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Sat, 13 Aug 2022 04:00:00 EDT
As U.K. hit with more extreme heat, demand grows for air conditioning where none existed
As the U.K. swelters through another extreme heat wave, air conditioning installers say they are working overtime to meet the growing demand for AC units. Most estimates pin the number of homes with a...

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 15:54:21 EDT
U.S. federal judge unseals search warrant used on Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate
A U.S. federal judge granted the U.S. Department of Justice's request to unseal the warrant that authorized the FBI to search former president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. ...

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 18:07:44 EDT
Police probe deadly shooting rampage in western Montenegro
A man went on a shooting rampage in the streets of Cetinje in western Montenegro on Friday, killing 10 people, including two children, before being shot dead by a passerby, officials said. ...

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 11:24:53 EDT
Author Salman Rushdie on ventilator after stabbing attack on lecture stage
Salman Rushdie, whose novel The Satanic Verses drew death threats from Iran's leader, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lectur...

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 12:54:42 EDT
Polio virus found in New York City wastewater, suggesting local transmission
Health officials identified the virus that causes polio in New York City's wastewater, suggesting local transmission of the virus, state authorities said on Friday. They urged unvaccinated New York...

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 15:09:34 EDT
Global experts give monkeypox variants new names
Health experts through the World Health Organization (WHO) have come up with new names for the monkeypox disease, virus and variants using Roman numerals, according to a release sent Friday. ...

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 04:13:25 EDT
Actor Anne Heche remains on life support for organ donation evaluation
Anne Heche remains on life support and under evaluation for organ donation after a car crash that led to her brain death, a representative for the actor said Friday. Under current California law, deat...

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 13:49:55 EDT
More Black NFL retirees win dementia cases in rescored tests following $1B settlement
Two years after a pair of former players sued the NFL over the treatment of Black retirees in the league's $1 billion US concussion settlement, hundreds of men whose medical tests were rescored to eli...

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 13:21:11 EDT
Trump may be a special case, but others have paid for mishandling classified material
As the fallout from the removal of potentially classified documents from Donald Trump's Florida home plays out, here's a look at some recent cases where individuals in and connected to the U.S. govern...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 04:00:00 EDT
U.S. politics engulfed in threats following police search at Trump's home
A Republican former U.S. attorney general is pleading with his fellow Americans: cool down the ill-informed speculation threatening to engulf the country’s politics. The police search at Donald Trum...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 21:00:11 EDT
UN demands end to military activity at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
The UN nuclear chief warned Thursday that "very alarming" military activity at Europe's largest nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine could lead to dangerous consequences for the region and called for...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 07:19:24 EDT
Land temperatures on the rise, weather fluctuations more severe, Europe space chief says
As the latest wave of wildfires and heat warnings challenges the continent, the head of the European Space Agency (ESA) is warning economic damage from heat waves and drought could dwarf Europe's ener...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:01:56 EDT
NHL-bound Russian hockey player wants court to reverse his conscription
Russian hockey player Ivan Fedotov has been accused of trying to evade military service by signing an NHL contract.

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 11:54:30 EDT
Suspect in Beirut bank hostage standoff demanded to withdraw his own money, police say
A hostage standoff where an armed man demanded a Beirut bank let him withdraw his trapped savings has ended with the man's surrender and no injuries. It was the latest painful episode in Lebanon's eco...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:27:53 EDT
U.S. CDC drops quarantine, screening recommendations for COVID-19
The top U.S. public health agency on Thursday relaxed its COVID-19 guidelines, dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected person....

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 08:06:24 EDT
North Korea dictator was 'seriously ill,' his sister says, blaming South Korea for COVID-19
In a striking speech before thousands of North Koreans, leader Kim Jong-un's sister said he suffered a fever while guiding the country to victory over the coronavirus. She blamed rival South Korea for...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 09:37:33 EDT
McDonald's will soon reopen its locations in Ukraine
McDonald's will start reopening some of its restaurants in Ukraine in the coming months, a symbol of the war-torn country's return to some sense of normalcy and a show of support after the American fa...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Polio largely vanished thanks to vaccines. So why is it now back in more countries?
Polio, a potentially disabling virus that’s long been forgotten in many parts of the world, is now circulating in parts of the U.S. and U.K., on the heels of an outbreak in Israel. Medical experts s...

Wed, 10 Aug 2022 13:56:22 EDT
France's Gironde region sees further evacuations in latest forest-fire battle
Firefighters were battling a wildfire in southwestern France on Wednesday in a region known for its pine forests that was ravaged by flames last month.

Wed, 10 Aug 2022 17:02:15 EDT
Hundreds take part in anti-Gazprom protest in Bulgarian capital
Hundreds of Bulgarians took to the streets of Sofia on Wednesday to voice fears that the country's caretaker government could break with the policies of its pro-Western predecessor and revert to close...



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