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Dec 13, 2024 | 
nbcnews.com | Brian Cheng
Dec. 13, 2024, 10:58 AM UTCA U.S. airman stationed in Japan was sentenced to five years in prison Friday after being convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a minor. Senior Airman Brennon Washington, 25, was stationed at Kadena Air Base on the Japanese island of Okinawa when he approached the girl, who was under 16, at a local park on Dec. 24, 2023, and took her to his off-base residence.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
nbcnews.com | Brian Cheng
Dec. 12, 2024, 12:17 PM UTCThe U.S. government condemned the Taliban on Wednesday for reportedly ordering the suspension of medical education for women and girls in Afghanistan. “This directive, the latest in a series of efforts that jeopardize the rights and lives of Afghan women and girls, is an unjustifiable attack on women’s access to education and health care,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
msn.com | Brian Cheng
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
nbcnews.com | Brian Cheng
Dec. 6, 2024, 11:53 AM UTCArsonists caused extensive damage to a synagogue in the city of Melbourne on Friday in what Australia’s Prime Minister Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has condemned as an antisemitic attack. “There is no place in Australia for an outrage such as this,” Albanese told reporters in the city of Perth after the Adass Israel Synagogue was engulfed in flames.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
nbcnews.com | Brian Cheng
Dec. 5, 2024, 4:53 PM UTCWhen worshippers first prayed at St. Peter's Chapel 300 years ago, they probably thought about communing with Jesus as an expression of faith as opposed to a literal conversation. Three centuries on, at Switzerland's oldest church in the city of Lucerne, worshippers can now talk to a computer generated avatar of the Son of God.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
businessandamerica.com | Brian Cheng
For some in South Korea’s capital, Seoul, the heavy snow brought a winter wonderland, scenes reminiscent of a picture postcard. For others it was fatal. Armed with umbrellas and wrapped up in warm clothing, some braved the cold to walk around the grounds of the city’s ancient Gyeongbokgung Palace. At the same site, several young women wore traditional hanbok dresses to pose for selfies despite the frigid conditions.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
nbcnews.com | Peter Guo |Jennifer Jett |Brian Cheng
Australian lawmakers on Thursday approved a landmark ban on social media for children under 16, in some of the world’s toughest such controls. The ban, which aims to address the impact of excessive social media use on children’s physical and mental health, affects social media platforms including X, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and Reddit, but not YouTube.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Peter Guo |Jennifer Jett |Brian Cheng
NowThese are the best new MacBook deals for Black Friday: options as low as $599With Apple Intelligence requiring an M1 chip or newer, it’s never been a better time to buy your first MacBook, or upgrade an older MacBook you’re still holding on to. MacBooks are more affordable than ever in the Apple Silicon era, with the cheapest options starting below $600.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
nbcnews.com | Brian Cheng
Nov. 28, 2024, 11:20 AM UTCFor some in South Korea's capital Seoul, the heavy snowfall brought a winter wonderland, scenes reminiscent of a picture postcard. For others it was fatal. Armed with umbrellas and wrapped up in warm clothing, some braved the cold to walk around the grounds of the city's ancient Gyeongbokgung Palace. At the same site several young women wore traditional hanbok dresses to pose for selfies despite the frigid conditions.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
nbcnews.com | Brian Cheng
Nov. 22, 2024, 8:03 AM UTCTech billionaire Elon Musk, the owner of social media platform X, criticized proposed legislation in Australia that aims to ban social media for children under 16.
