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UN human rights office decries beheadings, other violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state 05/24/2024 11:17am • GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office warned Friday of “frightening and disturbing reports” about the impact of new violence in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine, pointing to new attacks on Rohingya civilians by the military and an ethnic armed group fighting it. Spokesperson Liz Throsse Opposing GMs in West final were junior teammates whose names are together on Stanley Cup 4 times 05/24/2024 10:58am • DALLAS (AP) — Jim Nill and Ken Holland were teammates in junior hockey nearly a half-century ago with big aspirations as players. Their names are together on the Stanley Cup four times, not as players but rather for their front-office roles with the Detroit Red Wings during that run of championshi Sydney judge says US ex-fighter pilot accused of training Chinese aviators can be extradited to US 05/24/2024 10:58am • SYDNEY (AP) — A Sydney judge on Friday ruled that former U.S. Marine Corps pilot Daniel Duggan can be extradited to the United States on allegations that he illegally trained Chinese aviators, leaving the attorney-general as Duggan’s last hope of remaining in Australia. Magistrate Daniel Reiss o UN countries adopt treaty to better trace origins of genetic resources under global patent system 05/24/2024 10:56am • GENEVA (AP) — U.N. member countries on Friday concluded a new treaty to ensure that genetic resources used in inventions, like new medicines derived from exotic plants in the Andes mountains, are properly traced. It marks the first time the 193 member states of the U.N.’s World Intellectual Prop Over 100 feared dead in landslide in remote part of Papua New Guinea, with rescue efforts underway 05/24/2024 10:52am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 people are believed to have been killed in a landslide Friday that buried a village in a remote, mountainous part of Papua New Guinea, and an emergency response is underway, officials in the South Pacific island nation said. The landslide struck Enga provi Italian teenage computer wizard set to become the first saint of the Millennial generation 05/24/2024 10:48am • ROME (AP) — Pope Francis paved the way for the canonization of the first saint of the millennial generation on Thursday, attributing a second miracle to a 15-year-old Italian computer whiz who died of leukemia in 2006. Carlo Acutis, born on May 3, 1991, in London and then moved with his Italian pa Eli Lilly beefs up plan to expand manufacturing for popular drugs Zepbound, Mounjaro 05/24/2024 10:28am • Eli Lilly will spend more than $5 billion to expand an Indiana manufacturing site and eventually make more doses of its popular weight-loss and diabetes treatments, Zepbound and Mounjaro. The drugmaker said Friday that it was more than doubling its investment in a site near its Indianapolis headquar China sends dozens of warplanes and ships near Taiwan to show its anger over island's new leaders 05/24/2024 10:15am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan tracked dozens of Chinese warplanes and navy vessels off its coast on Friday, the second day of a large military exercise launched by Beijing to show its anger over the self-governing island's inauguration of new leaders who refuse to accept its insistence that Taiwan Movie Review: This is her, now, in space: J.Lo heads to a new galaxy for AI love story in 'Atlas' 05/24/2024 10:05am • Let’s all be clear, if we weren’t already, that when it comes to Jennifer Lopez, it's about the love story. Always the love story. J.Lo the pop star, singing about rekindled love on her latest album, “This is Me … Now.” J.Lo the rom-com regular, making movies about seeking love (including NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 05/24/2024 09:29am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. ___ Judge in Trump’s hush money trial did not bar campaign finance expe Russia smashes train tracks in a battered Ukrainian border region where children are being evacuated 05/24/2024 09:27am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A nighttime Russian attack destroyed trains and tracks in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, officials said Friday, and authorities organized the evacuation of children from the area as it is being pummeled by the Kremlin’s forces in a powerful new offensive. The overn A dos años de la masacre en Uvalde: una comunidad detenida en el tiempo 05/24/2024 09:18am • UVALDE, Texas – La masacre en Uvalde dejó una herida que no sana y una ciudad que se detuvo en el tiempo. A dos años del tiroteo que cobró la vida de 19 niños y dos maestras, quedan más preguntas que respuestas y familias que siguen esperando el día que se haga justicia. La comunidad Top Russian military officials are being arrested. Why is it happening? 05/24/2024 09:11am • It began last month with the arrest of a Russian deputy defense minister. Then the head of the ministry’s personnel directorate was hauled into court. This week, two more senior military officials were detained. All face charges of corruption, which they have denied. The arrests started shortly be Last vigil at Key Bridge Victims' Memorial in Baltimore to be held this weekend 05/24/2024 08:50am • Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WBAL) -- The last vigil at the Key Bridge Victims' Memorial is set to be held this weekend. Bernardo Vargas, who is one of the creators of the Ft. Armistead memorial in South Baltimore, told 11 News it's hard to maintain the memorial si King Charles III won’t be out and about much over the next six weeks amid election campaign 05/24/2024 07:19am • LONDON (AP) — King Charles III won’t be out and about much over the next six weeks — and it’s not because of his ongoing cancer treatments. Shortly after U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called an early parliamentary election for July 4, Buckingham Palace said that all members of the royal fa