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PARIS (AP) ” Anna Karina, the French New Wave actress who became an icon of the cinema in the 1960s and was the muse of Jean-Luc Godard, has died. She was 79.The French culture minister announced her death on Twitter on Sunday. French media said that the Danish-born Karina had cancer and died Saturday.”Her look was the look of the New Wave. It will remain so forever,” Culture Minister Franck Riester tweeted.’Anna Karina radiated. She magnetized the entire world,” […]

KEYPORT, N.J. (AP) ” A New Jersey man whose number was found in the back pocket of one of the perpetrators of last week’s fatal attack on a Jewish market has been arrested for illegally possessing a weapon, federal authorities said.Ahmed A-Hady, of Keyport, 35, was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, the U.S. attorney’s office said late Saturday. A-Hady hasn’t been charged with providing any of the weapons used in Tuesday’s bloody rampage in Jersey City.David […]

MADRID (AP) ” Marathon U.N. climate talks ended Sunday with a slim compromise that sparked widespread disappointment, after major polluters resisted calls for ramping up efforts to keep global warming at bay and negotiators postponed debate about rules for international carbon markets for another year.Organizers kept delegates from almost 200 nations in Madrid far beyond Friday’s scheduled close of the two-week talks. In the end, negotiators endorsed a general call for greater efforts […]

The gleaming white booth towered over the medical conference in Italy in October, advertising a new brand of antidote for opioid overdoses. ‘Be prepared. Get naloxone. Save a life,’ the slogan on its walls said.Some conference attendees were stunned when they saw the company logo: Mundipharma, the international affiliate of Purdue Pharma ” the maker of the blockbuster opioid, OxyContin, widely blamed for unleashing the American overdose epidemic.Here they were cashing in on a […]