Nagasaki urges nuke ban on 75th anniversary of US A-bombing

Associated Press 08/09/2020

TOKYO — The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday marked its 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, with the mayor and dwindling survivors urging world leaders including their own to do more for a nuclear weapons…

Huawei overtakes Samsung as top smartphone seller–report

Associated Press 07/31/2020

LONDON — A technology research firm says Huawei has overtaken Samsung to become the world’s biggest smartphone seller, as its home market in China emerged from the coronavirus pandemic better off than other economies. Analysts at Canalys…

NASA launches Mars rover to look for signs of ancient life

Associated Press 07/30/2020

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built — a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills, and lasers — blasted off Thursday as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the…

Governments around world eye tougher steps to fight virus

Associated Press 07/20/2020

Signs of governments reassessing their coronavirus response were scattered around the world Sunday, with the mayor of Los Angeles saying the city was reopened too quickly, Ohio’s governor warning his state is “going the wrong way,” Hong…

UN chief: World ‘at the breaking point’ due to inequalities

Associated Press 07/19/2020

JOHANNESBURG  — Saying “we are at the breaking point,” the U.N. secretary-general made a sweeping call Saturday to end the global inequalities that sparked this year’s massive anti-racism protests and have been further exposed by the coronavirus…

Breathtaking virus numbers show normal life still far away

Associated Press 07/19/2020

JOHANNESBURG  — South Africa on Saturday became one of the top five worst-hit countries in the coronavirus pandemic, as breathtaking new infection numbers around the world were a reminder that a return to normal life is still…

Spacecraft snaps closest pictures of sun, ‘campfires’ abound

Associated Press 07/17/2020

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — A European and NASA spacecraft has snapped the closest pictures ever taken of the sun, revealing countless little “campfires” flaring everywhere. Scientists on Thursday released the first images taken by Solar Orbiter, launched…

Look out, Mars: Here we come with a fleet of spacecraft

Associated Press 07/13/2020

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  — Mars is about to be invaded by planet Earth — big time. Three countries — the United States, China and the United Arab Emirates — are sending unmanned spacecraft to the red planet…

‘A slap in the face:’ Goya faces boycott over Trump praise

Associated Press 07/11/2020

NEW YORK — The CEO of food company Goya is facing an uproar over his praise for President Donald Trump, with some Latino families purging their pantries of the products and scrambling to find alternatives to the…

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