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Spotify launches audiobook store with some 300,000 titles

By The Associated Press
Sep 20, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The expanding audio books market has a major new retailer: Spotify. On Tuesday, the music streaming service announced its long-rumored audiobook initiat...
Company loses bid to recover payout for Dubai hotel fire

By MALAK HARB
Sep 20, 2022 7:00 am - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - An insurance company that was ordered to pay more than a billion dirhams in damages for a 2015 New Year's Eve fire in Dubai has lost a...
Turkish leader to United Nations: Be 'much more influential'

By AYA BATRAWY
Sep 20, 2022 7:00 am - UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Turkey's leader, overseeing a nation encircled by regional disputes, used his speech at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to shine a spotlight o...
Maury Wills, base-stealing shortstop for Dodgers, dies at 89

By BETH HARRIS
Sep 20, 2022 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Maury Wills, who intimidated pitchers with his base-stealing prowess as a shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers on three World Series championship tea...
Migrants sue Florida governor over Martha's Vineyard flights

The Associated Press
Sep 20, 2022 7:00 am - BOSTON (AP) - Venezuelan migrants flown to the upscale Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his transportation secretary Tuesday ...
DP World wins another ruling in battle over Djibouti port

The Associated Press
Sep 20, 2022 7:00 am - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Dubai-based shipping giant DP World said Tuesday it has won another ruling in a longstanding legal battle over the operation of a stra...
Ukraine war thrusts German climate action into spotlight

By AYA BATRAWY
Sep 20, 2022 7:00 am - UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Germany remains committed to phasing out coal as a source of power by 2030 even as it reactivates coal-fired power plants, the country's climate en...
France probes threats against Russian prison rights activist

The Associated Press
Sep 20, 2022 7:00 am - PARIS (AP) - French authorities are investigating death threats against a Russian rights activist who exposes abuses in Russian prisons and says he was the target of a p...
Locked Up: The prison labor that built business empires

By MARGIE MASON and ROBIN McDOWELL
Sep 20, 2022 7:00 am - More than 150 years ago, a prison complex known as the Lone Rock stockade operated at one of the biggest coal mines in Tennessee. It was powered largely by African Ameri...
'Serial' host: Evidence that freed Syed was long available

By BRIAN WITTE
Sep 20, 2022 7:00 am - The creator of a true-crime podcast that helped free a Maryland man imprisoned for two decades said Tuesday that she feels a mix of emotions over how long it took author...

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