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GENEVA (AP) — The bodies of two Belgian mountaineers who went missing in the Swiss Alps more than three decades ago have been found, officials said. Police in the southwestern Valais region, which has a database of people listed as missing over the last century, said the retreat of glaciers has led to the emergence of remains of people who went missing decades earlier. Late last month, a hiker discovered […]

BERLIN (AP) — A woman died and at least two other people were injured as severe storms caused extensive damage overnight across parts of Germany. Further southeast, in the Balkans, firefighters continued to battle wildfires that have been raging across Europe all summer. In Waldorf, in the southwestern state of Rhineland-Palatinate, a woman was struck by a falling tree and fatally injured, the German news agency dpa reported Thursday. Another […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea launched about 10 short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Thursday, South Korea’s military said, a day after North Korea shrugged off a U.S. decision to scale back military drills with South Korea in an apparent bid to resume diplomacy. The Joint Chiefs of Staff said the launches happened from North Korea’s capital region around 5 p.m. (0800 GMT) on Thursday. The military […]

By Leo Marchandon, Raphael Satter and Callaghan O’Hare AUSTIN, Texas, Aug 20 (Reuters) – Sinan Can Demir wanted to spend the last week of July burnishing his resume. Instead, he engaged in a battle of wits with an artificial-intelligence agent unleashed by a British government lab.  It started after Demir, a computer science student at the University of Texas at Dallas, stumbled across an attempt to sabotage a piece of […]

Aug 20 (Reuters) – Alibaba’s financial subsidiary Ant Group’s quarterly profits rose 1% year-on-year to around 4.7 billion yuan ($698 million) in the quarter ending June 30, Reuters calculations from Alibaba’s quarterly earnings report showed. The fintech giant has been attempting to pivot towards agentic commerce, digital health and embodied AI services in recent years, with its hugely popular AQ AI personal health app. It said in June that it […]

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Triple-murderer Erin Patterson should never be released from prison after she poisoned four of her estranged husband’s relatives with death cap mushrooms, a prosecutor told an Australian court on Thursday. Prosecutor Brendan Kissane told three judges of the Victoria state Court of Appeal that a judgment that Patterson must serve 33 years of a life sentence before she can apply for parole was “manifestly inadequate,” in […]

Brandon Lowe hit a game-ending home run two batters after Rafael Flores Jr. went deep to tie it as the Pittsburgh Pirates rallied for a 4-3 victory over the visiting Detroit Tigers on Wednesday. Both home runs came off Kenley Jansen (3-5). Flores homered in both of his at-bats after entering as a pinch hitter in the seventh inning. Paul Skenes gave up three runs on four hits over 4 […]

SEOUL, Aug 20 (Reuters) – North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile towards the sea on Thursday, Japan’s government and coastguard said. South Korean media also cited South Korea’s military as saying North Korea fired an unidentified projectile toward the sea on the east of the Korean Peninsula. Japan’s coast guard said the projectile, believed to be a ballistic missile, had already fallen. The missile appeared to have landed outside […]

By Michael Holden and Lisa Richwine LONDON/LOS ANGELES, Aug 20 (Reuters) – Prince Harry and his wife Meghan plan to move back to Britain this month, six years after they stepped down from their royal duties and relocated to the U.S., a source close to the couple said. The surprise move comes after the couple spent recent years repeatedly criticising the royal family and lambasting the British press, saying the […]