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Tiny Meteorite May Have Caused Leak From Soyuz Capsule

Tiny Meteorite May Have Caused Leak From Soyuz Capsule

Russian and NASA engineers were assessing a coolant leak on Thursday from a Soyuz crew capsule docked with the International...

ICC Confirms Upholds 25-year Sentence for Ugandan LRA Commander

ICC Confirms Upholds 25-year Sentence for Ugandan LRA Commander

The International Criminal Court on Thursday confirmed the convictions of Dominic Ongwen, a former Ugandan child soldier who rose to...

European Parliament Suspends Work With Qatar in Response to Criminal Probe

European Parliament Suspends Work With Qatar in Response to Criminal Probe

The European Parliament voted Thursday to suspend all work on legislation linked to Qatar after allegations of corruption involving a...

Slovak Parliament Dumps Center-Right Cabinet, Early Election an Option

Slovak Parliament Dumps Center-Right Cabinet, Early Election an Option

Slovakia’s minority center-right government lost a no-confidence vote Thursday, raising political instability and possibly bringing an early election sometime in...

Russia Warns US on Sending Patriot Missiles to Ukraine

Russia Warns US on Sending Patriot Missiles to Ukraine

Russia’s foreign ministry warned the United States on Thursday that if it ships sophisticated Patriot air defense missiles to Ukraine,...

US Targets Russian Oligarch in Latest Round of Sanctions

US Targets Russian Oligarch in Latest Round of Sanctions

The United States imposed new economic sanctions on Russian financial interests Thursday, targeting one of the country’s richest businessmen, Vladimir...

Boris Becker Freed from UK prison, Expected to be Deported

Boris Becker Freed from UK prison, Expected to be Deported

German tennis star Boris Becker, 55, has been freed from a British prison, the government said on Thursday, meaning he...

British Nurses Stage First Ever National Walkout Amid Pay Dispute

British Nurses Stage First Ever National Walkout Amid Pay Dispute

National Health Service nurses in Britain staged a strike on Thursday, their first ever national walkout, as a bitter dispute...

Iran Sentences Belgian Aid Worker to 28 Years in Prison

Iran Sentences Belgian Aid Worker to 28 Years in Prison

Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele has been sentenced to 28 years in prison in Iran for a “fabricated series of...

British Nurses Set to Begin First-Ever Strike as Pay Dispute Deepens

British Nurses Set to Begin First-Ever Strike as Pay Dispute Deepens

National Health Service nurses in Britain will strike on Thursday in their first-ever national walkout as a bitter dispute with...

UK Airports to Relax Aircraft Liquid Rules Beginning in Mid-2024

UK Airports to Relax Aircraft Liquid Rules Beginning in Mid-2024

The U.K. government announced on Thursday that it will significantly relax limits on taking liquids in carry-on luggage at airports...

Hacker Claims Breach of FBI’s Critical-Infrastructure Forum 

Hacker Claims Breach of FBI’s Critical-Infrastructure Forum 

A hacker who reportedly posed as the chief executive of a financial institution claims to have obtained access to the...

Mbappe, France Advance to World Cup Final, Blank Morocco 2-0

Mbappe, France Advance to World Cup Final, Blank Morocco 2-0

France and Kylian Mbappe are headed back to the World Cup final for a much anticipated matchup with Lionel Messi...

Ukraine’s ‘Brave People’ Receive 2022 Sakharov Prize

Ukraine’s ‘Brave People’ Receive 2022 Sakharov Prize

Representatives of Ukraine have received the European Parliament’s 2022 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on behalf of “the brave...

Turkish Court Sentences Istanbul Mayor, Slaps Political Ban

Turkish Court Sentences Istanbul Mayor, Slaps Political Ban

A court in Turkey sentenced the mayor of Istanbul, the country’s most populous city, to two years and seven months...

4 Confirmed Dead after Boat Capsizes in English Channel

4 Confirmed Dead after Boat Capsizes in English Channel

Helicopters and lifeboats swooped to the English Channel off the coast of Kent in southern England to rescue a small...

Ethiopians File Lawsuit Against Meta Over Hate Speech in War

Ethiopians File Lawsuit Against Meta Over Hate Speech in War

Two Ethiopians have filed a lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, over hate speech they say was allowed and even...

Pope Urges ‘Humble’ Christmas to Help Ukrainians 

Pope Urges ‘Humble’ Christmas to Help Ukrainians 

Pope Francis called Wednesday for people to restrain spending ahead of the upcoming Christmas holiday and use the money saved...

US Officials: US Preparing to Send Patriot Defense System to Ukraine

US Officials: US Preparing to Send Patriot Defense System to Ukraine

The United States is preparing to send the Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine to shoot down incoming Russian missiles,...

Fraud Charges Unsealed in Arrest of Crypto Magnate Bankman-Fried

Fraud Charges Unsealed in Arrest of Crypto Magnate Bankman-Fried

Law enforcement officials and financial services regulators have filed a raft of criminal and civil charges against Sam Bankman-Fried, the...

US Prosecutors Charge 7 With Running Procurement Network for Russian Military

US Prosecutors Charge 7 With Running Procurement Network for Russian Military

U.S. prosecutors announced criminal charges on Tuesday against five Russians and two Americans, disrupting what they described as a network...

UN: Half of Ukraine’s Energy Infrastructure Destroyed by Russian Attacks

UN: Half of Ukraine’s Energy Infrastructure Destroyed by Russian Attacks

The United Nations reports Russia has destroyed 50% of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, putting millions of people at risk of sickness...