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What’s for dinner? Lately, at Apral Jack’s house, it’s whatever is on sale. Jack, 50, scouts an app for deals at her local supermarket before she buys groceries. When she reaches the store, she looks in the weekly circular for coupons she might have missed. If shelf prices look too high, she tries to find lower prices someplace else. “The apples went up here, the ones I eat, so now […]

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres appealed to the international community Saturday to support the people in Syria at the start of his first visit to the Arab country as U.N. chief, nearly two years after the fall of Bashar Assad. Guterres ‘ visit is the first by a UN secretary-general to the Syrian capital since 2009. Shortly after his arrival, Guterres held talks with Syria’s interim president, […]

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Health workers at an Ebola treatment center in eastern Congo went on strike Saturday over payment issues, disrupting care for patients in the epicenter of the country’s rapidly growing outbreak. The number of confirmed cases of Ebola in Congo has reached 2,973, including 1,309 deaths, according to government data released Friday in what authorities say is the fastest-growing outbreak on record. Activities at the Elikya Ebola […]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Supporters of the International Criminal Court were trying to chart a course forward on Saturday, a day after the global institution was plunged into uncharted territory following the ouster of its chief prosecutor over allegations of sexual misconduct. A lengthy and bruising process ended swiftly and decisively on Friday, when a large majority of the court’s 125 member states voted to remove Karim Khan from […]

BORYEONG, South Korea (AP) — Tourists played and frolicked during the opening of the annual messy-but-fun Boryeong Mud Festival in South Korea. ____ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

Economics has a term for what U.S. grocery prices have done in recent years: rockets and feathers. Rockets, because the cost of food eaten at home zoomed up in the aftermath of the pandemic. Feathers, because once prices rise, they’re slow to come down. That’s been frustrating for Americans hit with the sharpest increase in grocery prices in 50 years. While food price inflation peaked in 2022, when prices jumped […]

By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank, July 25 (Reuters) – Palestinian officials welcomed UNESCO’s designation of Sebastia in the occupied West Bank as a World Heritage site, hoping it will prevent Israel extending its control at the ancient village, while Israel condemned it as a political decision. Sebastia, in the northern West Bank, has archaeological remnants from successive periods dating back at least to the 9th-century BC capital of the […]

By Aftab Ahmed, Saurabh Sharma and Sumit Khanna NEW DELHI/JHUNJHUNU/AHMEDABAD, July 25 (Reuters) – The prospect of retaking one of India’s most competitive exams was so daunting for 19-year-old Sheikh Sana that a day before the test, the pressure became unbearable. Instead of preparing again for the exam, she wrote “I am sorry” on a plain sheet of paper and took her own life, her family said. Her death, along […]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone strike killed three people in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region, local officials said Saturday, while Romania shot down a drone over its airspace for the second time in two days. Sumy regional head Oleh Hryhorov said Saturday that a large fire broke out when a drone struck a “civilian facility,” adding that the victims were drivers for private Ukrainian postal and courier service Nova […]