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French actress Anouk Aimée, a Golden Globe-winner for her role in 'A Man and a Woman,' has died at 92, her agent says.

It’s a gem tucked away in the coastal mountains.

Ownership walked away last week, citing rising California costs and other factors.

The master curator of the strange got his start from a North Bay church.

Thailand’s Senate has voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage, clearing the last legislative hurdle for the country to become the first in Southeast Asia to enact such a law. The bill passed its final reading on Tuesday with the approval of 130 of the 152 members of the Senate in attendance, with 4 voting against it and 18 abstaining. The bill now needs the pro forma endorsement of the king. Thailand will become the third place in Asia, after Taiwan and Nepal, to allow same-sex marriage. Читать дальше...

Home sellers are using hidden cameras to gather intel on buyer feedback. Here's what you should know before you go house hunting.

The Swedish European Union diplomat who was held in Iran for two years and freed in a prisoner swap over the weekend says his release was “the dream that I sometimes did not dare to believe in. Johan Floderus and a second Swedish citizen, Saeed Azizi, returned to Sweden on Saturday in an exchange for Hamid Nouri, an Iranian convicted in Stockholm of committing war crimes over his part in 1988 mass executions in the Islamic Republic. Floderus was arrested in April 2022 in Tehran. He said in a statement... Читать дальше...

Muslim pilgrims are wrapping up the Hajj, or pilgrimage, in the deadly summer heat with the third day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, and the last circumambulation around the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site, in the city of Mecca. The three-day stoning ritual in Mina is among the final rites of the Hajj, and symbolizes the casting away of evil and sin. The final days of the annual Hajj coincide with Muslims around the world celebrating the Eid al-Adha holiday. The burning sun and suffocating hot weather remained Tuesday... Читать дальше...

Eight people accused of involvement in a suspected far-right plot to topple the German government have gone on trial in Munich, in the last of three trials in the sprawling case. The eight Germans, six men and two women, are charged with “preparation of high treasonous undertaking.” They also face charges of membership in or founding a terrorist organization, and some of them are charged with preparing a serious act of violence. The case came to light in late 2022, shocking the country, and a total of 26 people are now in court. Читать дальше...

President Joe Biden is taking an expansive, election-year step to offer relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S. It comes after his own aggressive crackdown at the border earlier this month that enraged advocates and many Democratic lawmakers. The White House says the administration will allow certain spouses of U.S. citizens without legal status to apply for permanent residency and eventually, citizenship. The move could affect upwards of half a million immigrants... Читать дальше...

Half a million immigrants could eventually get US citizenship under new plan from Biden.

Shares are mostly higher in Europe and Asia after U.S. stocks rallied to more records, with gains for technology companies pushing the benchmarks higher. U.S. futures were flat and oil prices declined. On Monday, the S&P 500 rose 0.8%, beating an all-time high it set on Thursday. The Nasdaq composite climbed 1% to set a record of its own. This week has few top-tier economic reports for the United States, apart from an update Tuesday on how much customers are spending at U.S. retailers and a preliminary... Читать дальше...

The Nation's Weather for Tuesday, June 18, 2024

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NATIONAL SUMMARY

Hot and humid weather will continue across the Northeast

today as high pressure persists in the area. High

temperatures will be in the lower to middle 90s, and they

will feel even higher when factoring in humidity.

Heat-related illnesses are possible when outside for

extended periods of time in these conditions. There is

another potential for strong storms across areas of

Minnesota and Iowa. Читать дальше...

A fire broke out at a hospital in Iran’s north, killing nine patients, state media reported. The blaze started at 2200GMT at Qaem Hospital in the city of Rasht, about 205 miles northwest of the capital Tehran, state TV said, leaving six women and three men dead. Chief of the city fire department, Shahram Momeni, said on state TV on Tuesday that an electric short circuit in the basement — which harbors the intensive care unit — malfunctioned, causing the fire. He added that more than 140 people were... Читать дальше...

Thailand’s Senate approve a landmark bill to legalize marriage equality.

Seven people have died in separate events in El Salvador that authorities attributed to heavy rains that have persisted since the weekend. In Tacuba, near the country’s border with Guatemala, five people died Monday after they were buried in landslides triggered by heavy rains. The chief of the country’s civil defense says two of the victims were minors. Two others were killed Monday when they lost control of their vehicle in western El Salvador. That followed the deaths of one person in a landslide... Читать дальше...

Artificial intelligence could be misused to spread misleading or false claims about the Holocaust. That's the warning from a new UNESCO report. The international agency published its findings on Tuesday, arguing that powerful AI programs could allow hate groups to generate realistic photos and images that falsely call into question the murder of Jews and other groups by the Nazis. Widespread use of AI programs for educational purposes could also increase the likelihood that people stumble across unreliable information about the Holocaust. Читать дальше...

The United States has renewed a warning that it’s obligated to defend its close treaty ally a day after Filipino navy personnel were injured and their supply boats damaged in one of the most serious confrontations between the Philippines and China in a disputed shoal in the South China Sea. China and the Philippines blamed each other for instigating Monday’s hostilities in the Second Thomas Shoal. A small Filipino navy contingent aboard a grounded warship at the shoal has been closely watched by Chinese coast guard... Читать дальше...

South Korean officials issued return-to-work orders for doctors participating in a one-day walkout as part of a protracted strike against government plans to boost medical school admissions, starting next year. Since February, more than 12,000 trainee doctors have remained on strike amid a deepening standoff with government officials, who want to grow the country’s number of doctors by up to 10,000 by 2035. According to South Korea’s health ministry, about 4% of the country’s 36,000 private clinics... Читать дальше...

Chinese Premier Li Qiang has ending his Australian tour in the west coast city of Perth where he focused on China’s investment in critical minerals, clean energy and busines links. Li last week became the first Chinese premier to visit New Zealand then Australia in seven years. He left Perth late Tuesday to become the first premier to visit Malaysia since 2015. Li is China’s second-most powerful leader after President Xi Jinping. He inspected iron ore miner Fortescue’s clean energy research facility while in Perth. Читать дальше...

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India and the U.S. have pledged to boost defense and technology cooperation and remove long-standing barriers to bilateral strategic trade, following a meeting between the national security advisers of both countries. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan was on a two-day visit on Tuesday to the Indian capital, New Delhi, the first from a high-ranking U.S. official since Prime Minister Narendra Modi secured a third straight term in India’s general election earlier this month. Sullivan met with his counterpart... Читать дальше...

Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been granted release on bail hours after he was formally indicted on a charge of defaming the country’s monarchy in one of several court cases that have unsteadied Thai politics. His lawyer told reporters Tuesday that Thaksin was ready to enter the judicial process. Thaksin was originally charged in 2016 but the case was not pursued then because he was in exile to avoid punishment on other legal judgments he decried as political. He served minimal... Читать дальше...

A twin-engine Cessna airplane has crashed in a residential area in north-central Colorado, killing two people aboard and starting a fire that burned two mobile homes. Police in Steamboat Springs said the pilot and a lone passenger were killed in the crash Monday afternoon near the Steamboat Springs Airport. Police say all residents of the mobile home park were accounted for. The Cessna 421 plane was believed to have taken off from Longmont, Colorado, and was on its way to Ogden, Utah. Fire officials... Читать дальше...

South Korea's military says soldiers fired warning shots to repel North Korean soldiers who temporarily crossed the rivals’ land border for the second time this month. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said around 20 to 30 North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the military demarcation line Tuesday morning. It said the North Korean soldiers retreated after the South broadcasted warnings and fired warning shots. The South’s military has observed increased North Korean construction activities along... Читать дальше...