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Beirut, Lebanon – Israel announced dozens of new air strikes on Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon Tuesday, a day after 492 people, including 35 children, were killed in the deadliest bombardment since a devastating war in 2006. Israel’s…
Kinshasa, DR CONGO – The Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicenter of an mpox outbreak, on Thursday, received its first vaccines — almost half of 200,000 doses donated by the European Union and due to arrive by…
Pyinmana, MYANMAR– Hundreds of villagers in Myanmar waded or swam through chin-high waters, fleeing severe floods around the remote capital Naypyidaw on Friday, while Vietnam began clearing up after deadly Typhoon Yagi. People in parts of…
Sydney, Australia—The prime minister said Tuesday that Australia will ban children from using social media with a minimum age limit of 16, vowing to get kids off their devices and “onto the footy fields.” Federal legislation to…
Hanoi, VIETNAM– Emergency workers raced to evacuate thousands of people from severe floods Tuesday after Typhoon Yagi swept through northern Vietnam, killing 63 people and leaving 40 others missing. Yagi struck on Saturday with winds in excess…
Red-faced Kenyan police on Tuesday arrested eight of their own officers and launched a manhunt after a man accused of murdering and dismembering 42 women escaped from a Nairobi police cell along with a dozen other people.…
VATICAN CITY, Holy See– The Vatican said Saturday it was “saddened by certain scenes” at the Olympics opening ceremony that gave “offense” to Christians, as controversy rages over a segment some say lampooned Jesus’ Last Supper. The July…
PARIS, France – China’s Huang Yaqiong won Olympic badminton mixed doubles gold on Friday before she was surprised by a marriage proposal from her off-court partner. Huang and Zheng Siwei claimed the sport’s first gold of the…
PARIS, France – The concept had been derided as overly ambitious and the location criticised as a prime security risk. But after years of preparation, France could Saturday breathe a sigh of relief — it had pulled…
Pekín, China– China will send 11 swimmers implicated in a major doping scandal to next month’s Paris Olympics, after the country named its squad for the Games. Twenty-three Chinese swimmers tested positive for the heart drug trimetazidine (TMZ)…
Deadly floods in the Horn of Africa. Summer wildfires that ravaged Canadian forests. Global temperature records unprecedented in the history of humanity. Environmental activists say there’s no doubt anymore that urgent collective action is needed to preserve…
BEIJING, CHINA — China on Thursday called for a “sustained humanitarian truce” in the Israel-Hamas conflict in a position paper released by its foreign ministry. “Parties to the conflict should… immediately realize a durable and sustained humanitarian…
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