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Italy to Screen All China Arrivals for COVID

Italy to Screen All China Arrivals for COVID

Italy is making coronavirus tests for visitors from China mandatory following an explosion in cases in China, the health minister...

Ukraine Says Russian Missiles Target Kherson

Ukraine Says Russian Missiles Target Kherson

Ukraine said Russia attacks Wednesday included missiles fired at civilian targets in the southern city of Kherson. The General Staff...

Pope Francis Says Former Pope Benedict ‘Very Sick’

Pope Francis Says Former Pope Benedict ‘Very Sick’

  Pope Francis said Wednesday that former Pope Benedict is “very sick.”   Speaking during his general audience, the pope asked for...

Americans Weigh Pros and Cons as Musk Alters Twitter

Americans Weigh Pros and Cons as Musk Alters Twitter

Marie Rodriguez of Bountiful, Utah, began using social media when she enlisted in the U.S. Navy. At first, she saw...

Investigation Opens After Iranian Found Dead in French River

Investigation Opens After Iranian Found Dead in French River

French authorities were Tuesday investigating as suicide the drowning of an Iranian man in the southeastern city of Lyon; he...

Weather Extremes Becoming ‘New Normal,’ Warns UK’s National Trust

Weather Extremes Becoming ‘New Normal,’ Warns UK’s National Trust

Britain’s National Trust on Wednesday said nature and wildlife at the charity’s sites had been harmed by extreme weather in...

Library Offers Refuge, Recovery in War-scarred Ukraine Town

Library Offers Refuge, Recovery in War-scarred Ukraine Town

Hundreds of laptop-toting professionals and students line up outside the public library in the Ukrainian town of Irpin, desperate to...

US House Bans TikTok on Official Devices

US House Bans TikTok on Official Devices

The popular Chinese video app TikTok has been banned from all U.S. House of Representatives-managed devices, according to the House’s...

World Mourned the Passing of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022

World Mourned the Passing of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II died in September after seven decades on the throne. Her passing was mourned around the world...

Russia Places Bellingcat Journalist on Wanted List

Russia Places Bellingcat Journalist on Wanted List

Russia on Monday placed a senior journalist with the Bellingcat investigative website on a wanted list, following his extensive reporting...

Tensions Rise in Northern Kosovo as Local Serbs Block Roads; Serbia Puts Army on Alert

Tensions Rise in Northern Kosovo as Local Serbs Block Roads; Serbia Puts Army on Alert

Protesting Serbs in the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo erected new barricades on Tuesday, hours after Serbia...

Iran Slams Britain After Protest ‘Network’ Arrested

Iran Slams Britain After Protest ‘Network’ Arrested

Iran on Monday blasted Britain’s “non-constructive role” a day after the Islamic republic announced the arrest of a U.K.-linked “network”...

Kurds Hold March of Mourning After Paris Shooting Kills 3

Kurds Hold March of Mourning After Paris Shooting Kills 3

Members of France’s Kurdish community and others held a silent march Monday to honor three people killed in a shooting...

Ukraine FM Aims for February Peace Summit

Ukraine FM Aims for February Peace Summit

Ukraine’s foreign minister said Monday that his government is aiming to have a peace summit by the end of February,...

NATO Probing Shooting Incident in Tense Northern Kosovo

NATO Probing Shooting Incident in Tense Northern Kosovo

NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo said Monday they were investigating a shooting incident in a tense northern region, urging calm as...

Kyiv’s Botanical Garden Struggles to Save Its Tropical Plants Amid Russian Attacks

Kyiv’s Botanical Garden Struggles to Save Its Tropical Plants Amid Russian Attacks

In the lush greenhouses of Kyiv’s National Botanical Garden, staff are struggling to save a decades-old collection of tropical plants...

Police: No One Believed Missing in Austrian Avalanche

Police: No One Believed Missing in Austrian Avalanche

Police said Monday they believe no one is missing after a Christmas Day avalanche that swept across a ski trail...

Dutch King Says Slavery Apology Start of ‘Long Journey’

Dutch King Says Slavery Apology Start of ‘Long Journey’

Dutch King Willem-Alexander welcomed the government’s apology for the Netherlands’ role in 250 years of slavery in his Christmas address...

Belarus Says Russia-Deployed Iskander Missile Systems Ready for Use

Belarus Says Russia-Deployed Iskander Missile Systems Ready for Use

The Iskander tactical missile systems and the S-400 air defense systems that Russia has deployed to Belarus are fully prepared...

North Macedonia Takes Emergency Antipollution Steps

North Macedonia Takes Emergency Antipollution Steps

North Macedonia’s government said it’s imposing emergency measures in the country’s capital, Skopje, and three other cities in order to...

Iran Says Western Claims Show ‘Effectiveness’ of Its Drones

Iran Says Western Claims Show ‘Effectiveness’ of Its Drones

Iran’s top general has said that Western claims its drones are being used by Russia against Ukraine show the ‘effectiveness’...

Demonstration for Belgian Held in Iran Calls for His Release

Demonstration for Belgian Held in Iran Calls for His Release

Supporters of a Belgian aid worker being held in Iran staged a Christmas Day protest in Brussels to demand his...