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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana has opened an office in South Korea to attract foreign investment to the state’s energy, electric vehicle and semiconductor sectors, the Indiana Economic Development Corporation said Tuesday.

“Indiana’s new Seoul office underscores the importance of the state’s deepening relationships with Korean companies and their increased interest in a dynamic Hoosier workforce and economy,” Secretary of Commerce Brad Chambers said in a prepared statement.

The office opened July 1, the Indianapolis Business Journal reported.

FILE - In this file photo provided on June 19, 2023, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, attends an enlarged plenary meeting of the ruling Workers' Party's Central Committee, which was held between June 16 and 18, at the party's headquarters in Pyongyang, North Korea. South Korea said Wednesday, July 12, 2023, North Korea has launched a ballistic missile toward the North’s eastern waters. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

South Korea says North Korea has launched a ballistic missile toward the North’s eastern waters. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff says the launch was made on Wednesday morning but gave no further details.

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Phoenix says it’s slowly clearing hundreds of people from a downtown camp of homeless people called “The Zone,” asking a judge to allow more time to clear the area and set up a safer, structured camp site for people living outside.

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Georgia health officials are laying out efforts to stem the tide of increasing deaths among new mothers in the state.

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On Jan. 26, 1971, Charles Manson and three members of his California cult were convicted for the murders of seven people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate.

The announcement comes less than a month after South Korea-based Samsung SDI chose New Carlisle in northern Indiana for a projected $3 billion electric vehicle battery cell plant that is forecast to create 1,700 manufacturing jobs in a joint venture with General Motors Corp.

Samsung SDI also has a joint venture with Stellantis that is building a $2.5 billion electric vehicle battery plant in Kokomo.

Thirteen other South Korea-based companies have operations in Indiana while six Indiana-based businesses operate in the Asian nation.

The Seoul office is the eighth overseas for the Indiana Economic Development Corporation.

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