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Ritesh Shukla/Getty Images (ALLAHABAD, INDIA) —  At least 17 people were killed and over 30 have been injured in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s biggest gatherings that occurs every 12 years, authorities said. The Maha Kumbh Mela takes place every dozen years in the Indian city of Prayagraj, about […]

Ritesh Shukla/Getty Images (ALLAHABAD, INDIA) — At least seven people were killed and around 10 injured in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s biggest gatherings that occurs every 12 years, authorities said. The Maha Kumbh Mela takes place every dozen years in the Indian city of Prayagraj, about 90 miles […]

Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — Many residents of northern Gaza and southern Lebanon are expected to return to their homes in the coming days and weeks, with most of the fighting in both areas paused under Israeli ceasefire agreements with Hamas and Hezbollah. Under Israel’s multi-phased deal with Hamas, some hostages held in the […]

Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Scientists and global leaders revealed on Tuesday that the “Doomsday Clock” has been reset to the closest humanity has ever come to self-annihilation. For the first time in three years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the metaphorical clock up one second to 89 seconds before midnight, the theoretical […]

Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images (GAZA and LONDON) — Emotional scenes continued to play out in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as families and friends reunited for the first time in over 15 months, after the Israeli military allowed Gazans who had been trapped in the south of the strip to return to their homes in […]

Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As President Donald Trump makes a very public effort to acquire Greenland, one former Danish official said Trump’s attempts are nothing new — but he shouldn’t expect it to be easy. Interest in buying Greenland has “popped up from time to time in American politics,” Tom Høyem, Denmark’s minister to […]

JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images (TOKYO) — The oval-shaped pit suddenly formed on a busy road in Yashio, Japan, taking down a truck and trapping the driver inside. Emergency crews battled unstable ground and debris. The crater is about 30 feet wide and 16 feet deep. It formed in a well-traveled area of Saitama Prefecture, […]

Zhang Yudong/Xinhua via Getty Images (LONDON) — An elephant trampled a tourist on safari to death in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, officials said. In what park officials are calling a “tragic accident,” the tourist was charged and trampled by an elephant near Crocodile River at Malelane Gate which “regrettably resulted in the loss of […]

Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — Many residents of northern Gaza and southern Lebanon are expected to return to their homes in the coming days and weeks, with most of the fighting in both areas paused under Israeli ceasefire agreements with Hamas and Hezbollah. Under Israel’s multi-phased deal with Hamas, some hostages held in the […]

Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images (SEOUL) — The final four minutes of flight recordings before a Jeju Air flight crashed into an embankment at the end of a runway in South Korea are missing, a preliminary report into the investigation of the crash that left 179 people dead said. Recordings from both the cockpit voice recorder and […]