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Gas prices climb across WA through April
MOSES LAKE — Gas prices across Washington continued their upward trajectory throughout April, mirroring national v…
Hurricane Delta has made landfall near Puerto Morelos along the northeastern coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Delta has made landfall near Puerto Morelos along the northeastern coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
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Hurricane Delta makes landfall in Mexico as a Category 2
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Pakistan to keep top suspect in Daniel Pearl murder in jail
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A British-born Pakistani man who has been on death row over the 2002 killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl will remain in jail for another three months despite his acquittal by a lower court …
Egypt frees journalist detained while covering Luxor unrest
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities have released a local journalist detained over the weekend in the southern city of Luxor where she was covering the alleged killing of a man during a police raid, her lawyer said W…
2 scientists win Nobel chemistry prize for gene-editing tool
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize in chemistry went to two researchers Wednesday for a gene-editing tool that has revolutionized science by providing a way to alter DNA, the code of life — technology already being u…
UN 'outraged' by attack on food aid convoy in South Sudan
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The U.N. World Food Program says it is “outraged” by an attack on a convoy carrying food aid in South Sudan that left one crew member missing and three with gunshot wounds.
Armenia, Azerbaijan continue fighting as EU calls for calm
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — The fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh continued Wednesday morning, with Armenian officials saying the territory's capital came u…
Nobel Prize for chemistry awarded for 'genome scissors'
STOCKHOLM (AP) — French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer A. Doudna have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a method of genome editing likened to “molecular scissors” that offer th…
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Nobel Prize for chemistry awarded to Charpentier and Doudna
STOCKHOLM (AP) — French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer A. Doudna have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a method of genome editing known as CRISPR.
Iran's Rouhani slams sending fighters to Nagorno-Karabakh
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday warned that his country will not tolerate the presence of foreign fighters — “terrorists that Iran has fought for years" — near its northern border, …
Lawmakers: North Korean ex-envoy to Italy defected to South
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A senior North Korea diplomat who vanished in Italy in late 2018 lives in South Korea under government protection, lawmakers said Wednesday.
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Lawmakers: N. Korea ex-ambassador to Italy defected to South
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A senior North Korea diplomat who vanished in Italy in late 2018 lives in South Korea under government protection, lawmakers said Wednesday.