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By MALAK HARB Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The International Monetary Fund says the economies of Middle Eastern and North…

By AJIT SOLANKI, KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press MORBI, India (AP) — Military teams were searching Monday for people missing after…

BEIJING (AP) — An official survey shows Chinese manufacturing weakened in October. That adds to downward pressure on the economy as the ruling…

The Associated Press The Federal Reserve delivers an interest rate policy update Wednesday following a two-day meeting of its policymakers. Starbucks…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares have advanced in Asia despite a retreat on Wall Street. Hong Kong jumped more than 3%…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk on Sunday tweeted a link to an unfounded rumor about the attack on House…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer The Big 12 has reached an agreement on a six-year contract extension with ESPN and Fox worth more than…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia resumed its blockade of Ukrainian ports on Sunday, cutting off urgently needed grain…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Workers in a manufacturing facility in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou appear to have left to…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The FIFA World Cup may be bringing as many as 1.2 million fans to Qatar, but…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Powerball jackpot keeps getting larger because players keep losing. It happened again Saturday night as no one matched…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A state watchdog says New York regulators failed to do all they could to sideline a poorly maintained stretch limousine that…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia has begun building a railway linking it to Bulgaria. The project…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The good times might soon be over for California’s government. Tax collections in the…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Halloween treats have a tricky problem: plastic packaging that’s difficult to recycle. As America loads up on…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Pivotal elections in Brazil and the United States will present an early test to Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk…

GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss railway company claimed the record for the world’s longest passenger train Saturday with a trip on one of the most…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press CAPE SOUNION, Greece (AP) — When Stelios Zompanakis quit his job at Greece’s central bank to try his luck at…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland says it has chosen the U.S. government and Westinghouse to build its first nuclear power plant. The announcement is an…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY, TOM KRISHER and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers Twitter’s newly minted owner, the self-described “free speech…