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Myanmar's ousted leader Suu Kyi moved from prison to house arrest due to heat, military says 04/17/2024 09:42am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Myanmar���s jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest as a health measure due to a heat wave, the military government said as it freed more than 3,000 prisoners under an amnesty to mark this week's traditional New Year holiday. Those released Hungary's leader calls for change at the top in June European elections at a far right gathering 04/17/2024 09:38am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb��n on Wednesday urged voters to reject mainstream political parties in upcoming European Union elections for their failure of leadership and said Ukraine must never be allowed to join the bloc or NATO. Orb��n, the keynote speaker at a gathering i Earth Day: How a senator's idea more than 50 years ago got people fighting for their planet 04/17/2024 09:30am • Millions of people around the world will pause on Monday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It's an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and preserve a planet that is now home to some 8 billion humans and assorted trillions of other organisms. Here are answer Man up for parole more than 2 decades after Dartmouth professor stabbing deaths 04/17/2024 09:03am • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� A man who has served more than half of his life in prison for his role in the 2001 stabbing deaths of two married Dartmouth College professors as part of a plan to rob and kill people before fleeing overseas is getting his first chance at parole. James Parker was 16 when he wa Kate Hudson had a lifetime to make a record. The result is 'Glorious,' out in May 04/17/2024 08:00am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� More than two decades ago, Kate Hudson took on the role of one of the most celebrated music fans to ever hit the silver screen: Penny Lane in ���Almost Famous.��� It is required viewing for record obsessives ��� and for Hudson, an extension of a lifelong adoration of music. ���I w UK lawmakers back landmark bill to gradually phase out smoking for good 04/17/2024 07:24am • LONDON (AP) ��� The British government's plan for a landmark smoking ban that aims to stop young people from ever smoking cleared its first hurdle in Parliament on Tuesday despite vocal opposition from within Prime Minister Rishi Sunak���s Conservative Party. The bill, a key policy announced by Sun Solomon Islanders cast votes in an election that will shape relations with China 04/17/2024 07:09am • HONIARA, Solomon Islands (AP) ��� Voting has closed across Solomon Islands on Wednesday in the South Pacific nation's first general election since the government switched diplomatic allegiances from Taiwan to Beijing and struck a secret security pact that has raised fears of the Chinese navy gaining Death toll from 4 days of rains rises to 63 in Pakistan with more rain on the forecast 04/17/2024 06:48am • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ��� Lightning and heavy rains led to 14 deaths in Pakistan, officials said Wednesday, bringing the death toll from four days of extreme weather to at least 63, as the heaviest downpour in decades flooded villages on the country's southwestern coast. Flash floods have also kil MotoGP racing for new momentum in America, with hopes of riding an F1-like surge into the future 04/17/2024 06:10am • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� A new American team with ties to the NASCAR stock car series, a new television deal in the United States and upcoming American ownership. MotoGP, global motorcycle racing���s version of Formula 1, looks primed for a bid to copy F1���s explosive growth in recent years and brin This year's NFL draft has lowest number of early entrants since 2011. That trend figures to continue 04/17/2024 06:00am • The lure of starting a pro career early apparently isn���t quite as tempting for underclassmen now as it was in the days before college stars could profit off their name, image and likeness. This month���s draft features 58 early entrants, the lowest number of players to enter the draft with college Former world champion runner Jeruto faces doping case hearing in June ahead of Paris Olympics 04/17/2024 05:32am • LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) ��� Former steeplechase world champion Norah Jeruto faces a doping case hearing in June, five weeks before the Paris Olympics open. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Wednesday it will hear an appeal by World Athletics on June 17 against a ruling last year that cleare Paris prepares for 100-day countdown to the Olympics. It wants to rekindle love for the Games 04/17/2024 04:43am • PARIS (AP) ��� In Paris' outskirts, a bright-eyed young girl is eager for the Olympic and Paralympic Games to end. That's because the swimming club where 10-year-old Lyla Kebbi trains will inherit an Olympic pool. It will be dismantled after the Games and trucked from the Olympic race venue in Paris Guerrero has 2 RBIs as Blue Jays win 5-4 and deal Yankees first series loss this season 04/16/2024 11:22pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� Vladimir Guerrero Jr. reached base four times and had two RBIs, Yusei Kikuchi won for the first time this season and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Yankees 5-4 on Tuesday night, handing New York its third consecutive loss. Bo Bichette hit an RBI single and Justin Turner added a sacr The Latest | UN chief calls for `urgent de-escalation' in the Middle East 04/16/2024 10:34pm • U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is calling for ���urgent de-escalation��� of hostilities in the Middle East. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Tuesday that Guterres made the comments during a phone conversation with Iran���s foreign minister following Tehran���s weekend attack on Israel. Arkansas lawmakers question governor's staff about purchase of $19,000 lectern cited by audit 04/16/2024 09:10pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) ��� Arkansas lawmakers on Tuesday pointedly questioned Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' staff about the $19,000 purchase of a lectern that an audit says potentially violated laws on purchasing, property and government records. During a nearly three-hour hearing before the committe