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NAIROBI, KENYA — Kenya’s President William Ruto has offered to mediate between Sudan’s warring parties, after multiple ceasefires failed to hold and fighting raged for a seventh day Friday in Khartoum and other Sudanese cities. Ruto made the offer as he conveyed a message of goodwill to the people of Sudan as the holy month of […]

Kevin Spacey will stand trial over 12 sex offence charges at the end of June. The American Beauty actor appeared in Southwark Crown Court in London via video-link on Friday for a hearing relating to his upcoming sex offence trial. From his undisclosed location, the 63-year-old, real name Kevin Spacey Fowler, spoke only to confirm […]

Iranian navy commander Shahram Irani told state television on Thursday that Iran’s navy forced a U.S. submarine to surface as it entered the Persian Gulf, but the United States Navy’s Fifth Fleet denied such an incident had taken place. “The U.S. submarine was approaching while submerged, but the Iranian submarine Fateh detected it and carried […]

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended the search for a missing boater off the coast of Cape Ann late Friday morning. On Thursday, the bodies of three people were recovered in the vicinity of an overturned vessel, but one person was still missing. The Coast Guard spent most of the day Thursday searching for a missing […]

Looking back at 2022’s weather with months of analysis, the World Meteorological Organization said last year really was as bad as it seemed when people were muddling through it. And about as bad as it gets — until more warming kicks in. Killer floods, droughts and heat waves hit around the world, costing many billions […]

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court temporarily extended women’s access to an abortion pill until Friday while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on mifepristone to take effect as a legal challenge to the medication’s FDA approval continues. In an order signed by Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday, the court indicated it will act by Friday […]

TAIPEI, TAIWAN — China revealed on Tuesday new details of sanctions it previously announced against two U.S. weapons manufacturers, including a ban on Chinese companies doing business with them. China imposed trade and investment sanctions in February on Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a division of Raytheon Technologies Corp., for supplying weapons to Taiwan, […]

Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday he will launch an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that he calls “TruthGPT” to challenge the offerings from Microsoft and Google. He criticized Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the firm behind chatbot sensation ChatGPT, of “training the AI to lie” and said OpenAI has now become a “closed source,” “for-profit” organization “closely allied […]

SAN PEDRO, CALIFORNIA — Floating in the port of Los Angeles, a strange-looking barge covered with pipes and tanks contains a concept that scientists hope to make waves: a new way to use the ocean as a vast carbon dioxide sponge to tackle global warming. Scientists from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have been working […]