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‘Better than a real man’: young Chinese women turn to AI boyfriends

Agence France-Presse Twenty-five-year-old Chinese office worker Tufei says her boyfriend has everything she could ask for in a romantic partner: he's kind, empathetic, and sometimes they talk for hours. Except he isn't real. Her...

One dead, five injured in New York subway shooting

Agence France-Presse One person was killed and five others were injured in a shooting at a New York subway station just ahead of the busy rush hour Monday afternoon, officials said. Authorities were...

‘I want to rest in peace’: Ecuador decriminalizes euthanasia

Agence France-Presse Ecuador decriminalized euthanasia on Wednesday, becoming the second Latin American country to allow the procedure, in response to a lawsuit brought by a terminally ill patient. With seven of its nine...

World sees first 12 months above 1.5C warming level: climate monitor

Agence France-Presse Earth has endured 12 months of temperatures 1.5 degrees Celsius hotter than the pre-industrial era for the first time on record, Europe's climate monitor said Thursday, in what scientists called...

Blinken heads to Egypt to seek ‘enduring end’ to Gaza war

Agence France-Presse US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was due in Egypt on Tuesday as part of a Middle East crisis tour seeking a new truce and "an enduring end" to the...

Wildfires scorch central Chile, death toll tops 110

Agence France-Presse The death toll from central Chile's blazing wildfires climbed to at least 112 people on Sunday, after President Gabriel Boric warned the number would rise "significantly" as teams search gutted...

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