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[ad_1] A chess-playing robot fractured the finger of its 7-year-old opponent during a tournament in Moscow last week. The incident happened after the boy hurried the artificial intelligence-powered robot, the president of the Moscow Chess Federation told the Russian state news agency Tass. “The robot broke the child’s finger — this, …

[ad_1] Two people were killed and two others were injured in an early morning shooting spree in a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia, that may have preyed on homeless people, authorities said Monday. “Four people were shot by what is believed to be a lone gunman,” Ghalib Bhayani, a chief …

[ad_1] MASKWACIS, Alberta — Pope Francis issued a historic apology Monday for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed families and marginalized generations. “I am deeply sorry,” Francis said to applause …