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Robert Tymofichuk, a teacher in Alberta, Canada, spent nearly 2,000 hours building an operational hovercraft from salvaged car parts and with no blueprint.

China imposed a ban last year after Japan began releasing treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. They have agreed to expand monitoring of the water.

A 44-year-old man was in custody, the police said, after the child was attacked Wednesday. Other Japanese schools in China urged caution.

She was on the front lines of dogged fights against injustices, including a recent series of murders of Indigenous women by a white man.

She was on the front lines of dogged fights against injustices, including a recent series of murders of Indigenous women by a white man.

David Lin had tried to open a Christian training center in Beijing. The United States considered him one of three Americans “wrongfully detained” by China.

The theft of an iconic Churchill portrait by Yousuf Karsh went unnoticed for months. But two years later, the police have tracked down the photograph.

The move, made in the hope of addressing an aging population, was decidedly unpopular.

Cairo will receive its full military aid allotment of $1.3 billion after the secretary of state also said it had made progress on releasing political prisoners and protecting Americans.

Fatalities spiked 71 percent last year, far outpacing the 13 percent rise in cases, the World Health Organization said.