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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Three Christian extremists would probably not have fatally shot two police officers and a bystander in an ambush on a rural Australian property and wounded a third officer two years ago if they had not shared the same psychiatric disorder, a coroner was told on Thursday. Brothers Gareth and Nathaniel Train
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A gas leak caused the death of one person and injured 10 others at an Iranian Revolutionary Guard center, Iranian state television reported. The leak occurred at a workshop belonging to the Guard in Isfahan province and the injured people were transferred to a hospital for medical treatment, the
The Israeli military says it has killed five more militants in a large-scale operation in the occupied West Bank, including a well-known local commander. There was no immediate Palestinian confirmation on Thursday of the death of Mohammed Jaber, known as Abu Shujaa , a commander in the Islamic Jihad militant group in the Nur Shams
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top diplomat on Thursday ramped up pressure on Ukraine’s international backers to lift restrictions on the use of weapons they provide the conflict-ravaged country to allow its armed forces to strike targets inside Russia. The U.S. restricts the use of long-range ballistic missiles it provides to Ukraine and some
LONDON (AP) — If you want to use your shiny new iPhone for as long as possible, you better take good care of it. Most people are now holding on to smartphones longer instead of regularly upgrading them, and there are many reasons why. At the dawn of the smartphone age, you might have upgraded
In the capital Caracas, supporters of both opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and President Nicolás Maduro took to the streets. It comes exactly a month after the fraught July 28 vote in which Maduro was declared the winner despite strong evidence that opposition candidate Edmundo González won by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. In the capital
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Efforts in California to establish first-in-the-nation safety measures for the largest artificial intelligence systems cleared an important vote Wednesday that could pave the way for U.S. regulations on the technology evolving at warp speed. The proposal, aiming to reduce potential risks created by AI, would require companies to test their models
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Thursday ordered the government to back its climate goals with more concrete plans for action through 2049, handing a partial victory to climate campaigners who say the country’s failure to cut emissions faster amounts to a violation of their rights. The court, which weighs the
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected militants kidnapped four people, including an army officer who was sitting in a mosque in a former stronghold of Pakistani Taliban to receive mourners after attending his father’s funeral, officials said Thursday. No one claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s kidnapping of Lt. Col. Khalid Khan and three others in
