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South Korean intelligence says North has sent troops to aid Russia's war in Ukraine 10/18/2024 09:28am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's spy agency said Friday that North Korea has dispatched troops to support Russia's war against Ukraine. If confirmed, the move would bring a third country into the war and intensify a standoff between North Korea and the West. The South Korean announcement c UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon staying put despite Israeli warnings to move 10/18/2024 09:21am • GENEVA (AP) — Forces in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon are maintaining their positions despite warnings from Israeli Defense Forces to move away, a spokesman for the U.N. force said Friday. Andrea Tenenti of UNIFIL, the interim force in Lebanon, says a “unanimous” Former Netherlands midfielder Kevin Strootman retires from soccer 10/18/2024 08:47am • AMSTERDAM (AP) — Former Netherlands midfielder Kevin Strootman announced his retirement from soccer on Friday. The 34-year-old Strootman played 46 matches for the Netherlands, scoring three goals. He was without a club after his contract with Italian side Genoa expired. He announced his retirement Malaysia to revamp gasoline subsidies and raise taxes in a bid to narrow deficit 10/18/2024 08:43am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia will introduce new taxes and revamp gasoline, education and healthcare subsidies next year as part of aggressive reforms to narrow the country's fiscal deficit, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Friday as he unveiled a national budget for 2025. Anwar told Par Oregon exploited a loophole in its win over Ohio State, part of a long tradition in rule-bending 10/18/2024 07:10am • By his own admission, Oregon coach Dan Lanning and the rest of his staff — currently at 30 and counting — spend “an inordinate amount of time” exploring all kinds of potential situations that may pop up during a game. Some happen. Some don't. Some get saved for a rainy day. And sometimes, th Egypt increases fuel prices by 10% to 17% 10/18/2024 06:34am • CAIRO (AP) — Egypt raised fuel prices Friday by between 10% and 17%, a move likely to impact the cost of both goods and services. The Egyptian government said in a statement on Facebook that the decision was made in order to “reduce the gap between the selling prices of petroleum products and t China's economy grows at a 4.6% rate in the last quarter, falls short of the official 5% target 10/18/2024 06:28am • HONG KONG (AP) — China's economy expanded at an annual rate of 4.6% in the July-September quarter, the government said Friday, in the latest evidence that recent efforts to rev up growth have yet to take hold. The world’s second largest economy slowed from 4.7% annual growth in the previous qua Inside the LeBron numbers: Entering Year 22, James' statistical resume only keeps growing 10/18/2024 06:00am • LeBron James is entering his record-tying 22nd NBA season, a mark that only newly enshrined Basketball Hall of Famer Vince Carter has reached. Obviously, that's not the only number that jumps out when talking about James' career. Already the NBA's career scoring leader and now a four-time Olympic me Rwanda shrugs off 'sportswashing' criticism in pursuit of a winning development formula 10/18/2024 05:25am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — He may be the president of a small, landlocked state in central Africa, but Paul Kagame has always had outsize dreams. In recent months, Rwanda’s president has embarked on perhaps the biggest of them all by pitching to bring a Formula 1 Grand Prix to a country that was mire Romania scrambles fighter jets after an unidentified object breaches its airspace 10/18/2024 05:15am • BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania scrambled four of its fighter jets on Thursday after an unidentified object breached its airspace in the country's southeast near the Black Sea, according to the Ministry of National Defense. The small object, likely a drone, was detected over the Black Sea movin Texas Supreme Court halts execution of man in shaken baby case after lawmakers' last-minute appeal 10/18/2024 04:27am • HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court halted Thursday night’s scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. The late-night ruling to spare for now the life of Robert Rob Dodgers take 3-1 NLCS lead into Game 5 against Mets 10/18/2024 04:01am • Los Angeles Dodgers (98-64, first in the NL West during the regular season) vs. New York Mets (89-73, third in the NL East during the regular season) New York; Friday, 5:08 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Dodgers: Jack Flaherty (13-7, 3.17 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 194 strikeouts); Mets: David Peterson (10-3, 2. Max Muncy becomes first player to reach in 12 straight plate appearances in single postseason 10/18/2024 01:46am • NEW YORK (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Max Muncy became the first player to reach base in 12 consecutive plate appearances during a single postseason. Muncy had three walks and a single in his first four plate appearances Thursday night during Game 4 of the National League Championship Series All-Star 1B Freddie Freeman out of Dodgers' lineup for Game 4 of NLCS against Mets 10/18/2024 01:27am • NEW YORK (AP) — All-Star first baseman Freddie Freeman was out of the Los Angeles Dodgers' starting lineup for Game 4 of the National League Championship Series against the New York Mets. Freeman has been playing with a badly sprained and swollen right ankle throughout the postseason. He also miss Who is Prabowo Subianto, the former general who becomes Indonesia’s new president? 10/18/2024 01:27am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A wealthy ex-general with ties to both Indonesia’s popular outgoing president and the country's dictatorial past will be inaugurated as its leader Sunday. He has promised to continue his predecessor's widely popular policies, but his human rights record has activists, a