By Yuri Kageyama The Associated Press KORIYAMA, Japan — She’s 21, has thyroid cancer, and wants people in her prefecture in northeastern Japan to get screened for it. That statement might not seem provocative, but her prefecture is Fukushima, and of the 173 young people with confirmed or suspected cases […]
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By Leanne Italie THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Okonomiyaki, anyone? A survey released Tuesday for the restaurant reservation site OpenTable showed that style of savory Japanese pancake is the No. 1 most befuddling term among 2,035 diners, with one in five saying they won’t order something they don’t understand […]
By Sara Moulton The Associated Press I’ve always been a sucker for scallops. They’re sweet, meaty, cylindrical and bite-sized. This particular recipe puts scallops at the centre of a skewer’s worth of very tasty kebabs. It requires no more than 15 minutes hands-on time and 40 minutes total from start […]
By Aleksandra Sagan The Canadian Press TORONTO — The University of Toronto’s downtown campus will cut ties with its food service provider, Aramark, later this summer and start running most of its on-campus dining options itself, the latest school to satisfy what appears to be a growing appetite for fresh […]
By Michele Salcedo The Associated Press WASHINGTON — David Gilkey, a veteran news photographer and video editor for National Public Radio, and an Afghan translator, Zabihullah Tamanna, were killed while on assignment in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the network says. Gilkey and Tamanna were travelling with an Afghan army unit […]
By Kathleen Hennessey And Ben Fox The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is running out of time and options to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba, so officials are scrambling to release as many prisoners as possible and considering novel legal strategies that include allowing some […]
By Alexander Panetta The Canadian Press SAN FRANCISCO — A soul-searching exercise awaits Democrats opposed to Hillary Clinton, who is on the cusp of securing their party’s presidential nomination Tuesday. They’ll soon be asked to support her in the general-election showdown against Donald Trump if she concludes the last big […]
The Associated Press LAYLAND, W.Va. — Authorities in West Virginia say a man and woman have been arrested on charges that they tried to sell the woman’s baby. Fayette County Sheriff Steve Kessler says in a news release that 25-year-old Ashley N. Harmon and 20-year-old Jonathan Isaac Lucas Flint were […]
By Kathleen Foody And Rachel Zoll The Associated Press ATLANTA — Jimmy Carter is stepping away from his “front-line role” as a member of The Elders, the global human rights group announced Wednesday. Former South African president Nelson Mandela founded the small group of former global leaders in 2007, and […]
By Kristen Gelineau The Associated Press SYDNEY, Australia — Three pieces of debris found washed ashore in Mozambique and the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius will be examined by investigators in Australia to see if they came from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, officials said Thursday. Two of the pieces […]
The Associated Press BEIJING — China’s top general urged Japan to speed up the disposal of leftover World War II chemical weapons on Thursday, a day before President Barack Obama is to visit a Japanese city destroyed by a U.S. nuclear bomb. Gen. Fan Changlong visited the Haerbaling site in […]
By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It’s pump-it-up day at the International Space Station. NASA is releasing air into an inflatable room delivered last month by SpaceX. If all goes well, the pod will swell four times in volume and demonstrate a new way of living […]
