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BRUSSELS >> Apple today hit out at Meta Platforms, saying its numerous requests to access the iPhone maker’s software tools for its devices coul…
At this year’s iteration of the biennial Exercise Rim of the Pacific — the world’s largest naval exercise — port security is playing a prominent…
The court-appointed attorney for a 57-year-old Pahoa man accused of killing his wife and two children eight years ago has been granted a private…
When Eric Ripert was a young cook at La Tour D’Argent, possibly the oldest restaurant in Paris and certainly one of the stuffiest, all the cooks…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. >> Harvard University said it has removed human skin from the binding of a 19th century book about the afterlife that has been…
The South Pacific island of Niue is one the most remote places in the world. Its closest neighbors, Tonga and American Samoa, are hundreds of mi…
This month Honolulu think tank Pacific Forum is hosting a defense conference on Oahu that will bring together 200 speakers from across the globe…
A federal lawsuit charging that the Honolulu Liquor Commission targeted LGBTQ+ businesses with excessive inspections and other forms of harassme…
BUCHAREST, Romania >> After receiving distressed text messages from a young man worried about the conditions his friend was living in at a socia…
HELSINKI >> Summer is wildfire season in southern Europe, but this year the continent’s north is also at risk, with forest fire warnings in effe…
According to legend, Rome was born April 21, 753 B.C., when Romulus, the survivor of its feuding twin founders, hitched his plow and furrowed a…
MOSCOW >> A top Russian security official warned today about the rising threat of a nuclear war and blasted a German minister for threatening Ru…
The search for a 20-year-old woman visiting from Sweden swept into the ocean Friday evening at Waimea Bay continued Sunday.
LISBON, Portugal >> The billionaire daughter of a former African leader is shedding some of her investments in Europe after she came under offic…
When Hawaii Democrats are feeling nostalgic for the good old days, they sometimes talk about passage of the Prepaid Health Care Act, a law that…
Alana Kysar wants to dispel the myth that Hawaiian food is anything pineapple and ham.
A legendary warbird at the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum a shark-mouthed P-40 Warhawk was recently joined by something far more rare: a 100-y…
LOS ANGELES >> Seventy-nine years ago, a Jewish woman named Lilly Cassirer surrendered her family’s priceless Camille Pissarro painting to the N…