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Internet access via mobile phones starts for all Cubans

HAVANA (AP) — For the first time, average Cubans became eligible to sign up for internet service for their mobile phones Thursday, a development long awaited on the communist-ruled island. Users beg...

Dec 7, 2018
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Dec. 8 designated Koreatown Day in LA

The Los Angeles City Council passed a resolution to designate Dec. 8 as Koreatown Day on Wednesday, making it the first ethnic town to be given a celebratory date. The Korean American History Museum...

Dec 6, 2018
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French government yields on fuel price hikes after weeks of protest

The French government, under pressure from weeks of "yellow vest" protests over rising living costs, on Wednesday scrapped all planned fuel tax hikes for 2019 and appealed for calm. An increase sche...

Dec 6, 2018
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Nation bids goodbye to Bush with high praise, cannons, humor

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation bid goodbye to George H.W. Bush with high praise, cannon salutes and gentle humor Wednesday, celebrating the life of the Texan who embraced a lifetime of service in Washi...

Dec 6, 2018
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Putin threatens to develop nuclear missiles banned by US-Russia treaty

A defiant Vladimir Putin on Wednesday threatened to develop nuclear missiles banned under a treaty with the United States after Washington gave Moscow a deadline to comply with the key arms control a...

Dec 6, 2018
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1st baby born using uterus transplanted from deceased donor

LONDON (AP) — Brazilian doctors are reporting the world’s first baby born to a woman with a uterus transplanted from a deceased donor. Eleven previous births have used a transplanted womb but from a...

Dec 5, 2018
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US senators blast Saudi prince over Khashoggi, after CIA chief briefing

Two key US Republican senators said a Tuesday briefing by the CIA's director only strengthened their conviction that Saudi Arabia's crown prince directed the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Th...

Dec 5, 2018
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Trump praises witness who refuses to testify against him

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump praised a key witness in the Russia investigation Monday for having the “guts” not to testify against him, and said his former lawyer — who cut a deal with pr...

Dec 4, 2018
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World 'way off course', UN warns at crunch climate summit

KATOWICE, Poland -- The world is "way off course" in its plan to prevent catastrophic climate change, the United Nations warned Monday as nations gathered in Poland to chart a way for mankind to aver...

Dec 3, 2018
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Soyuz 'successfully' launched into orbit: Roscosmos

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan -- Russia's space agency Roscosmos said Monday that the first manned Soyuz flight to the International Space Station since a failed launch in October was proceeding according to ...

Dec 3, 2018
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Ban Ki-moon urges N. Korea to take denuclearization steps

TOKYO -- Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Monday to take concrete steps toward complete denuclearization and gain the trust of the international comm...

Dec 3, 2018
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First manned space mission launches since Soyuz failure

The first manned space mission to the International Space Station since an unprecedented accident in October, which raised concerns about Moscow's Soviet-designed spacecraft, will launch on Monday. ...

Dec 3, 2018
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Paris assesses injuries, damage after worst riot in decade

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron asked for an evaluation of possible protest security measures Sunday, a day after a Paris demonstration against increased taxes and living costs devolved...

Dec 3, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Violent clashes engulf Paris in new anti-Macron protests

Anti-government protesters torched dozens of cars and set fire to storefronts during daylong clashes with riot police across central Paris on Saturday, as thousands took part in fresh "yellow vest" p...

Dec 2, 2018
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Trump sets aside political differences in honoring Bush

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Donald Trump, the disruptive, anti-establishment president who spent years deriding much of what George H.W. Bush stood for, set aside differences in politics and tempe...

Dec 2, 2018
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