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Until three years ago, Sara Cabral’s faith experience was on trend with other Southern European youth — a “Catholic but never practicing” upbringing with little relevance to her life on Spain’s Canary Islands. Then she listened to a song from a faith youth group that felt as if God were speaking to her. She joined the group, and now in addition to its weekly adoration with music sessions, Cabral is […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Soccer fans in Haiti have for decades gathered in front of televisions and radios to support Brazil in every World Cup. But not this year. Haiti has qualified for the global tournament for the first time since 1974, and the excitement is brimming. Spontaneous soccer games are erupting on dusty lots while shirts emblazoned with the country’s team players are sold at a growing number of […]

BANGKOK (AP) — Rescue workers in Laos searched Monday for an alternative passage into a flooded cave where two people are believed to have been trapped for nearly two weeks after heavy rainfall flooded the main entrance, making it impassable. The two people remain unaccounted for since a search and rescue operation began last month in a rugged area of Xaisomboun province, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of the […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An explosion and fire occurred at a defense company in South Korea on Monday, killing five people and injuring two others, officials said. The deadly incident happened at a worksite run by Hanwha Aerospace in the South Korean city of Daejeon. Other details, including the cause of the explosion, were not immediately available. Emergency official Yoon Seong-su said that the area is a government-designated security […]

BEIJING, June 1 (Reuters) – China will send a team of medical specialists to the Democratic Republic of Congo to assist with the region’s Ebola outbreak, foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said on Monday. The Chinese government has decided to provide humanitarian assistance to Congo and will continue to do so “to the best of its ability”, Lin added. (Reporting by Ethan Wang and Joe Cash; Editing by Clarence Fernandez) […]

By Che Pan and Casey Hall BEIJING, June 1 (Reuters) – The global smartphone market is heading for its steepest annual contraction on record, with shipments projected to slump by 13.9% this year to 1.08 billion units, Counterpoint Research said on Monday, citing a worsening shortage of memory chips. The forecast is a downgrade from the 12.4% decline projected in February, with the squeeze in global chip supply exacerbated by […]

BERLIN, June 1 (Reuters) – Uber and Israel-based Autobrains said on Monday they plan to launch a robotaxi programme in Munich in collaboration with U.S. chipmaker Nvidia, marking a push to scale autonomous ride-hailing in Europe. The companies said they aim to combine Uber’s mobility network with Autobrains’ “agentic AI” driving system, running on Nvidia’s Drive Hyperion platform, with Munich set to serve as the first deployment city, pending regulatory […]

BRUSSELS, June 1 (Reuters) – Thirteen European cloud providers joined forces with a group of EU lawmakers and NGOs on Monday to back the European Commission’s drive to cut the region’s dependence on U.S. technologies and support local businesses. • The Commission is set to announce measures on Wednesday aimed at ensuring European companies, rather than U.S. rivals, provide cloud streaming services for sensitive public tenders, while also boosting the […]

TOKYO (AP) — Eight crested ibises were released into the wild in a north-central Japanese town, decades after the birds went extinct in the country. Eight of the endangered birds took off from each of their wooden cages at a ceremony Sunday in Hakui city in the Noto region, where they were last seen in the wild. The white birds, called Toki in Japan, are native to East Asia and […]