As the U.S.-created Board of Peace pushes ahead with plans to rebuild Gaza, it has said there’s no place for the U.N. body that for decades has provided support to displaced Palestinians. But the agency’s last chief says that behind the scenes, board members and others have been more open to wor...
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When Poland stopped registering asylum applications from migrants entering from Belarus in March 2025, authorities presented it as a temporary emergency measure to counter what they saw as a push by Russia and its ally Belarus to destabilize the country by directing tens of thous...
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Tarek al-Salami, aged 7, sat in a diaper, looking frail. Normally, the malnutrition and diarrhea that weakened his tiny frame would have been treated within a few days, but nothing is normal in Yemen anymore. Tarek's father carried him on foot from the southwestern city of Mokha ...
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Episode: 1633 In which a Cambridge don doubts his own calculus teaching. Today, a mathematician misses the point.
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Powerful Hurricane Polo sent bands of heavy rain across Mexico's Pacific coast Thursday as a growing Tropical Storm Nolo approached Hawaii with the potential for catastrophic flooding....
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Asian shares were mixed Friday following another bond sell-off that brought U.S. Treasury yields to their highest in years. U.S. futures edged higher. Japan’s Nikkei 225 gained 1.3% to 66,364.20. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng slipped 1.1% to 24,495.35. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 fell 0.4% t...
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Pope Leo XIV told reporters they were welcome to cover him Friday, as he responded to the Trump administration’s attempt to bar U.S. media from the White House by affirming the role of journalists to cover public figures. Leo spoke to reporters as he travelled to France at the st...
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President Donald Trump is taking Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit the National Archives on Friday, showing off the sacred texts of U.S. democracy to the leader of the world’s most powerful communist country to cap off a three-day state visit criticized for being heavy on pom...
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Once the Atlanta Falcons finally reached the red zone, they kept coming back again and again. Bijan Robinson rushed for 194 yards and two touchdowns as the Falcons capitalized on the return of quarterback Michael Penix Jr. and trounced the punchless Green Bay Packers 35-14 on Thu...
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Mayor Whitmire said Houston will review some of the hundreds of claims filed by people whose property was damaged during law enforcement operations, following an ABC13 report....
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told world leaders Thursday that attacking Iran "was one of the easiest decisions I've ever had to make."
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A 14-year-old girl had to be flown to a Houston hospital Wednesday following what her family describes as an unprovoked attack by fellow students at Livingston High School....
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Olena Kalynychenko was looking forward to sharing the chrysanthemum tea she had bought in China with her partner. “She said, ‘When I come back home, we will drink the tea made from Chinese flowers,’” said Oles Visich, Kalynychenko’s partner. He has now been waiting for news about...
