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Rockets fired from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Saturday landed in the Mediterranean Sea off central Israel, the Israeli military said.It was not immediately clear whether the rockets were meant to hit Israel, but Gaza-based militant groups often test-fire missiles toward the sea. There were no rep...
Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu was remembered at his funeral Saturday for his Nobel Peace Prize-earning role in ending South Africa’s apartheid regime of racial oppression and for championing the rights of LGBTQ people.“When we were in the dark, he brought light,” Archbi...
Hundreds of Colorado residents who had expected to ring in 2022 in their homes are instead starting off the New Year trying to salvage what remains of them after a wind-whipped wildfire tore through the Denver suburbs.Families forced to flee the flames with little warning returned to their neighborh...
In a sprawling settlement of mud brick huts in western Afghanistan housing people displaced by drought and war, a woman is fighting to save her daughter.Aziz Gul’s husband sold the 10-year-old girl into marriage without telling his wife, taking a down-payment so he could feed his family of fi...
New coronavirus infections soared again in Australia on Friday to a record of more than 32,000, just days after surpassing 10,000 for the first time.Experts say the explosion is being driven by the highly contagious omicron variant and a recent relaxation of restrictions in Sydney and other areas.Mo...
Mike Guanella and his family were relaxing at their Colorado home and looking forward to celebrating a belated family Christmas later Thursday when reports of a nearby grass fire quickly turned into a concerning pre-evacuation notice and then within minutes into an order to leave immediately.The Gua...
South Africans of all walks of life are paying their respects to Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Anglican archbishop whose plain pine casket is on view Friday in St. George’s Anglican Cathedral in Cape Town.“He was a moral giant. He was a moral and spiritual giant loved and r...
California became the first state to record more than 5 million known coronavirus infections, according to the state dashboard Tuesday, which was delayed by the holiday weekend.The grim milestone, as reported by the California Department of Public Health, wasn’t entirely unexpected in a state ...
A court in Moscow on Wednesday ruled to shut down another prominent human rights organization amid a sweeping crackdown on Russian rights groups, independent media and opposition supporters.The decision to shut down the Memorial Human Rights Center by the Moscow City Court comes a day after Russia&r...
Much of Asia has largely managed to keep omicron at bay even as the variant rages in other parts of the world, but the region that is home to most of the globe’s population is bracing for what may be an inevitable surge.Strict quarantine rules for arrivals and widespread mask wearing have help...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday he is not opposed to a “good” nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, but voiced skepticism that such an outcome would emerge from the current negotiations.Bennett spoke a day after negotiators from Iran and five world powers resume...
North Korea opened a key political conference Monday to review past projects and discuss new policies amid the pandemic and a diplomatic deadlock with the United States.The official Korean Central News Agency said Tuesday that leader Kim Jong Un presided over a plenary meeting of the Central Committ...
Iran insisted on Monday that the United States and its allies promise to allow Tehran to export its crude as negotiations on restoring the tattered nuclear deal were to resume in Vienna.The remarks by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian signal that Iran is pressing its position ahead of...
Bells will ring in at midday Monday from St. George’s Anglican Cathedral in Cape Town to honor Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, a day after his death at age 90.The bells at the cathedral, where Tutu urged South Africans of all races to work together against apartheid, will toll for 10 minutes...
Two members of the international humanitarian group Save the Children were missing Saturday after Myanmar government troops rounded up villagers, some believed to be women and children, fatally shot more than 30 and burned the bodies, according to a witness and other reports.Purported photos of the ...
People strolling across Moscow’s snowy Red Square on the evening of Dec. 25, 1991 were surprised to witness one of the 20th century’s most pivotal moments — the Soviet red flag over the Kremlin pulled down and replaced with the Russian Federation’s tricolor.Just minutes earli...
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden brought some Christmas Eve cheer to hospitalised children who aren’t well enough to go home for the holidays.It’s longstanding tradition for first ladies to visit Children’s National Hospital at Christmastime, but Joe Biden’s visi...
Japan’s Cabinet approved a record 5.4 trillion yen ($47 billion) defense budget for fiscal 2022 on Friday that includes funding for research and development of a new fighter jet and other “game-changing” weapons as Japan bolsters its defense capabilities in response to China’...
Staff absences for Covid-19 tripled this month in London’s hospitals, and nearly 10% of the city’s firefighters called out sick.In New York, about 2,700 police officers were absent earlier this week — twice the number who are ill on an average day. And on Cape Cod in Massachusetts,...
At least three major airlines have reported canceling dozens of flights as illnesses largely tied to the omicron variant of Covid-19 take a toll on flight crew numbers during the busy holiday travel season.Germany-based Lufthansa said Friday that it was canceling a dozen long-haul transatlantic flig...
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