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May 26, 2022
The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 7.2 earthquake has shaken southern Peru, though there are no immediate reports of damage or injury
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May 26, 2022
A court in Spain has dismissed Colombian singer Shakira's appeal in a tax fraud case
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May 26, 2022
The Palestinian Authority says its investigation into the shooting death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh proves that she was deliberately killed by Israeli forces
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May 26, 2022
China has reiterated its opposition to new sanctions against North Korea
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May 26, 2022
Congo military officials said that the M23 rebels closed in on a major military camp in the country's east after days of fighting the army
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May 26, 2022
British prosecutors have charged actor Kevin Spacey with four counts of sexual assault against three men
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May 26, 2022
The United States is urging Yemen's Houthi rebels to release all U.S. Embassy local staffers they had detained, following the death of one of them after seven months in captivity
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May 26, 2022
A hand grenade thrown at a crowded fish market in Yemen's southern port city of Aden has killed at least five civilians
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May 26, 2022
The Uvalde, Tex., elementary school shooting is the latest in a U.S. epidemic, as gun violence in many other developed countries is far less common.
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May 26, 2022
Forty-two former presidents and prime ministers added their signatures to a growing list that calls for the creation of an International Anti-Corruption Court.
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May 26, 2022
Italian police say the body of a 21-year-old American man was pulled from the Tiber River on Thursday
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May 26, 2022
Swedish and Finnish delegations are in Turkey to discuss Ankara's concerns about their NATO membership bids.
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May 26, 2022
Climate activists are reflecting on discussions during this week's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
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May 26, 2022
Australia's foreign minister is in Fiji as her Chinese counterpart travels the region offering a 10-nation trade and security deal.
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May 26, 2022
The flames tore through Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh Hospital in the city of Tivaouane, northeast of the capital, Dakar.
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May 26, 2022
Enforcers from the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice are expanding their reach into all aspects of Afghan society.
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May 26, 2022
In aviation, a lack of crucial parts could ground much of the country's fleet and make flying a game of "Russian roulette."
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May 26, 2022
In a matter of months, since the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has outstripped Iran as the country under the most sanctions.
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May 26, 2022
"When people say, 'Didn't we learn anything from Jurassic Park?' — well, it's very different bringing back a velociraptor to a thylacine," lab leader Andrew Pask said.
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May 26, 2022
The militaries of Australia, New Zealand and Norway have also tested electric bikes for reconnaissance and patrol.
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May 26, 2022
Residents in Shanghai have been counting down the days until June 1 when authorities are expected to lift lockdown measures that have left citizens confined at home and in quarantine centers for almost two months. Shanghai-based photographer, Raul Ariano, documented the experiences of the city's residents by photographing friends and acquaintances remotely through video calls.
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May 26, 2022
Some diplomatic observers say the lack of U.N. action to halt the war in Ukraine illustrates flaws embedded decades ago.
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May 26, 2022
Li Keqiang issued the stark warning as the economy stalled under pressure from multiplying covid restrictions and shrinking demand.
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May 26, 2022
Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim said he received an invitation to the White House soon after President Biden met with the parents of journalist Austin Tice.
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May 26, 2022
Russia could soon make a direct assault on Severodonetsk, one of the largest eastern cities still under Ukrainian control.
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May 26, 2022
Ukraine's successful resolution raises the possibility that Russia could be suspended from the assembly if attacks on hospitals and clinics continue.
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May 25, 2022
A German court has sentenced a woman who posed as a doctor to life in prison for causing the deaths of several people she treated
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May 25, 2022
Authorities in Bulgaria said Wednesday that the bodies of seven people were discovered outside a cemetery near the capital
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May 25, 2022
The United Nations says that in Afghanistan, 1.1 million children under the age of 5 will likely face the most severe form of malnutrition this year as increasing numbers of hungry, wasting-away children flow into hospital wards
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May 25, 2022
The head of a mission that assists hostages says a Lebanese security chief has met U.S. officials in Washington as part of mediation between Washington and Damascus for the release of an American journalist missing in Syria
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May 25, 2022
South Korea says one of the three weapons North Korea test-launched into the sea was a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile
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May 25, 2022
The head of the U.N. refugee agency has urged the international community not to forget more than 1 million Rohingya refugees who are living in sprawling camps in Bangladesh after fleeing from neighboring Myanmar
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May 25, 2022
Yemen's warring sides are meeting for talks on reopening roads in Taiz and other provinces as the United Nations pushes to extend a two-month cease-fire ahead of a looming deadline
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May 25, 2022
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been criminally charged by authorities who accuse him of inciting violence with his efforts to stage street protests against rising commodity prices that the government largely blames on the war in Ukraine
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May 25, 2022
Turkey's foreign minister has visited Israel as part of ongoing efforts to improve ties between the two countries
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May 25, 2022
For Davos regulars, more accustomed to talking about global interconnectedness than geopolitical ruptures, it's a strange new world.
