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© AFP via Getty ImagesUS consumer sentiment ticked up from historic lows more than expected in August, as easing inflation improved consumers’ outlook and price expectations fell to their lowest level in eight months.The widely-followed consumer sentiment index in a University of Michigan survey rose to a final reading of 58.2 in August. That…

South Korea is working toward a resolution of the long-pending issue of wartime labor compensation that has soured bilateral relations, a senior official of Japan's Foreign Ministry said Friday, ahead of an impending court ruling in Seoul over the envisioned liquidation of Japanese corporate assets. The official told…

Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters blocked the entrances to the facilities of military suppliers in the United Kingdom and the United States, demanding an end to arms sales to Israel. They were joined in their rallies by trade unionists, holding banners and Palestinian flags outside a BAE Systems factory in southeastern England on Friday,…

Foreign affairs commission delays vote on Sweden’s NATO application after lawmakers express reservations.The Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs commission has delayed a vote on Sweden’s NATO membership bid in a further setback to the Nordic country’s hopes of joining the Western alliance after 18 months of waiting. Chairman Fuat Oktay said the…

Prison cells installed at the Philharmonic Hall in Mariupol, Ukraine, in this image released via social media on August 6. (Mariupol City Council/Reuters) There are growing concerns over the trials of prisoners of war scheduled to take…

Yoshitomo Tsutsugo. (Getty/Kyodo) The Pittsburgh Pirates have released Yoshitomo Tsutsugo, the National League club announced Friday, enabling the Japanese first baseman to seek other opportunities. Pittsburgh designated the 30-year-old former NPB slugger for assignment Wednesday in order to make room on the 40-man roster.…

When is a house an Ikea set? In the case of Turkey Run, a two-bedroom residence built around 1836 in Midlothian, the transformation occurred for preservation. Now, the house needs a home. Jeffrey O’Dell’s “Chesterfield County Historic Sites and Structures” details that James Hill Spears, involved with the Midlothian coal mining…

A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect through 8 a.m. Sunday for parts of central and southern Iowa, areas that are seeing the first snow of the season. Accumulations of 1 to 3 inches are likely along and southeast of a line extending from Marshalltown, Des Moines, and Atlantic, with isolated possibilities around Lamoni of around 4 inches.…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas election officials on Monday said online news personality Cenk Uygur, who was born in Turkey, can't appear on the state's Democratic presidential primary ballot next year.The determination comes weeks after Uygur proclaimed that he had become the first naturalized citizen on a presidential ballot after filing…

The 10 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles was shut down indefinitely in both directions early Saturday after two wooden pallet yards caught fire, damaging an overpass and destroying several vehicles, including a firetruck, authorities said.Westbound and eastbound lanes of the heavily traveled freeway are closed between Alameda Street and Santa Fe…