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City utility workers clean up after a Russian drone attack on April 4, 2025 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The Russian army carried out around six strikes in the Novobavarskyi district. Nearly 30 residential high-rise buildings and dozens of cars were damaged. More than 30 people were injured, and 5 were killed. (Photo by Hnat Holyk/Gwara Media/Global […]

(Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images) (SEOUL) — South Korea’s Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol, whose short-lived declaration of martial law late last year plunged the country into political chaos, in a decision that removes the suspended leader from office. The verdict was read in court shortly after 11 a.m. Friday […]

Janos Kummer/Getty Images (HUNGARY) — Hungary announced it will withdraw from the International Criminal Court, the world’s first and only permanent tribunal for war crimes and genocide, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Budapest for a four-day visit. The ICC issued an arrest warrant last November for Netanyahu and former Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant […]

(Photo by Jiang Chao/Xinhua via Getty Images) (LONDON) — The death toll from last week’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar rose to 3,085 people as of Thursday morning, according to an update released by the country’s military government. Another 4,715 people have been injured and 341 others remain missing, the junta said. The epicenter of […]

Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images (LONDON) — Israel’s renewed military operation in the Gaza Strip “is expanding to crush and cleanse the area of ​​terrorists and terrorist infrastructure and seize large areas that will be annexed to the security zones of the state of Israel,” Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement on Wednesday. […]

U.S. Army (PABRADĖ, Lithuania) — The fourth U.S. Army soldier who went missing during a scheduled training exercise near Pabradė, Lithuania, last week was found dead on Tuesday, according to the Army. “The Soldier was found after a search by hundreds of rescue workers from the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Lithuanian Armed Forces, Polish Armed Forces, Estonian […]

Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua via Getty Images (MANDALAY CITY, MYANMAR) — A 63-year-old woman was pulled alive from under the rubble Tuesday about 91 hours after Myanmar was struck by a devastating, 7.7 magnitude earthquake, the Myanmar Fire Services Department said on social media. At least 2,719 people have been confirmed dead in the aftermath of […]

A 444 million-year-old specimen of a primitive marine anthropod was fossilized “inside-out,” with its muscles and guts preseserved in ancient sediment, scientists say. (University of Leicester) (LEICESTER, UK) — Paleontologists are marveling over the unique fossil of a marine species that predated the dinosaurs, according to new research. The fossil, dated to about 444 million […]

Hnat Holyk/Gwara Media/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images (LONDON) — Russia launched no long-range strike drones into Ukraine on Monday night and into Tuesday morning, Ukraine’s air force said, marking the first night since December 2024 in which zero such craft targeted the country. Ukraine’s air force reported two missiles launched into the southern Zaporizhzhia […]

This undated photo posted by the New York Yankees on the social media site X shows 14-year-old Miller Gardner, the son of former Yankees players Brett Gardner, who died, Mar. 21, 2025, from a sudden illness while on a family vacation. (@Yankees/X) (MANUEL ANTONIO, COSTA RICA) — High levels of carbon monoxide were detected in […]