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World News

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Updated 17 hours, 9 minutes ago

Volcano on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula erupts for the 7th time in a year

While the eruption poses no threat to air travel, authorities warned of gas emissions across parts of the peninsul…

Updated 5 months, 1 week ago
Cooking and coughing: Respiratory diseases plague Kenya as more people burn wood to save money

Respiratory diseases have been the most prevalent diseases in Kenya for the past several years and are on the rise, according to government authorities, with 1…

Updated 5 months, 1 week ago
Bizarre psychological warfare using K-pop and trash balloons raises tensions between the 2 Koreas

North Korea views frontline South Korean broadcasts and civilian leafleting campaigns as a grave provocation as it bans access to foreign news for most of its …

Updated 5 months, 2 weeks ago
African elephants call each other by unique names, new study shows

Each of these naming species also possesses the ability to learn to pronounce unique new sounds throughout their lives — a rare talent that elephants also poss…

Updated 5 months, 2 weeks ago
A World War II veteran just married his bride near Normandy's D-Day beaches. He's 100, she's 96

The location was the elegant stone-worked town hall of Carentan, a key initial D-Day objective that saw ferocious fighting after the June 6, 1944, Allied landi…

Updated 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Biden apologizes to Zelenskyy for monthslong congressional holdup to weapons that let Russia advance

Zelenskyy pressed for all Americans to support his country's defense against Russia's invasion

Updated 5 months, 2 weeks ago
D-Day anniversary haunted by dwindling number of veterans and shadowed by Europe's new war

The commemorations for the more than 4,400 Allied dead on D-Day and many tens of thousands more, including French civilians, killed in the ensuing Battle of No…

Updated 5 months, 2 weeks ago
In France, D-Day evokes both the joys of liberation and the pain of Normandy's 20,000 civilian dead

“The Americans, for us, were gods,” Marchais, now 86, recalled. “Whatever they do in the world, they will always be gods to me.”

Updated 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Mexico awakes with joy, division to the first woman elected president, Claudia Sheinbaum

With about 78% of votes counted, Sheinbaum had some 59% of votes, about twice as many as her nearest competitor Xóchitl Gálvez, who got around 28%.

Updated 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Israel's military says it's taken control of a strategic corridor along Gaza's border with Egypt

“The army is achieving its objectives but (it) said from the first days it was presenting its plan to the Cabinet that the war will be long,” he said. “They ha…

Updated 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Pope apologizes after being quoted using vulgar term about gay men in talk about ban on gay priests

With the statement, Bruni carefully avoided an outright confirmation that the pope had indeed used the term, in keeping with the Vatican's tradition of not rev…

Updated 6 months ago
Top UN court orders Israel to halt military offensive in Rafah; Israel is unlikely to comply

Earlier, Israel signaled it, too, would brush off an ICJ order to stop its operations. “No power on earth will stop Israel from protecting its citizens and goi…

Updated 6 months ago
Justice Department says illegal monopoly by Ticketmaster and Live Nation drives up prices for fans

Live Nation has for years denied that it is violating antitrust laws and said Thursday that the lawsuit “won’t solve the issues fans care about relating to tic…

Updated 6 months ago
Norway, Ireland and Spain say they will recognize a Palestinian state, deepening Israel's isolation

While some 140 countries — more than two-thirds of the United Nations — recognize a Palestinian state, Wednesday’s cascade of announcements could build momentu…

Updated 6 months ago
Mourners begin days of funerals for Iran's president and others killed in helicopter crash

Thousands in black slowly walked beside the coffins, some throwing flowers up to them as an emcee wept through a loudspeaker for men he described as martyrs

Updated 6 months ago
Mourners begin days of funerals for Iran's president and others killed in helicopter crash

Thousands in black slowly walked beside the coffins, some throwing flowers up to them as an emcee wept through a loudspeaker for men he described as martyrs