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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...
A robot designed by Engineers Arts and called Ameca  interacts with visitors during the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in London yesterday.

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...
The burned dormitory of a secondary school in Mahdia, Guyana on May 22.

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...

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...
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