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By Christopher Knight / Los Angeles Times
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SAN FRANCISCO—Che Voigt believes his company has solved problems that have plagued the working world since the advent of typing.
CAIRO—Air strikes rocked Syria on Tuesday, killing more than a dozen people in rebel-held areas of the besieged northern city of Aleppo, and the shelling of a government-held area in a southern city killed at least six more people, activists and state media said.
Rebel-held eastern Aleppo could be “totally destroyed” by year’s end if a campaign of ferocious bombardment of the Syrian city by Russia and Syria continues, a senior United Nations envoy warned on Thursday.
JUST ask any one of the 300,000 Americans who, in any given year, develop kidney stones: What if the excruciating pain of passing one of those little devils could be prevented by strapping yourself into a make-believe runaway mine train, throwing your hands in the air and enduring G-forces as high as 2.5 for about three minutes? Would you do it?
JOHANNESBURG—Some of the 276 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram have been killed in Nigerian air force bombings, the group said in a video released on Sunday.
One day after US health officials announced an early start to a clinical trial to test a Zika vaccine in humans, researchers reported in the journal Science that three different types of vaccines designed to block the virus all worked to perfection in monkeys.
CARACAS, Venezuela—Venezuela, where anger over food shortages is still mounting, continued to be roiled this week by angry protests and break-ins of grocery stores and businesses that have left five dead, at least 30 injured and 200 arrested, according to various news reports.
SAN FRANCISCO—When Yahoo! announced last year that it had lost $42 million reviving NBC’s TV series Community and launching two other original shows, the company framed it as a failed experiment. It didn’t work, so Yahoo! was cutting its losses.
Hours after effectively clinching the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump vowed on Thursday to withdraw the United States from the historic Paris Agreement among 195 nations to cut greenhouse-gas emissions in an effort to stop global warming.
CAIRO—Nearly four hours into a flight from Paris to Cairo, an Egyptian passenger plane with 66 people aboard abruptly swerved and plunged thousands of feet before vanishing from radar screens over the Mediterranean Sea, officials said.
SACRAMENTO, California—In Mexico, Marco Nava was a trained cosmetologist working in a salon. He specialized in hair styling and coloring. But for eight of the nine years since he came to the United States illegally he toiled in the shadows, working as a field hand harvesting grapes.
As many as 13.1 million people living along US coastlines could face flooding by the end of the century because of rising sea levels, according to a new study that warns that large numbers of Americans could be forced to relocate to higher ground.
Researchers who have analyzed America’s eating habits say they can sum up what’s wrong with our diet in just two words: ultra-processed foods.
GENEVA—The United Nations special envoy for Syria on Wednesday announced a pause in peace talks in Geneva, Switzerland, temporarily derailing the major diplomatic initiative aimed at ending the country’s almost five-year-old war.
GENEVA—There will be no opening ceremony; the guest list remains secret; and strenuous efforts are in place to ensure that rival delegates are never in the same room.
CAIRO—The Iraqi military said on Monday that its forces have recaptured the main government complex in Ramadi from Islamic State (IS) fighters who have occupied the city since May, providing a strategic victory and a morale boost to the country’s struggling security forces.
SHENZHEN, China—At least 91 people were missing on Monday, a day after a man-made mountain of excavated soil and construction waste buried dozens of buildings when it swept through an industrial park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
ANAHEIM, California—Disneyland has long promoted itself as a magical refuge from the worries of everyday life.
JOHANNESBURG—The final hours of Pope Francis’s African tour might well have been most dangerous moments of his papacy, as he visited a volatile Muslim neighborhood in the Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui, followed by an open air Mass at a stadium.
By Noelle Carter / Los Angeles Times
MUMBAI, India—Detailing “horrific levels” of violence and likely crimes against humanity in Sri Lanka’s long civil war, the United Nations’s human-rights commissioner called on Wednesday for a hybrid court with international prosecutors and judges to investigate and punish perpetrators.
BEIRUT—The Mexican government on Monday demanded an explanation for an apparently mistaken attack by Egyptian forces that killed 12 members of a tourist convoy in the desert southwest of Cairo.
By Lance Pugmire / Los Angeles Times
CAIRO—In what could mark an ominous shift in tactics, the Egyptian affiliate of Islamic State (IS) on Wednesday posted a gruesome online image purportedly showing the beheaded body of a Croatian man who was abducted last month on the outskirts of Cairo.
Islamic State’s (IS) Egyptian affiliate released a video on Wednesday threatening to kill a Croatian hostage in 48 hours if Muslim women aren’t released from Egypt’s jails.
MUMBAI, India—As US-backed forces closed in on southern Afghanistan in late 2001, the Taliban leader who lost an eye fighting the Soviet occupation decided not to stay and fight another invader.
SANAA, Yemen—Yemen’s warring sides have agreed to a temporary halt in hostilities to allow desperately needed aid to reach civilians in the Arab world’s poorest country, the United Nations announced on Thursday.
By Heller Mcalpin / Los Angeles Times
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