a time when numerous countries and governments across the Middle East are taking tentative steps towards

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Thursday after the Federal Reserve raised a key interest rate, while noting the end may be near for its economy-crunching hikes to interest rates. The Fed raised its key overnight rate by a quarter of a percentage point, the same size as

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer Aliyah Boston recalls her parents prodding her to be more active on social media, to extend her brand as her basketball prowess began to draw national attention. She said she would be more active — and then post just one photo in two months, which is no way for

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — South Korea’s unification minister and senior Japanese government officials have reaffirmed their close cooperation in response to North Korea’s escalating missile threats at a rare meeting, a sign of a further thaw in relations that comes only a week after their leaders agreed to work past their

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister says his government has ”no intention” to return to four settlements in the occupied West Bank dismantled in 2005 under a law that was repealed by the Israeli parliament this week. Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement on Wednesday comes after the Biden administration summoned Israel’s ambassador

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers are preparing to vote on whether to allow penalties on oil companies for price gouging. The bill would empower state regulators to penalize oil companies if their profits surpass a certain threshold. Regulators would decide what that threshold is and how much the penalty

By SAM METZ Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A neuropsychologist who treated the man suing Gwyneth Paltrow over a 2016 ski collision cast aspersions on the testimony of medical experts hired by the celebrity’s legal team — and argued that, as his personal doctor, she was better suited to speak about 76-year-old Terry

By R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Civil liberties groups and defense attorneys are outraged at the domestic terrorism charges that have been levied against 23 people who were arrested after a masked group attacked an Atlanta-area police training center construction site. The suspects were taken into custody March 5 at a music festival

By TED SHAFFREY Associated Press MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) — Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman is a TikTok star at age 85, thanks to her 17-year-old grandson. In the family living room in Morristown, New Jersey, he records short videos of his grandmother reminiscing about life in 1944 and 1945 when she was a 6-year-old child at

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Senior Chinese and Filipino diplomats are meeting in Manila to review their relations amid thorny issues. Those include Beijing’s alarm over a Philippine decision to allow the U.S. military to expand its presence to a northern region facing the Taiwan Strait and escalating spats in the

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A former New Zealand soldier who co-founded a charity to help struggling veterans has been killed in Ukraine, authorities said Thursday. Ukrainian authorities had confirmed the death of Kane Te Tai and the New Zealand embassy in Poland was trying to find out more details,