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Brew, smell, and serve: AI steals the show at CES 2026
AFP, Published on 10/01/2026
» LAS VEGAS - AI took over CES 2026, powering coffee machines to brew the perfect espresso, a device to create your perfect scent, and ball-hitting tennis robots that make you forget it's human against machine.
Impoverished Filipinos forge a life among the dead
AFP, Published on 30/10/2025
» MANILA - In teeming Manila, where poverty runs deep and millions lack adequate shelter, some of the living have found refuge among the dead.
Faced with US heat waves, the Navajo push for power -- and A/C
AFP, Published on 13/07/2025
» TONALEA (UNITED STATES) - Workmen plant electricity poles in the rust-orange earth of the Navajo Nation and run cables to Christine Shorty's house -- finally giving her power against the searing Arizona desert heat.
Trade war casts pall as China's leaders meet
AFP, Published on 04/03/2025
» BEIJING - China's leadership is gathering at the largest political event of the year on Tuesday, seeking a response to US President Donald Trump's latest salvo of tariffs targeting an already sluggish Chinese economy.
600 workers detained as Samsung protests escalate in India
Reuters, Published on 01/10/2024
» CHENNAI - Indian police on Tuesday said it has detained around 600 Samsung Electronics workers and union members for organising a street protest, as a strike at the South Korean firm's home appliances plant in Tamil Nadu state entered its fourth week.
London's Luton Airport suspends flights due to 'significant fire'
AFP, Published on 11/10/2023
» LUTON (UNITED KINGDOM) - London's Luton Airport has suspended all flights until Wednesday afternoon and asked passengers not to travel there after a "significant fire" caused the partial collapse of a parking structure.
Greek flood victims race to rebuild
AFP, Published on 26/09/2023
» VLOCHOS, Greece - When Storm Daniel this month dumped cataclysmic amounts of rain on his village in central Greece, Nikos Falangas barely had time to flee.
China built more 5G base stations in 3 months than US did in 2 years
South China Morning Post, Published on 20/07/2023
» China has exceeded its target for 5G base stations six months ahead of time, having built 3 million of them by the end of June, latest government data showed.
Turkey quake survivors' latest menace -- dust
AFP, Published on 16/07/2023
» SAMANDAğ, Turkey: The excavator tore into the remnants of the damaged building in southeast Turkey, bringing it crashing down into a cloud of dust -- the latest menace facing survivors of the deadly February quake that ravaged the region.
Kherson residents return to flood-ruined homes after dam destroyed
AFP, Published on 23/06/2023
» KHERSON (UKRAINE) - "My whole life was in this house. Now I have nothing," said Tetiana Pivneva, after returning to her flooded home in the Ukraine city of Kherson following the catastrophic destruction of a dam.