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The rival Koreas fired artillery rounds into the sea as part of provocative drills along their disputed sea boundary Friday, in violation of the fragile 2018 inter-Korean agreement.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the United States and China must insist on peaceful coexistence and promised that giant pandas would return to the U.S. — specifically California — by year end.

Soul was a 1970s heartthrob who co-starred as the blond half of the crime-fighting duo "Starsky & Hutch" and topped the music charts with the ballad "Don't Give Up on Us."

The bombings, which killed at least 84, targeted a commemoration for an Iranian general slain in a 2020 U.S. drone strike. Wednesday's event was the worst militant attack to strike Iran in decades.

The organization announced that the rare herding breed is now eligible for thousands of dog shows, including the prominent Westminster Kennel Club show.

Ukrainian authorities said 230 Ukrainian prisoners of war returned home in the first exchange in almost five months. Russia's Defense Ministry said 248 Russian servicemen have been freed.

The move could clear the way for a new long-term phase of war against Hamas. Israel has come under growing international pressure to scale back fighting, which has killed nearly 22,000 Palestinians.

All 379 occupants of the Japan Airlines plane escaped safely after colliding with a Japan coast guard aircraft carrying earthquake relief supplies. Five coast guard crew members died.

A series of powerful earthquakes that hit western Japan left at least 62 people dead Wednesday, as rescue workers fought to save those feared trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings.

It's the first significant drawdown of troops since the war began, and could signal that fighting is being scaled back in some areas. But the biggest city in southern Gaza still is fiercely contested.

Japan dropped its highest-level tsunami alert, issued following a series of major earthquakes, but told residents of coastal areas not to return to their homes as deadly waves could still come.

The chief justice focused on the promise and shortcomings of artificial intelligence in the courts in his report that made no mention of Supreme Court ethics or legal cases involving Donald Trump.