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Updated 8 hours, 7 minutes ago

‘I was fighting for my life’: Indian pilot hailed as hero recalls FlyDubai cockpit attack

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attacker, an Omani national, was arrested in Saudi Arabia and w…

Updated 4 years, 12 months ago
EU regulator OKs Pfizer vaccine booster for 18 and older

The World Health Organization's chief had urged wealthy nations not to use booster doses

Updated 4 years, 12 months ago
Taliban-style security welcomed by some, feared by others

Many Afghans fear the harsh ways of the Taliban

Updated 5 years ago
Africa internet riches plundered, contested by China broker

Lu told The Associated Press that he’s an honest businessman who broke no rules in obtaining the African address blocks

Updated 5 years ago
Georgia says ex-president arrested after returning home

Officials earlier in the day had denied he was in the country

Updated 5 years ago
N. Korea says 4th new test-firing was anti-aircraft missile

North Korea also recently has test-fired a new hypersonic missile

Updated 5 years ago
Ecuador declares prison emergency after 116 killed in riot

Images circulating on social media showed dozens of bodies in the prison’s Pavilions 9 and 10 and scenes that looked like battlefields

Updated 5 years ago
North Korea says hypersonic missile made 1st test flight

North Korea last week made offers to improve relations with South Korea under certain conditions

Updated 5 years ago
Lava from La Palma eruption finally reaches the Atlantic

Lava flows have engulfed at least 656 buildings

Updated 5 years ago
Germany sees calls for quick decisions on new government

Olaf Scholz and his center-left Social Democrats won Sunday's parliamentary election

Updated 5 years ago
Japan to lift all coronavirus emergency steps nationwide

Will be free of emergency requirements for the first time in more than six months

Updated 5 years ago
North Korea fires suspected ballistic missile into sea

U.S. officials have repeatedly expressed hopes to sit down for talks with North Korea

Updated 5 years ago
Uncertain start to post-Merkel era after close German vote

Whoever becomes chancellor will lead Germany into a new era

Updated 5 years ago
UK mulls calling in army to help ease gas shortages at pumps

The haulage industry says the U.K. is short as many as 100,000 truckers

Updated 5 years ago
Back in Haiti, expelled migrant family plans to flee again

The prize was a one-way trip back to the place they had so desperately wanted to escape

Updated 5 years ago
Great Wall of Lights: China’s sea power on Darwin’s doorstep

An armada of nearly 300 Chinese vessels sail halfway across the globe