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New Glenn blast deals setback to Blue Origin ambitions
New Glenn blast deals setback to Blue Origin ambitions

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Blue Origin suffered a major setback in its effort to challenge SpaceX after an uncrewed New Glenn rocket...

Ex-head of Shaolin Temple gets 24 years jail for embezzlement, bribery
Ex-head of Shaolin Temple gets 24 years jail for embezzlement, bribery

BEIJING, China: Shi Yongxin, the former abbot of China's Shaolin Temple, was sentenced to 24 years in prison for crimes such as embezzlement...

Trump’s plan for $1.8 billion 'weaponization' fund blocked by judge
Trump’s plan for $1.8 billion 'weaponization' fund blocked by judge

WASHINGTON, D.C.: A U.S. judge on May 29 temporarily stopped President Donald Trump's administration from creating a nearly US$1.8...

Slavery-era laws repealed by French parliament
Slavery-era laws repealed by French parliament

PARIS, France: French lawmakers voted on May 28 to officially cancel old slavery-era laws that treated enslaved people as property...

US accuses Iran of attacking Kuwait, violating ceasefire
US accuses Iran of attacking Kuwait, violating ceasefire

DUBAI, U.A.E.: The U.S. military said on May 28 that Iran broke a fragile ceasefire after Kuwait reported being attacked following...

Rescuers find five people trapped in Laos cave, two still missing
Rescuers find five people trapped in Laos cave, two still missing

VIENTIANE, Laos: Five people who were trapped inside a cave in Laos for about a week were found alive on May 27. Rescue teams from...

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France becomes first EU nation to fund weight-loss drugs
France becomes first EU nation to fund weight-loss drugs

PARIS, France: France will begin reimbursing weight-loss medications for severely obese patients from mid-June, becoming the first...

Temu hit with massive EU fine over hazardous goods
Temu hit with massive EU fine over hazardous goods

LONDON, UK: Chinese online retailer Temu has been fined 200 million euros (US$232 million) by the European Union after regulators found...

Four patients judged insane, freed from Dublin’s mental hospital
Four patients judged insane, freed from Dublin’s mental hospital

DUBLIN, Ireland: A new report says that four people were released last year from the Central Mental Hospital after being judged unfit...

Slavery-era laws repealed by French parliament
Slavery-era laws repealed by French parliament

PARIS, France: French lawmakers voted on May 28 to officially cancel old slavery-era laws that treated enslaved people as property...

Email threatening mass shooting forces closure of schools in Ireland
Email threatening mass shooting forces closure of schools in Ireland

DUBLIN, Ireland: Several schools in Carlow town and across the county received a threatening email saying there would be a mass shooting...

Sweden to sell Ukraine 20 new Gripen jets, donate older ones
Sweden to sell Ukraine 20 new Gripen jets, donate older ones

UPPSALA, Sweden: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said that Ukraine will buy 20...

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