By Jessie Pang and Joyce Zhou HONG KONG, April 23 (Reuters) – Nearly five months after a devastating blaze tore through Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court residential complex, Jason Kong took a small torchlight and returned to his blackened apartment for the first time on Thursday, looking for mementoes of his dog. The construction company owner …
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The comet that rambled past us from another star last year likely originated in a cold, isolated corner of the galaxy that had yet to gel into its own solar system, astronomers reported Thursday. A team led by the University of Michigan used the ALMA observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert …
April 22 (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged a Louisiana man with illegally possessing a firearm and lying to federal agents after the weapon was used in Sunday’s massacre of eight children in Shreveport. Police say Shamar Elkins used that gun to kill seven of his own children plus a nephew, ranging in age …
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Voting and civil rights groups sued Alaska elections officials Wednesday, alleging that their sharing of the state’s full voter registration list with the U.S. Department of Justice violates the state constitution. Alaska is one of at least 12 states that has provided or said it would provide detailed information about its …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The hottest new celebrity in Washington, D.C., is Asian elephant calf Linh Mai, who made her public debut Wednesday at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. She is the first elephant calf born at the zoo in 25 years. Mother elephant Nhi Linh gave birth to Linh Mai on Feb. 2 after nearly two …
April 22 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday criticised the former leadership of the International Olympic Committee as “shameful” and “cowardly” and said he hoped for a new approach from those now in charge of the Olympic movement. Putin made the remarks during a Kremlin ceremony honouring Russian boxers, according to Russian news …
MEXICO CITY, April 22 (Reuters) – A Mexican senate committee asked Chihuahua Governor Maria Eugenia Campos and the state’s attorney general Cesar Gustavo Jauregui to provide details on a car crash that killed two U.S. officials and two Mexican officials. The Chihuahua authorities were asked to appear at the constitutional affairs and public safety committees …
KYIV, April 23 (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Harry made an unannounced visit to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Thursday in a show of support for the country in its fifth year of war with Russia. “It’s good to be back in Ukraine,” Prince Harry said on his arrival at a Kyiv railway station early on …
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish lawmakers passed a bill late Wednesday that includes restricting access to social media platforms for children under 15, state media reported. Its passage comes a week after a 14-year-old boy killed nine students and a teacher at a middle school in Kahramanmaras, southern Turkey, in a gun attack. Police are investigating …
HELSINKI, April 23 (Reuters) – Finland will increase defence spending to 3.2% of gross domestic product by 2030, the government said, as it decided to cut other expenditure and drafted its budget for the next four years. Finland’s economy has been ailing since neighbouring Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, prompting Helsinki …