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Less spending, high prices and fewer animal sacrifices at this year’s Eid al-Adha celebrations

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Less spending, higher prices and fewer animal sacrifices subdued the usual festive mood as the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha was celebrated around the world. Eid al-Adha, known as the “Feast of Sacrifice,” coincides with the final rites of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

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US declines to label China a currency manipulator, but blasts its transparency policies

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. declined to label China a currency manipulator in a new Treasury report released Thursday, but accuses Beijing of standing out among America’s major trading partners for lacking transparency in its exchange rate policies. Treasury’s semi-annual report to Congress — called Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies

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Supreme Court tosses Mexico’s $10B lawsuit claiming US gunmakers have fueled cartel violence

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out a $10 billion lawsuit Mexico filed against top firearm manufacturers in the U.S. that claimed the companies’ business practices were helping fuel cartel violence plaguing the country. In a victory for the firearm industry, the unanimous ruling tossed out the

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How the Trump administration’s move will affect Harvard’s international students

By ANNIE MA AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to prevent Harvard University from enrolling international students have struck at the core of the Ivy League school’s identity and unsettled current and prospect students around the world. Last month, the government told Harvard’s thousands of current foreign students

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Ukraine’s drone attack on Russian air bases is a lesson for the West on its vulnerabilities

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press The targets were Russian warplanes, including strategic bombers and command-and-control aircraft, worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The weapons were Ukrainian drones, each costing under $1,000 and launched from wooden containers carried on trucks. “Operation Spiderweb,” which Ukraine said destroyed or damaged over 40 aircraft parked near air bases across

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Indonesia arrests foreign nationals in Bali on drugs charges that could carry the death penalty

By FIRDIA LISNAWATI and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities on the tourist island of Bali on Thursday announced the arrests of several foreign nationals, including an Australian, an Indian, and an American, on suspicion of possessing narcotics, charges that could carry the death penalty. Customs officers at Bali’s Ngurah Rai

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5 mayors are suspended from duty as authorities expand the crackdown on Turkey’s opposition

Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish authorities suspended five elected mayors from duty Thursday as part of an ongoing crackdown on the country’s opposition. Separately, prosecutors launched an investigation into the leader of the opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP, over comments made in a speech Wednesday evening. Ozgur Ozel had criticized Istanbul’s chief prosecutor

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Israel says it has recovered the bodies of 2 Israeli-American hostages from the Gaza Strip

By MELANIE LIDMAN, NATALIE MELZER and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has recovered the bodies of two Israeli-American hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack that ignited the war in the Gaza Strip. Israeli strikes overnight and into Thursday meanwhile killed at least 13 people, including three local journalists

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New Zealand Parliament suspends 3 Māori Party lawmakers who performed haka protest

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law. Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke received a seven-day ban and the leaders of her political party, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi, were barred for

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South Korean lawmakers approve special investigations into martial law and Yoon’s wife

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s liberal-led legislature overwhelmingly passed bills Thursday to launch special investigations into former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived imposition of martial law in December and criminal allegations against his wife, targeting the ousted conservative a day after his liberal successor took office. The National Assembly also passed a bill

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Russian strike kills 5 in Ukraine, including a 1-year-old, hours after Trump-Putin call

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press PRYLUKY, Ukraine (AP) — At least five people, including a 1-year-old child, his mother and grandmother, were killed Thursday in a nighttime Russian drone attack on the northern Ukrainian city of Pryluky, officials said. Six drones hit a residential area in the city shortly before dawn, injuring nine others, according

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China issues warrants for alleged Taiwanese hackers and bans a business for pro-independence links

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China issued warrants Thursday for 20 Taiwanese people it said carried out hacking missions in the Chinese mainland on behalf of the island’s ruling party, while separately banning dealings with a Taiwanese company whose owners mainland authorities called “hardcore Taiwan independence supporters.” Police in the southern

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Here are the 12 countries Trump placed under travel bans, and the 7 newly under travel restrictions

By The Associated Press President Donald Trump cited a range of reasons for placing 19 countries under new travel bans or restrictions in the U.S. They include allegations of lax screening of travelers, “a significant terrorist presence” in its territory, a government that wasn’t cooperative enough in accepting deported citizens or residents who were prone

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