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World leaders set to vie for AI domination at Paris summit

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4 mn readAs I write, there are a lot of powerful people around the world preparing to make their way to Paris – and a sense that many of them are holding their breath. On Monday, against the sumptuous backdrop of the city’s 125-year-old Grand Palais, representatives from 80 countries including world leaders, tech bosses, academics and […]

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Investigations don’t undo air crashes but they prevent tragic repeats

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3 mn readIt’s the story you never want to have to cover as an aviation reporter. Last week, we saw the first fatal crash of a U.S. airliner in almost 16 years when an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines regional jet over the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport.  Nearly 70 people died […]

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Postal Service suspends incoming packages from China, Hong Kong

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< 1 mn readThe U.S. Postal Service will temporarily suspend accepting inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong Posts until further notice, the USPS website showed. The change, effective from Feb. 4, will not impact the flow of letters and flats from China and Hong Kong, according to the website. USPS did not immediately comment on whether this […]

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Ice storm bears down on Midwest, Northeast

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2 mn readA winter storm is forecast to spread ice and snow across portions of the central and eastern U.S. today, bringing widespread travel troubles and also the threat of power outages. Although snow is expected in some spots, most of the precipitation is expected to fall as a mix of freezing rain and sleet starting later […]

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Italy restarts bid to deport migrants to Albania

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2 mn readAn Italian Navy ship has delivered 49 people to an Albanian port as Rome resumed the controversial transfer of migrants to the Balkan nation. Italian authorities said that the ship docked in the port of Shengjin on Tuesday morning, and disembarked the group. It is Rome’s third attempt to process asylum claims in Albania, after Italian […]

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7 dead, including 1 on ground, after a medevac jet with a child patient and her mother crashes in Philadelphia, mayor says

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5 mn readSeven people are dead, including one in a car on the ground, after a twin-engine medevac jet carrying a child patient and her mother crashed in a neighborhood in northeast Philadelphia Friday night, the mayor said Saturday morning. At least 19 were injured on the ground. The six people on the plane were Mexican nationals, […]

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