NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks steadied on Friday after an encouraging update on inflation helped calm a Wall Street that's been wracked by worries about how artificial-intelligence technology may upend the business world. The S&P 500 barely budged. The Dow Jones Industrial rose 48 points, or 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite slipped 0.2%.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Envoys from Moscow and Kyiv met in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday for another round of U.S.-brokered talks on ending the almost four-year war, as a Russian attack using cluster munitions killed seven people at a market in Ukraine.

BANGKOK (AP) – Myanmar ‘s military government ordered East Timor ‘s senior diplomat to leave the country after judicial authorities from the fellow Southeast Asian country accepted a criminal complaint against Myanmar’s armed forces, state media said Monday.

MADRID (AP) – Spain plans to ban social media access for children under 16, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Tuesday, in a move designed to shield young people from the harms of online content.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea said Monday it completed a new housing district in Pyongyang for families of North Korean soldiers killed while fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine, the latest effort by leader Kim Jong Un to honor the war dead.

CAIRO (AP) – The United States and the United Nations are seeking to rally international support for humanitarian aid to war-ravaged Sudan, kicking off a new Sudan Humanitarian Fund with $700 million in contributions from the United Arab Emirates and the U.S.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Iranian officials reached out to the wider Middle East on Wednesday over the threat of a possible U.S. military strike on the country, while the value of Iran’s currency reached a new low a month since the start of protests that soon spread nationwide and sparked a bloody crackdown.