Putin calls Kerch Bridge attack “a terrorist act” by Kyiv

OCT 10, 2022 @ 2030 GMT | A firefighter looks at a part of a wall falling from the residential building that was heavily damaged after a Russian attack in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022. (AP Photo)

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday called the attack that damaged the huge bridge connecting Russia to its annexed territory of Crimea “a terrorist act” masterminded by Ukrainian special services.

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Chinese firm tests electric flying taxi in Dubai

OCT 10, 2022 @ 1800 GMT | A XPeng X2, an electric flying taxi developed by the Guangzhou-based XPeng, Inc’s aviation affiliate, is tested in front of the Marina District in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Oct. 10, 2022. Monday’s demonstration was held with an empty cockpit, but the company says it carried out a manned flight test last year of the two-passenger vehicle. (AP Photo)

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Chinese firm tested out an electric flying taxi in Dubai on Monday, offering a glimpse of futuristic technology that could one day whisk people through cities high above any traffic.

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Multiple explosions rock eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv

OCT 8, 2022 @ 1845 GMT | Smoke rises after big explosions in Kharkiv, Ukraine, early Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022. (AP Photo)

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A series of explosions rocked the eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv early Saturday, sending towering plumes of illuminated smoke into the sky and triggering a series of secondary explosions.

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SpaceX delivers Russian, Native American women to station

OCT 7, 2022 @ 1800 GMT | In this image from video made available by NASA, Russian Cosmonaut Anna Kikina enters the International Space Station from a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. Kikina is the first Russian to launch from the U.S., in 20 years. (NASA via AP)

CAPE CANAVERAL,, United States (AP) — A Russian cosmonaut who caught a U.S. lift to the International Space Station arrived at her new home Thursday for a five-month stay, accompanied by a Japanese astronaut and two from NASA, including the first Native American woman in space.

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3 physicists share Nobel Prize for work on quantum science

OCT 5, 2022 @ 2100 GMT | Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Hans Ellegren, centre, Eva Olsson, left and Thors Hans Hansson, members of the Nobel Committee for Physics announce the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, from left to right on the screen, Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, during a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. (TT News Agency via AP)

WASHINGTON, United States (AP) — Three scientists jointly won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for proving that tiny particles could retain a connection with each other even when separated, a phenomenon once doubted but now being explored for potential real-world applications such as encrypting information.

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Smacked asteroid’s debris trail more than 6,000 miles long

OCT 4, 2022 @ 2045 GMT | This image made available by NOIRLab shows a plume of dust and debris blasted from the surface of the asteroid Dimorphos by NASA’s DART spacecraft after it impacted on Sept. 26, 2022, captured by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab’s SOAR telescope in Chile. The expanding, comet-like tail is more than 6,000 miles (10,000 kilometers) long. (NOIRLab via AP)

CAPE CANAVERAL, United States (AP) — The asteroid that got smacked by a NASA spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands of miles of debris from the impact.

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Herd the news? Wild boar piglet adopted by cows

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SEP 30, 2022 @ 1530 GMT | Wild boar “Frida” runs between two cows on a pasture near the river Weser in the district of Holzminden, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. A cow herd in Germany has gained an unlikely following, after adopting a lone wild boar piglet. Farmer Friedrich Stapel told the dpa news agency that he spotted the piglet among the herd in the central German community of Brevoerd about three weeks ago. It had likely lost its group when they crossed a nearby river. (dpa via AP)

BERLIN, Germany (AP) — A cow herd in Germany has gained an unlikely following, after adopting a lone wild boar piglet.

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India stays neutral on Ukraine war, previews G-20 term at UN

SEP 25, 2022 @ 1845 GMT | Foreign Minister of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo)

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — India’s foreign minister laid out the country’s plans for its turn at the G-20 presidency during his speech Saturday in front of the U.N. General Assembly.

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Constitution stops Charles becoming Britain’s ‘green’ king

SEP 22, 2022 @ 1830 GMT | FILE – Britain’s then-Prince Charles addresses a Commonwealth Leaders’ Reception, at the COP26 Summit, at the SECC in Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 2, 2021. Now that he’s monarch, King Charles III — one of Britain’s most prominent environmental voices — will be have to be more careful with his words. (Pool Photo via AP)

LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) — On a blustery November day last year Britain’s future king stood before world leaders to deliver a rallying cry that they should “act with all despatch, and decisively” to confront a common enemy.

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Putin orders partial military call-up, sparking protests

SEP 21, 2022 @ 2100 GMT | In this image made from a video released by the Russian Presidential Press Service, Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the nation in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. (Russian Presidential Press Service via AP)

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilization of reservists Wednesday to bolster his forces in Ukraine, a deeply unpopular move that sparked rare protests across the country and led to almost 1,200 arrests.

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