CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A doodle created by All Saints Cathedral School third-grader Harika Jhanwar is the territory’s winning entry for the 2024 Doodle for Google
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Writer Leonardo Padura chronicles life in Cuba as his detective ‘alter ego’ solves gripping crimes
HAVANA (AP) — His novels recount gruesome murders, thefts, scams, bribes and humiliating secrets. But those are not even the most important themes in the
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Morocco hosts one of Africa’s first exhibitions of Cuban art, a milestone for Afro-Cuban painters
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — When Morocco ‘s King Mohamed VI visited Havana in 2017, Cuban-American gallery owner Alberto Magnan impressed him with a “full immersion” in the
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Superman’s first appearance sells for $6 million, becoming world’s most valuable comic
AUSTIN — A comic book featuring Superman’s first-ever appearance has sold for $6 million, making it the most valuable comic edition in existence. Texas-based Heritage
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Maryse Conde, Caribbean chronicler of colonialism, dies at 90
PARIS — Guadeloupe-born author Maryse Conde, who wrote about colonialism, slavery and the French-Caribbean diaspora, died in southern France at the age of 90. Often
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Louis Gossett Jr., 1st Black man to win supporting actor Oscar, dies at 87
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV
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How Chinese science fiction went from underground magazines to Netflix extravaganza
CHENGDU, China (AP) — For a few days in October 2023, the capital of the science fiction world was Chengdu, China. Fans traveled from around
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A Danish hippie oasis has fought drug sales for years. Now, locals want to tear up the whole street
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The inhabitants of Copenhagen’s freewheeling Christiania neighborhood plan to dig up the aptly named Pusher Street, in their latest attempt to
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How ancient cave art is rewriting Puerto Rican history
SAN JUAN — A groundbreaking study of ancient cave paintings in Puerto Rico has pushed back the record of precolonial cultures on the archipelago. Some of
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‘20 Days in Mariupol’ wins best documentary Oscar, a first for AP and PBS’ ‘Frontline’
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mstyslav Chernov’s “20 Days in Mariupol,” a harrowing first-person account of the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, won the
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