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Listen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.The Vancouver Goldeneyes may have lost out on making the playoffs, but by every non-hockey metric, the team’s debut…

Britain’s King Charles III hailed his country’s longstanding relationship with the United States as he attended a lavish state dinner at the White House on Tuesday during a four-day visit to mark the 250th anniversary of US independence. Echoing the tone of an earlier speech to Congress, King Charles III…

Listen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.An Ontario Provincial Police officer was killed in a motorcycle crash on Highway 401 in Cobourg, Ont., on Monday,…

The European Parliament on Tuesday approved a resolution calling for an EU-wide definition of rape based on the absence of freely given and informed consent. It is now up to the European Commission to propose legislation, which would then need to be approved by EU member states, usually a political…

A series of coordinated attacks carried out by ⁠⁠armed groups across Mali has exposed security vulnerabilities in the military-ruled country, analysts say.Since gaining independence from French rule in 1960, the West African nation has navigated cycles of political instability, punctuated by persistent attacks from armed groups, military coups and financial…

The European Parliament on Tuesday approved a resolution calling for an EU-wide definition of rape based on the absence of freely given and informed consent. It is now up to the European Commission to propose legislation, which would then need to be approved by EU member states, usually a political…

Quick-thinking middle school students in Mississippi kept their school bus from crashing after their driver passed out while on a four-lane highway. The bus had just left Hancock Middle School in Hancock County on Wednesday with about 40 children on board when Leah Taylor, 46, had an asthma attack. She…

Prominent journalist Andrzej Poczobut has been released from jail in Belarus in a swap with Poland that also saw a total of 10 prisoners released as the leader of Belarus seeks improved relations with the West, officials in both countries said on Tuesday. Poczobut, a correspondent for the influential Polish…

The European Parliament on Tuesday approved a resolution calling for an EU-wide definition of rape based on the absence of freely given and informed consent. It is now up to the European Commission to propose legislation, which would then need to be approved by EU member states, usually a political…

Preliminary reports indicate Cessna aircraft may have crashed due to bad weather conditions that caused low visibility.Published On 27 Apr 202627 Apr 2026A plane has crashed on the outskirts of South Sudan’s capital, Juba, killing all 13 passengers and the pilot.The country’s civil aviation authority said on Monday that initial…

Former Associated Press photographer Jack Thornell ‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of a shotgun-felled James Meredith looking back toward his would-be assassin on a Mississippi highway in 1966 became an enduring image of the Civil Rights Movement.Thornell died Thursday at a hospital in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie from complications…

The European Parliament on Tuesday approved a resolution calling for an EU-wide definition of rape based on the absence of freely given and informed consent. It is now up to the European Commission to propose legislation, which would then need to be approved by EU member states, usually a political…

South Africa has appointed Roelf Meyer, a former minister and negotiator in the apartheid government, as the new ambassador to the United States in a move by President Cyril Ramaphosa to mend its strained ties with Washington.Meyer, 78, replaces Ebrahim Rasool, who was expelled as South Africa’s ambassador to the…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Terence Crawford was found guilty of careless driving Monday and ordered to pay a $75 fine stemming from a traffic stop last year during which police ordered the world champion boxer and passengers out of his vehicle at gunpoint.Crawford was stopped Sept. 28, hours after his…