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May 25, 2022
A 17th century mosque in Hinduism's holiest city has emerged as the latest flash point in the escalating struggle between the country's Hindu nationalists and its Muslim minority.
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May 25, 2022
The eastern city of Severodonetsk remains under Ukrainian control but is being pummeled by nearby Russian forces that are "destroying the city completely," a local official said.
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May 25, 2022
Pakistani police have fired tear gas and scuffled with stone-throwing supporters of ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan ahead of their planned marches toward central Islamabad
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May 25, 2022
The test came hours after the president concluded a trip reinforcing U.S. alliances with South Korea and Japan.
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May 25, 2022
The Uvalde, Tex., elementary school shooting is the latest in a U.S. epidemic, as gun violence in many other developed countries is far less common.
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May 25, 2022
L.A. Dodgers co-owner Todd Boehly and a consortium received a license to acquire the club for $5.3 billion. Abramovich will not receive the proceeds.
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May 25, 2022
The much-awaited report from civil servant Sue Gray offers details of "excessive alcohol consumption."
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May 25, 2022
Swedish and Finnish delegations are in Turkey to discuss Ankara's concerns about their NATO membership bids.
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May 25, 2022
Forty-two former presidents and prime ministers have added their signatures to a growing list that calls for the creation of an International Anti-Corruption Court.
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May 24, 2022
South Africa's neutral stance on Russia's war in Ukraine was a major topic of conversation as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz meets Tuesday with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, to end his three-nation tour of Africa
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May 24, 2022
Pope Francis is offering his condolences and solidarity to the people of Gaylord, Michigan following a deadly tornado
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May 24, 2022
Police in Rio de Janeiro have raided the Vila Cruzeiro favela in an operation that set off a fierce firefight
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May 24, 2022
Mexican experts say the number of monarch butterflies that arrived this year to winter in mountaintop forests rose by 35% compared to the previous season
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May 24, 2022
A Danish Jehovah's Witness has been released after spending five years in a Russian prison under Moscow's crackdown on the religious group, the organization says
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May 24, 2022
South Korea says North Korea has fired three ballistic missiles toward the sea
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May 24, 2022
The Cannes Film Festival, yet again, belongs to Léa Seydoux
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May 24, 2022
Organizers of a camp for Ukrainian refugees who had traveled to Mexico say they will soon close it and discouraged Ukrainians still in Europe from traveling to Mexico as they try to enter the United States
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May 24, 2022
The U.N. Security Council is calling on Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to "swiftly reverse" their policies and practices restricting the human rights of women and girls
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May 24, 2022
After a reprieve of months, confirmed cases of COVID-19 are surging in the southern tip of South America
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May 24, 2022
Facing a spiraling economic crisis, Taliban officials hope the move will encourage new international investment.
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May 24, 2022
The Biden administration appears to be returning to the Obama-era "strategic patience" of not engaging in North Korea.
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May 24, 2022
Airbnb was a minor player in the Chinese market. Tujia, a larger competitor, has reportedly offered to take over its listings.
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May 24, 2022
Front-runner Gustavo Petro could be Colombia's first leftist president. Death threats have led his campaign to take unusual security measures.
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May 24, 2022
Having beaten back Russian troops, the border guards of Ukraine's Chernihiv region are watching warily as their adversaries again amass troops and equipment.
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May 24, 2022
Amnesty International's report found that 579 people were put to death in 2021, a 20 percent increase, compared with the year before.
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May 24, 2022
The church memorials were the last organized marking on Chinese territory of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
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May 24, 2022
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Kissinger urged the West to not seek an embarrassing defeat for Russia in Ukraine, warning it could worsen Europe's long-term stability.
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May 24, 2022
Doctors and infectious-disease experts across the continent have worked to contain monkeypox outbreaks for years. Few seemed to care, or even notice, until people in the West started getting sick.
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May 24, 2022
The eastern city of Severodonetsk remains under Ukrainian control but is being pummeled by nearby Russian forces that are "destroying the city completely," a local official said.
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May 24, 2022
Health authorities are urging careful assessment before expanding the use of smallpox vaccines to protect against monkeypox.
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May 24, 2022
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen accused Russia of "trying to trample the aspirations of an entire nation with tanks."
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May 24, 2022
Russia and China flew strategic bombers over the Sea of Japan and East China Sea while President Biden was in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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May 24, 2022
"We are in a deep grief today," Khpolwak Sapai, deputy director of Afghanistan's ToloNews, said in a Facebook post Sunday, the day after the Taliban's edict went into effect.
