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BOSTON (AP) — In a race that has centered on whether Ed Markey, 80, is too old for another U.S. Senate term, the Massachusetts Democrat’s answer to a recent debate question was especially striking. When asked whether he uses AI platforms like Claude or ChatGPT in his work, Markey seemed unclear on the topic. He responded that he uses “whatever is inside of my iPhone or my iPad — whatever […]

By Sahana Bajracharya CHITWAN, Nepal Aug 30 (Reuters) – Nepal’s scenic Chitwan district, known for its forests and rivers, has become the site of mass burials for hundreds of unidentified victims whose bodies were swept away by the torrent that devastated the Himalayan region days ago. In the plains, nearly 200 kilometers from the flood-ravaged valleys of Rasuwa where the disaster struck on Wednesday, authorities have dug hundreds of graves […]

By Joey Roulette and Will Dunham CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Aug 30 (Reuters) – NASA’s new flagship astronomical observatory was launched into space from Florida on Sunday on a mission to probe some of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics and cosmology. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a roughly $4 billion project, was carried aloft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The telescope is designed to […]

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Norwegians across the country lined up early Sunday in front of cathedrals and churches for memorial services held for the late King Harald V, who died at 89. “This Sunday is different. His Majesty King Harald is dead. A family has lost their spouse, father, grandfather, father-in-law,” said Dean Pål Kristian Balstad as he opened the funeral service in Oslo Cathedral, Norway’s public broadcaster NRK reported. […]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani nurse who rescued the sole surviving newborn from a hospital nursery fire that killed 14 other infants will receive one of the country’s most prestigious civil awards. Fire engulfed Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, a major government hospital in Islamabad, on Wednesday. A 51-second segment of CCTV footage, widely circulated online, captured Razia Noreen running into the burning nursery and emerging seconds later with the […]

NICOSIA, Aug 30 (Reuters) – A passenger boat with around 270 people on board capsized off North Cyprus on Sunday, with a search and rescue underway, Turkish Cypriot media reported. Murat Senkul, the mayor of the town of Kyrenia, told broadcaster CNN Turk that 159 of the 258 passengers on board the vessel had been reached. The Kibris newspaper reported that the vessel, which some reports said was a catamaran, began […]

CAIRO, Aug 30 (Reuters) – An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinians, including a three-year-old child, in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday, health officials said. Gaza medics said the Israeli airstrike near a bakery in Deir Al-Balah killed one man, Hussam Nusair, a three-year-old boy, Tayyem Hamdan, and wounded several others.  The Israeli military said it attacked a Hamas militant, without giving further details. An October 2025 U.S.-backed ceasefire halted […]

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Iceland is headed toward rejecting a referendum that would have restarted negotiations to join the European Union more than a decade after previous talks died, the national broadcaster reported Sunday. The vote will put the long-debated issue to rest for the second time. A euroskeptic government ended EU talks in 2015. With all but one constituency fully reporting results, the vote against the EU led 52.5% […]

By David Lawder ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, Aug 30 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent faces a major test of his economic diplomacy skills this week as he presses finance leaders from the G20 major economies to shrink global trade imbalances, boost growth and sever business ties to Iran, while trying to calm worries about rising U.S. debt and bond yields. After shunning the Group of 20 process last year […]