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The United Nations is summoning an unusual "witness" to testify to the dangers of burning fossil fuels that stoke global warming: a dinosaur.In a video released on social media ahead of this year's UN climate change summit, a computer-generated dinosaur bursts into the UN's famous ...
The German parliament will not extend the “epidemic situation of national scope” when it expires next month, but will keep in place certain measures to check the spread of the coronavirus, lawmakers said on Wednesday.Leading members of the country’s parliament, or Bundestag, said t...
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Southeast Asian leaders began their annual summit without Myanmar on Tuesday amid a diplomatic standoff over the exclusion of the leader of the military-ruled nation from the group’s meetings.Myanmar skipped the summit in protest after the Association of Southeast Asian Nations shut out its to...
Pro-democracy protesters blocked roads in Sudan’s capital with makeshift barricades and burning tires Tuesday, a day after the military seized power in a swift coup widely denounced by the international community.The takeover came after weeks of mounting tensions between military and civilian ...
Gas stations across Iran on Tuesday suffered through a widespread outage of a government system governing fuel subsidies, stopping sales in an incident that one semiofficial news agency referred to as a cyberattack.An Iranian state television account online-shared images of long lines of cars waitin...
Former South Korean President Roh Tae-woo, a major player in a 1979 coup who later became president in a landmark democratic election before ending his tumultuous political career in prison, died on Tuesday. He was 88.The Seoul National University Hospital said Roh died while being treated for an il...
Israel is sending an envoy to Washington amid a deepening rift with the Biden administration over six outlawed Palestinian rights groups, a Foreign Ministry official said Tuesday.Israel last week designated the prominent Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist organizations, sparking internatio...
Southeast Asian leaders are meeting this week for their annual summit where Myanmar’s top general, whose forces seized power in February and shattered one of Asia’s most phenomenal democratic transitions, has been shut out for refusing to take steps to end the deadly violence.Myanmar def...
Sudan’s military seized power Monday, dissolving the transitional government hours after troops arrested the acting prime minister and other officials. Thousands of people flooded into the streets to protest the coup that threatens the country’s shaky progress toward democracy.The takeov...
A Lebanese judge has charged 68 people in this month’s deadly clash in Beirut that left seven people dead and dozens wounded, the state news agency reported Monday.The clash south of Beirut on Oct. 14 was the worst fighting in the capital in years and broke out during a Hezbollah-organized pro...
In a decision with potential ramifications across European museums, France is displaying 26 looted colonial-era artifacts for one last time before returning them home to Benin.The wooden anthropomorphic statues, royal thrones and sacred altars were pilfered by the French army in the 19th century fro...
A senior US diplomat on Sunday urged North Korea to refrain from additional missile tests and resume nuclear diplomacy, days after the North fired off its first underwater-launched ballistic missile in two years.Sung Kim, the US envoy on North Korea, spoke after meeting with South Korean officials t...
Colombian security forces have captured the country’s most wanted drug trafficker, a rural warlord who stayed on the run for more than a decade by corrupting state officials and aligning himself with combatants on the left and right.President Iván Duque likened the arrest Saturday of Da...
An explosion at an eatery in Uganda’s capital was an apparent terrorist act, President Yoweri Museveni said on Sunday. Museveni said three people entered the eatery in a suburb of Kampala on Saturday evening and left a plastic bag whose contents later exploded. He provided no more details...
In a pair of Cape Town warehouses converted into a maze of airlocked sterile rooms, young scientists are assembling and calibrating the equipment needed to reverse engineer a coronavirus vaccine that has yet to reach South Africa and most of the world’s poorest people.The energy in the gleamin...
Gunmen have attacked a prison in southwest Nigeria, freeing dozens of inmates, an official told The Associated Press Saturday.The third jailbreak in Africa's most populous country this year raises more concerns about how safe detention facilities are in the West African nation where authorities ...
Russia is reporting a record high number of coronavirus infections and Covid-19 deaths as the country approaches a week of nonworking days aimed at stemming the sharp surge in cases.The national coronavirus task force said Saturday that 1,075 people had died from the virus in the past day and that 3...
Some 2,000 Polish coal miners on Friday staged a noisy protest in Luxembourg against a decision by the European Union’s top court to shut down a major brown coal mine in Poland and to fine the country for flouting the ruling.Clad in yellow vests emblazoned with “HANDS OFF TUROW,” b...
New Zealand’s government on Friday set an ambitious target of fully vaccinating 90% of all eligible people to end coronavirus lockdowns.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had been under pressure to provide a pathway to freedom for people living in Auckland, who have been in lockdown for more than t...
An explosion and fire at a gunpowder factory in Russia on Friday killed 16 people, officials said.The Emergency Situations Ministry said the explosion hit the Elastik factory in the Ryazan region, about 270 kilometers (about 167 miles) southeast of Moscow.Read More: Taliban pledge to step up securit...
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