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India launches spacecraft to explore water deposits on moon

NEW DELHI - India sent a spacecraft to explore water deposits on the far side of the moon in a successful launch Monday after a technical problem caused a week's delay. Scientists at the mission contr...

Jul 24, 2019

Yukiya Amano, head of UN agency overseeing Iran deal, dies

VIENNA - Yukiya Amano, the Japanese diplomat who led the International Atomic Energy Agency for a decade and was extensively involved in negotiations over Iran's nuclear program and the cleanup of the...

Jul 24, 2019

Syrian activists say airstrikes kill 27 in rebel-held town

BEIRUT - Multiple airstrikes hit a busy market in a rebel-controlled town in northwestern Syria on Monday, killing at least 27 people and turning several buildings into piles of rubble, according to o...

Jul 24, 2019

Did Facebook data help Trump? 'Great Hack' explores scandal

NEW YORK - The new documentary "The Great Hack" captures how Facebook's cavalier handling of user data in the Cambridge Analytica scandal posed a threat to democracy. But it doesn't prove the filmmake...

Jul 23, 2019

Israeli crews demolish Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem

JERUSALEM - Israeli work crews on Monday began demolishing dozens of Palestinian homes on the outskirts of an east Jerusalem neighbourhood, in one of the largest operations of its kind in years. The d...

Jul 23, 2019

Stevens and ex-colleagues took different paths in retirement

WASHINGTON - Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens never really put down his pen. Without opinions and dissents to write following his retirement from the Supreme Court in 2010, Stevens chos...

Jul 23, 2019

China says it won't rule out using force to reunify Taiwan

BEIJING - China said it will not renounce the use of force in efforts to reunify Taiwan with the mainland and vowed to take all necessary military measures to defeat "separatists." In a national defen...

Jul 23, 2019

Margaret Atwood on Booker Prize longlist for 'The Handmaid's Tale' sequel

LONDON - Canadian Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood is a contender again for the coveted fiction trophy. Atwood won in 2000 for "The Blind Assassin" and is nominated for "The Testaments," ...

Jul 23, 2019

Puerto Rico gov will not seek reelection, but won't resign

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossell said Sunday evening that he will not resign in the face of public furor over an obscenity-laced leaked online chat, but he will not seek reelec...

Jul 23, 2019

With a wide smile for his mom, Prince George turns 6

LONDON - Kensington Palace has released three new photographs before Prince George's birthday. The future king turns 6 on Monday. It's become a tradition for the palace to release snapshots taken by h...

Jul 23, 2019