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South Korea’s major defense giants have amassed roughly $69 billion in order backlogs as of late 2024, according to media reports. Seoul is also accelerating investment in advanced weapons systems and expanding its defense ties, particularly with Europe. With the new EU–South Korea Security and Defence Partnership in 2024 and growing exports of vehicles and artillery, the country has become the second-largest arms supplier to European NATO members. Yet despite that enormous industrial footprint, remarkably few startups have emerged to match or challenge the incumbents. The country’s defense-tech startup scene is still nascent, exposing a wide gap between Korea’s manufacturing…

Olympic gold-medalist Rowdy Gaines has swimming tips if you’re an older swimmer, or returning to the pool after years away.Gaines won three Olympic gold medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Games and is widely known as the “voice of swimming” for his coverage of the Olympics with American network NBC.Swimming is an all-around exercise with water providing mild resistance. It’s low-impact, offers a complete workout and is suitable for all ages.“Of course I’m biased, but I will stack swimming against any other exercise out there, especially as we age,” Gaines told The Associated Press. “And swimming is one of the…

2025 Jeep Cherokee SUVStellantisAUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Jeep is betting Americans still love a good comeback story.It’s a mantra that’s reverberating through the quintessential SUV brand — from its CEO to a marketing campaign with LL Cool J — following yearslong sales and market share declines that have taken a toll on Jeep and its parent company, Stellantis.”This isn’t just a comeback. This is the Jeep brand reclaiming a segment we invented and defined,” Jeep CEO Bob Broderdorf said during a recent media event.Jeep has been in a rut this decade, despite the brand’s well-known off-road capabilities that have carried…

WEST ORANGE, N.J. (AP) — Forget the giraffes, gibbons and leopards. About a dozen visitors at the Turtle Back Zoo gathered one recent morning around the most unusual sight of all.It was a small, light-brown tortoise getting a veterinary checkup. Over the next half-hour, spectators watched through a plate-glass window as the young sulcata tortoise — an endangered species also known as the African spurred tortoise — underwent measurements, X-rays, a blood draw, microchipping and more.Inside the northern New Jersey zoo’s spacious new, publicly visible treatment room, Dr. Kailey Anderson tucked the gel-covered wand of a Doppler machine between the…

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Bissan Younis looked dejected as she stood outside a cluster of tents surrounded by rubble and debris, a wasteland that is a common sight across the Gaza Strip. The tiny encampment was yet another makeshift school that has no room for her teenage son Kareem.“Most of the schools are destroyed,” she told The Associated Press. “Every school I go to tells me there is no room.” More than 600,000 Palestinian children in Gaza have missed the past two years of school because of the war between Israel and the militant Hamas group. Instead of…

With a ceasefire reached last month largely holding, humanitarian officials are working frantically to reopen dozens of makeshift schools in the Gaza Strip. UNICEF estimates that over 630,000 Palestinian children missed out on school during the war. ___ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Students attend a morning assembly at a school set up on the beach in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) Students attend a morning assembly at a school set up on the beach in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel…

Flatpay, which facilitates card payments for SMBs, has joined the ranks of European fintech unicorns — or startups valued at more than $1 billion — a milestone that has driven some of the region’s biggest exits. These include competitors like Adyen, a Dutch payment processing giant that remains far ahead in scale. However, Flatpay’s fresh funding could help it narrow the gap. Flatpay’s bet is that it can challenge larger players by charging small merchants a flat transaction rate to use its card terminals and point-of-sales systems. This focus on a segment that accounts for 99% of European businesses has…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign students enrolled at U.S. colleges in strong numbers this fall despite fears that a Trump administration crackdown would trigger a nosedive, yet there are signs of turbulence as fewer new, first-time students arrived from other countries, according to a new report.Overall, U.S. campuses saw a 1% decrease in international enrollment this fall compared with last year, according to a survey from the Institute of International Education. But that figure is propped up by large numbers of students who stayed in the U.S. for temporary work after graduating. The number of new students entering the United States…

Black Friday has basically become its own travel season. Instead of a single day of dramatic discounts, suppliers now tease offers for weeks, layer incentives and build anticipation across social media and inboxes alike. And travelers feel that energy.Even the most practical, research-driven client can suddenly find themselves hovering over a cruise fare or a resort promo, feeling that little spark of urgency that wasn’t there before. It’s not that the logic has changed; it’s that the psychology has kicked in.  To uncover the emotional and psychological cues that inform consumers’ Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Travel Tuesday booking decisions,…

Ted Danson’s “A Man on the Inside” returning to Netflix for its second season and Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo belting out the “Wicked: For Good” soundtrack are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: Aerosmith teaming up with Yungblud on a new EP, “The Bad Guys 2” hitting Peacock and Jordan Peele looking at Black cowboys in a new documentary series. New movies to stream from Nov. 17-23— “Train Dreams,” (Friday, Nov. 21 on…