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By JUWON PARK Associated Press SEOUL (AP) — South Korean young people are increasingly drawn to Buddhism due to social media-savvy influencers, including a monk who went viral on Instagram and a comedian who also DJs dressed like a Buddhist monk. Religious belief has been steadily declining in South Korea for years, especially among young
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Continue ReadingZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A fire at a marina in Croatia has destroyed 22 boats and caused huge damage but no injuries. An investigation is underway to determine what caused the fire early Wednesday at the marina in Medulin, a small town on the Istrian peninsula that’s popular with tourists in the northern Adriatic. Photos
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — World stocks were mostly higher on Wednesday after a rally on Wall Street that took the Nasdaq composite index to a record high. A report Tuesday showed that prices remain stubbornly high at the wholesale level in the United States, before many price changes are passed
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Rescuers in southern Poland have recovered the body of a third miner a day after a cave-in in which 12 other workers were hurt. A spokesperson for the Polish Mining Group says the miner was declared dead Wednesday and the rescue operation finished as investigators look into the cause of the
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA SURK and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron convened a meeting of top ministers to discuss spiraling violence in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia after at least two people were killed and four others were seriously injured, including a gendarme, according to officials there and French media
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH KRAUSS, ABBY SEWELL and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians across the Middle East on Wednesday are marking the anniversary of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel with protests and other events at a time of mounting concern over the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. The Nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe,”
Continue ReadingBy Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — Buckingham Palace revealed the first official portrait of King Charles III since his coronation on Tuesday, and it’s proving to be divisive with its lurid red brushstrokes. The 8.5 by 6.5-foot painting is by British artist Jonathan Yeo, who has painted high-profile subjects throughout his career including former British
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders is on the verge of brokering a four-party coalition in the Netherlands six months after coming in first in national elections, opening the prospect that yet another European Union nation will veer toward the hard right weeks ahead of EU-wide elections. Wilders has
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses shot down 10 U.S.-supplied Ukrainian missiles targeting Crimea early Wednesday just as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was visiting Kyiv. The ministry said 10 U.S.-supplied Ukrainian ATACMS missiles were destroyed over the Black Sea over Crimea. Sevastopol Gov. Mikhail Razvozhayev said air defenses shot
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Chatterton, CNN (CNN) — Sydney, 1994. A dimly-lit bar, wrapped in tinsel curtains and the fragmented, twirling light from a disco ball. Tick Belrose (played by Hugo Weaving) is on stage lip syncing as his drag persona Mitzi Del Bra; clad in a silver sequin dress with matching gloves and a bouffant blonde
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By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn, CNN (CNN) — A young activist jailed for insulting Thailand’s monarchy died on Tuesday following a prolonged hunger strike, officials said, prompting an outpouring of grief and renewed calls for justice reform in the Southeast Asian kingdom Netiporn “Bung” Sanesangkhom, 28, died after suffering a “sudden cardiac arrest,” Thailand’s Corrections Department
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Special Enforcement Bureau personnel are searching tonight for an armed suspect who fired shots at a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department deputy in Jurupa Valley. The shooting was reported around 7 p.m. when the suspect shot at a deputy near Pats Ranch Road and 68th Street, CBS Los Angeles reported. The suspect is wanted for
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, Christina Maxouris, Sara Smart and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — The driver of a pickup truck involved in a Tuesday morning crash that killed eight farm workers and left at least 40 people injured in north-central Florida has been charged with eight counts of “Driving Under the Influence – manslaughter,” according to
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks were mostly higher on Wednesday after a rally on Wall Street that took the Nasdaq composite index to a record high. A report Tuesday showed that prices remain stubbornly high at the wholesale level in the United States, before many price changes are passed
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ACTUALIZACIACIÓN: Identifican a las tres personas que murieron accidente automovilístico en La Quinta. Autoridades reportaron que quienes murieron, incluye a una buen samaritana. Bajo el nombre de Katherine Vogts, quien salió de su propio coche para ayudar al motorista, Brandt Celli. Según la policía, Celli había salido expulsado de su moto tras atropellar a la peatona,
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American Idol finalist Abi Carter paid a visit to Washington Charter Elementary School Tuesday morning, a school she attended as a young student in the valley, and even listened to a performance from the choir. “Tell me about the 1st time you heard her sing?,” News Channel 3 asked Christina Osborn, a math teacher at
Continue ReadingBy KASPARMAN PILIANG and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press TANAH DATAR, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities have seeded clouds in a bid to prevent further rainfall after flash floods that hit the country’s Sumatra Island over the weekend left at least 58 people dead. Another 35 are missing. A landslide of mud and cold lava from
Continue ReadingCNN, NASA, CBC, WCCO, ALBERTA GOV, MANITOBA HYDRO By Elizabeth Wolfe, Joe Sutton, Sharif Paget, Mary Gilbert and Eric Zerkel, CNN (CNN) — Improving winds and a storm moving into western Canada are providing a temporary boost to firefighters battling massive wildfires, but the danger remains heightened as they burn close to three communities. Drought-starved
Continue Reading By Caitlin Stephen Hu, David Culver and Evelio Contreras, CNN Port-au-Prince (CNN) — On the rare days that the hills surrounding Port-au-Prince fall silent, people notice. “If you can’t hear shooting somewhere, the gangs are probably running low on ammunition,” a police source in the Haitian capital told CNN. “But when there’s a lot of shooting,
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