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May 24, 2022
The European Union gives Putin a public relations victory while continuing to fund his war effort in Ukraine.
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May 24, 2022
Michelle Bachelet's trip comes as "Xinjiang Police Files" on the internment of Uyghurs and other minorities in China become public.
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May 24, 2022
President Biden regularly makes unscripted, pithy remarks that violate the rules of diplomacy and get a lot of attention. His staff always walks them back — but should they?
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May 24, 2022
China's crackdown on the Muslim ethnic minority in Xinjiang, explained.
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May 24, 2022
Newly declassified U.S. intelligence shows that a Russian naval blockade has halted maritime trade at Ukrainian ports, in what world leaders call a deliberate attack on the global food supply chain.
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May 24, 2022
Today on Post Reports, what to know about monkeypox and how prepared the United States is for future pandemics. Plus, in New Orleans, the return of a beloved Mardi Gras tradition.
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May 17, 2022
Sweden signed an application to join NATO, and Finland's Parliament voted to apply. Explosions rocked the Lviv region.
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May 17, 2022
The move, which will allow Chevron to begin negotiating with the government of Nicolás Maduro, is aimed at promoting talks between the Venezuelan government and the U.S.-backed opposition.
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May 17, 2022
The United States has already committed nearly $4 billion in military aid to Ukraine since the war began.
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May 17, 2022
Moscow had issued an ultimatum to Ukrainians remaining in the besieged port city: Surrender by midday and your life will be spared. Here's what to know about Mariupol and the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding there.
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May 17, 2022
With no end to the war in sight, these maps explain how terrain, geography and logistics are shaping the battle for key cities.
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May 17, 2022
Hundreds of Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant fighters were evacuated to Russian-held territory after Kyiv struck a cease-fire agreement with Moscow.
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May 17, 2022
More than 450 cases described as 'extremely unusual because these are healthy children,' mostly under 5.
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May 17, 2022
Lebanon is in the midst of a crippling economic crisis, and more than a dozen independent candidates won seats.
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May 17, 2022
The Biden administration is lifting restrictions on Cuba, including some aspects of travel to the island, caps on remittances and the issuance of at least 20,000 immigrant visas annually.
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May 17, 2022
Even as Russia secured a victory in Mariupol, it suffered another setback on the global stage, as Sweden ended 200 years of military nonalignment to join Finland in applying for NATO membership.
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May 17, 2022
To right-wingers in the United States, steeped in anti-liberal grievance, Hungary offers a glimpse of culture war victory and a template for action at home.
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May 17, 2022
Sweden signed the country's application to join NATO. Putin downplayed the threat. Explosions in Lviv.
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May 17, 2022
Natural disasters have pushed concern in Australia about climate change to an all-time high. Yet as the country heads toward a federal election, neither major party is talking much about it.
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May 17, 2022
Hundreds of Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant fighters were evacuated to Russian-held territory after Kyiv struck a cease-fire agreement with Moscow.
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May 16, 2022
The Biden administration is lifting restrictions on Cuba, including some aspects of travel to the island, caps on remittances and the issuance of at least 20,000 immigrant visas annually.
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May 16, 2022
Putin said Finland and Sweden's entry into NATO did not represent an imminent danger to Russia, but he warned the same would not be true if NATO staged a military buildup in the two countries.
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May 16, 2022
From vodka to soccer, retailers and international sporting bodies have announced boycotts of Russian goods and benched Russian teams in a symbolic global movement designed to show solidarity with Ukraine.
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May 16, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to downplay the development, saying he had "no problems" with the alliance's possible expansion.
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May 16, 2022
The U.S. Senate is expected to advance a $40 billion aid package for Ukraine.
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May 16, 2022
The tour is to "highlight an emphasis on learning from Indigenous peoples." Other royals traveling this year have faced demands for apologies and reparations.
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May 16, 2022
A Greek helicopter pilot has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his British-Greek wife in their home on the outskirts of Athens and trying to mislead police for weeks by claiming she was killed by intruders in a brutal house invasion
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May 16, 2022
Iraqi merchants say they have no choice but adapt as the latest in an unrelenting series of intense sandstorms swept their country
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May 16, 2022
The international rights group Human Rights Watch says abuses carried out by jihadis in Burkina Faso are multiplying at alarming rates
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May 16, 2022
Mali's ruling junta says it will withdraw from the regional counterterrorism force known as the G5 Sahel
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May 16, 2022
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga on Monday chose a former justice minister as his running mate in elections set for August, making her the first-ever female face on a major presidential ticket in the East African country
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