A US Marine was arrested on suspicion of killing an Okinawan woman at a hotel in Naha, the prefectural capital.

He has denied the allegations, and the case remains under investigation.

Japan and the United States have begun talks to review rules for troops off base and consider ways to prevent similar incidents.

The discussions will cover the military’s liberty policy, education and joint patrols by US forces and Japanese police.

Federal agents searched the Washington home of Ilhan Omar, a Democratic member of Congress from Minnesota.

The Justice Department said the search was carried out under a court-authorised warrant as part of an ongoing criminal investigation, but did not name Omar or explain the investigation.

News reports linked the search to a fraud inquiry about immigration paperwork filed by Omar’s late father when she was a child; officials have not confirmed that link.

Omar, who came to the United States from Somalia as a child, said the search was an attempt to target political opponents.

German police detained two Turkish citizens over a fire at a Starlink station in Masovia, central Poland, in late September.

Polish officials say the suspects will face charges of sabotage and acting for a foreign intelligence service, and will be tried in Poland.

The station, owned by state telecommunications company Exatel, carries internet traffic through Poland, including to Ukraine.

The fire was intended to disrupt internet access, including for Ukraine’s military, according to Polish officials, but the station remained operational.

CropPak has launched a cannabis packaging business and website for growers and brands in Canada and the United States.

The company is based in Abbotsford, British Columbia, and says its business is built specifically around the needs of cannabis producers.

It coordinates production, printing and shipping directly with manufacturers, using a factory-direct model.

Growers can explore custom formats, including printed bags, jars, tubes and child-resistant packaging.

Apple announced a new Apple TV 4K at a smart home-focused event on Oct.

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The streaming box looks much like its predecessor, last updated in 2022, but has an A19 chip and Wi-Fi 7 support.

Built-in microphones let users talk to Siri hands-free, without speaking into the remote or a HomePod.

Fabio Calonego, a Brazilian midfielder at Persija Jakarta, is considering Indonesian citizenship and the possibility of playing for Indonesia's national football team.

He says people in Indonesia have suggested he become a citizen, and he feels comfortable living and playing there.

He says he needs four more years in Indonesia's league without playing in another country before he can apply, though he would still need to meet the applicable requirements.

Playing for Indonesia is not his main priority right now, and he says he is taking his career year by year.

Thélyson Orélien denies that AI wrote any sentence of his novel, “C’était ça ou mourir.”

The Canadian-Haitian writer says he used tools for research but wrote the book himself.

He apologized and accepted responsibility for plagiarizing texts by established authors after moving to Canada.

He says he began writing the novel in Quebec in 2017 and finished a first draft in 2019.

A 39-year-old woman in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, has been reported as the state’s sixth measles-related death in less than two months.

The woman was unvaccinated and had underlying medical conditions, the county coroner’s office said.

The coroner’s spokesperson said the probable cause was an acute cardiac event that may have resulted from measles complications.

Pennsylvania has confirmed 1,136 measles cases and 219 hospitalizations, with two-thirds of cases in adults.