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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's attempt to put its first spy satellite into space failed Wednesday in a setback to leader Kim Jong Un's push to boost his military capabilities as tensions with the United States and South Korea...
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LONDON (AP): Ameca can speak French, Chinese and dozens of other languages, instantly compose a poem, or sketch a cat on request. Ask for a smile, and you’ll get a clenched grin on her rubbery, blue face. Ameca is a humanoid robot powered by...
GEORGETOWN (AP): The death toll in a girls’ dormitory fire in Guyana rose to 20 on Tuesday when a 14-year-old girl died of her injuries at a hospital in Georgetown, the country’s health ministry said. Sherena Daniels had been in intensive care at...
LONDON (AP) — As Britain's prime minister, Boris Johnson established an independent public inquiry into his government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now the inquiry wants to see, in full, what Johnson wrote...
BERLIN (AP) — Three patients died in a fire that broke out overnight at a hospital in a town just outside Vienna, Austrian authorities said Tuesday. Police said they suspect a cigarette set off the blaze. The fire broke out in a fourth-floor...
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The United States Coast Guard said Tuesday that it's searching for a man who fell from a cruise ship off the coast of Florida. The 35-year-old passenger fell from the Carnival Magic ship about 185 miles east of...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has scrapped a decadeslong government-funded subsidy that has helped reduce the price of gas, leading to long lines at fuel stations Tuesday as drivers scrambled to stock up before costs...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — At least 153 people jailed since El Salvador instituted emergency powers in March 2022 to confront the country's powerful street gangs have died in state custody, according to a report released Monday by...
BRYAN, Texas (AP) — Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes entered Texas prison where she could spend the next 11 years for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley. Holmes, 39, on Tuesday...
ATLANTA (AP) — Former US first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia and remains at home, her family has announced. Carter, now 95, remains at home with former President Jimmy Carter, who has been at home receiving hospice care since early this...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Five people remain unaccounted for, including two people whose remains may be in a pile of rubble at the site of a partially collapsed apartment building, officials of the city of Davenport, Iowa, said Tuesday. Mayor...
BRASILIA (AP): South America’s leaders will gather in Brazil’s capital tomorrow as part of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s attempt to reinvigorate regional integration efforts that have previously floundered amid the continent’s political...
KAMPALA (AP): Uganda’s president has signed into law anti-gay legislation supported by many in this East African country, but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad. The version of the bill signed by President Yoweri Museveni doesn’...
(AP): In an edited video of his meeting on Friday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that was released by Zelenskyy’s office, Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, noted that “the Russians are dying” and described the US...
ROME (AP): Two UN agencies warned on Monday of rising food emergencies, including starvation in Sudan due to the outbreak of war, and in Haiti, Burkina Faso and Mali due to restricted movements of people and goods. The four countries join...
GEORGETOWN (AP): A teenage student who police in Guyana accuse of deliberately setting a fire in a girl’s dormitory that killed 18 schoolmates and a five-year-old boy was charged Monday as an adult with 19 counts of murder. The 15-year-old girl...
