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Updated 15 hours, 37 minutes ago

Israel says it killed a top Iranian general as Trump warns people to flee Iranian capital

Israel claimed Tuesday to have killed a top Iranian general as it traded more strikes with its longtime foe, and U…

Updated 1 day, 14 hours ago
Spaniards turn water guns on visitors in Barcelona and Mallorca to protest mass tourism

Martínez, a 42-year-old administrative assistant, is one of a growing number of residents who are convinced that tourism has gone too far in the city of 1.7 mi…

Updated 1 day, 15 hours ago
The world’s most-visited museum shuts down with staff sounding the alarm on mass tourism

ust a day earlier, coordinated anti-tourism protests swept across southern Europe. Thousands rallied in Mallorca, Venice, Lisbon and beyond, denouncing an econ…

Updated 3 days, 6 hours ago
Israel targets Iran's Defense Ministry headquarters as Tehran unleashes deadly missile strike

Amid the continued conflict, planned negotiations between Iran and the United States over Tehran's nuclear program were cancelled, throwing into question when …

Updated 4 days, 16 hours ago
Israel strikes Iran's nuclear sites and kills its top generals. Iran vows 'severe' retaliation

Israel launched blistering attacks on the heart of Iran's nuclear and military structure Friday, deploying warplanes and drones previously smuggled into the co…

Updated 5 days, 13 hours ago
At least 240 people, including those on the ground, killed in the Air India crash, official says

Another medic said Ramesh told him that immediately after the plane took off, it began descending and suddenly split in two, throwing him out before a loud exp…

Updated 6 days, 15 hours ago
IOC leaders praise Los Angeles amid unrest in 2028 Olympics host city

Olympic officials meeting Wednesday in Switzerland took a calm, longer view of the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles after days of images of deployed military a…

Updated 1 week ago
Israel deports Greta Thunberg after Gaza-bound ship she was on was seized

Israel deported activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday, a day after the Gaza-bound ship she was on was seized by the Israeli military.

Updated 1 week, 4 days ago
D-Day veterans return to Normandy to mark 81st anniversary of landings

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth commemorated the anniversary of the D-Day landings, in which American soldiers played a leading role, with veterans at the …

Updated 1 week, 4 days ago
Gaza marks the start of Eid with outdoor prayers in the rubble and food growing ever scarcer

Palestinians across the war-ravaged Gaza Strip marked the start of one of Islam’s most important holidays with prayers outside destroyed mosques and homes earl…

Updated 1 week, 5 days ago
Fans get in line, long lines, for highly anticipated launch of the Nintendo Switch 2

In the U.S., a chaotic pre-order process in April left some fans frustrated after the consoles quickly sold out. Still, some eager fans lined up early Thursday…

Updated 1 week, 6 days ago
A hungry wild elephant raids a grocery store in Thailand for snacks

In a video posted on social media, Kamploy Kakaew, the shop owner, appeared amused as she described the moment the elephant rifled her shop. She said he ate ab…

Updated 2 weeks ago
Ukraine's drone attack on Russian warplanes was a serious blow to the Kremlin's strategic arsenal

While some Russian military bloggers compared it to another infamous Sunday surprise attack — that of Japan's strike on the U.S. base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 —…

Updated 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Trump-backed conservative Karol Nawrocki wins Poland's presidential race

The result leaves Tusk politically wounded, and there are questions about whether his coalition can survive to the end of its term in late 2027. There were alr…

Updated 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Witnesses in Gaza describe more chaos at food distribution sites

Chaos erupted again Thursday as tens of thousands of desperate Palestinians in the Gaza Strip tried to collect food from distribution sites run by a new U.S.- …