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Rare blue diamond shines at a $100 million exhibition in Abu Dhabi
Visitors focused on the 10-karat blue diamond from South Africa, considered one of the most important blue diamond…
Trump warns Zelenskyy to quickly negotiate war's end with Russia or risk not having a nation to lead
The Republican president was riled by Zelenskyy's charge that Trump "lives in this disinformation space” fostered by Moscow. “We have seen this disinformation.…
Russia and the US agree to work toward improving ties and ending the Ukraine war in landmark talks
Trump's national security adviser, Michael Waltz, and special Mideast envoy Steven Witkoff joined Rubio at the table, along with Lavrov and Russian President V…
Top Russian and American officials will hold talks on ending the Ukraine war without Kyiv
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Putin's foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov arrived in the Saudi capital on Monday, according to Russian state TV. …
Hong Kong residents compete to name twin panda cubs who just turned 6 months old
The pair, currently identified as the “Elder Sister” and the “Little Brother," will make their public debut on Sunday and meet visitors for five hours daily. T…
From roses in Vietnam to engraved 'love locks' in Germany, the world celebrates Valentine's Day
For anyone who’s been searching for signs of love in this world, there was proof of it this Valentine’s Day on the Eiffel Tower, where a couple embraced in a k…
A far-right party is heading for its strongest result yet in Germany's election
After returning to parliament in 2021 with reduced support of 10.3%, AfD picked up strength as Chancellor Olaf Scholz's center-left government bickered through…
Baltic nations count final hours to ending electricity ties to Russia
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen and other dignitaries are expected at a ceremony on Sunday as a specially-made 9-meter (29.5-foot) tall clock in downtown Vilnius…
Sweden's worst mass shooting leaves at least 11 dead, including the gunman
Officials said three women and two men, all with gunshot wounds, underwent surgery at Orebro University Hospital. All were in serious but stable condition afte…
As hundreds of quakes rattle Greek islands, a few brave tourists have Santorini to themselves
Efthimios Lekkas, head of the state-run Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization, said the epicenter of the earthquakes in the Aegean was moving northwa…
Hospitals in eastern Congo are crowded with wounded and exhausting their supplies
Bethesda is one of several hospitals in Goma that The Associated Press visited that has inadequate personnel and supplies. The city hosts many of the close to …
Serbian protesters march ahead of their Danube bridge blockade as driver rams Belgrade demonstration
Along the way to Novi Sad on Friday, the students were greeted by cheering citizens who honked their car horns or came out of their homes to offer food and dri…
A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori
The law passed Thursday gives Taranaki Maunga all the rights, powers, duties, responsibilities and liabilities of a person. Its legal personality has a name: T…
The Year of the Snake is underway with Lunar New Year festivities around the world
The Lunar New Year is a time to wish for good luck and prosperity in the coming year for oneself and others.
At Auschwitz memorial, survivors see echoes of the past in rising antisemitism
In all, the Nazi regime murdered 6 million Jews from all over Europe, annihilating two-thirds of Europe's Jews and one-third of all Jews worldwide. In 2005, th…
After 80 years, not many Auschwitz survivors are left. One man makes telling the stories his mission
Fürst, now 92, is one of a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors able to share first-person accounts of the horrors they endured, as the world marks the 80th…