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World News

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Updated 9 hours, 38 minutes ago

Global plastic pollution treaty talks hit critical stage in Canada

Plastic production continues to ramp up globally and is projected to double or triple by 2050 if nothing changes.

Updated 1 day, 1 hour ago
Indigenous groups gathering in Brazil's capital to protest president's land grant decisions

Lula took office in 2023 pledging to resume granting lands to Indigenous peoples, a stark contrast to his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, who kept his promise not…

Updated 4 days, 8 hours ago
Staff and shoppers return to 'somber' Sydney shopping mall 6 days after mass stabbings

There was a large police and security presence, with guards wearing black stab-proof vests posted on each level of the mall. Visitors numbered in the hundreds,…

Updated 5 days, 8 hours ago
Indonesia has several big eruptions and thousands are told to leave

Officials worry that part of the volcano could collapse into the sea and cause a tsunami as in a 1871 eruption there.

Updated 6 days, 3 hours ago
Homes are demolished in Ivory Coast's main city over alleged health concerns. Thousands are homeless

Demolitions in low-income neighborhoods are nothing new in Abidjan, where rapid urbanization has led to a population boom and housing shortages, with nearly on…

Updated 1 week ago
Despite weather glitch, the Paris Olympics flame is lit at the Greek cradle of ancient games

From the ancient stadium in Olympia, a relay of torchbearers will carry the flame along a 5,000-kilometer (3,100-mile) route through Greece, including several …

Updated 1 week, 1 day ago
Your morning coffee may be more than a half million years old

Arabica coffee, prized for its smooth and relatively sweet flavor, now makes up 60% - 70% of the global coffee market and is brewed by brands such as Starbucks, Tim Horton's and Dunkin'

Updated 1 week, 3 days ago
US says it has downed some Iran-launched attack drones en route to Israel

Booms and air raid sirens sounded in Jerusalem early Sunday after Iran launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles toward Israel in an unprecedented reven…

Updated 1 week, 4 days ago
US-China competition to field military drone swarms could fuel global arms race

The unchecked spread of swarm technology "could lead to more instability and conflict around the world,” said Margarita Konaev, an analyst with Georgetown Univ…

Updated 1 week, 5 days ago
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida addresses Congress amid skepticism about US role abroad

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said earlier this week that he hoped Kishida's visit would underscore “that we’re in a worldwide situation here agains…

Updated 1 week, 6 days ago
Track and field becomes first sport to pay prize money at Olympics. Paris gold medalists get $50,000

The prize money will come out of the share of Olympic revenue that that the IOC distributes to World Athletics.

Updated 2 weeks ago
Cruelty for clicks: Cambodia is investigating YouTubers' abuse of monkeys at the Angkor UNESCO site

YouTube, Facebook and other sites remove the videos with graphic content, but scores of other clips of cute monkeys jumping and playing remain, generating thou…

Updated 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Vatican blasts gender-affirming surgery, surrogacy and gender theory as violations of human dignity

The Vatican’s doctrine office issued “Infinite Dignity,” a 20-page declaration that has been in the works for five years.

Updated 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Many cancer drugs remain unproven 5 years after accelerated approval, a study finds

The program was created in 1992 to speed access to HIV drugs. Today, 85% of accelerated approvals go to cancer drugs.

Updated 2 weeks, 5 days ago
ALS drug will be pulled from US market after study showed patients didn't benefit

The drug's failure is a bitter disappointment for patients and advocates, who have pressed the FDA and other federal agencies to fund and approve more experime…