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August 24, 2023 | 3 MIN READ

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine on Thursday marked its second Independence Day since Russia’s full-scale invasion, with officials vowing to keep up their fight to drive out the Kremlin&rsq...

August 24, 2023 | 2 MIN READ

PANAMA CITY — The government of Panama said Thursday it will launch a new campaign to stem the flow of migrants through the dangerous, jungle-clad Darien Gap, after crossings hit 300,000...

August 24, 2023 | 4 MIN READ

UNITED NATIONS — The United States on Thursday announced sanctions against 11 Russians and two re-education facilities reportedly involved in the forced transfer of thousands of Ukrainia...

August 24, 2023 | 3 MIN READ

NEW DELHI — A lunar rover slid down a ramp from the lander of India’s spacecraft within hours of its historic touch-down near the moon’s south pole, Indian space officials sa...

August 24, 2023 | 7 MIN READ

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A preliminary U.S. intelligence assessment concluded that an intentional explosion caused the plane crash presumed to have killed a mercenary leader who was eulogized...

August 22, 2023 | 4 MIN READ

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian saboteurs coordinated by Kyiv’s military intelligence services carried out a pair of recent drone attacks that hit parked bomber aircraft at air bases dee...

August 22, 2023 | 5 MIN READ

JOHANNESBURG — Russian President Vladimir Putin took multiple shots at the West on the opening day of an economic summit in South Africa, using a prerecorded speech that was aired on gia...

August 22, 2023 | 2 MIN READ

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un severely rebuked his premier and other senior officials over what he called their irresponsible response to recent flooding of farmla...

August 22, 2023 | 3 MIN READ

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canadian firefighters have begun easing evacuation orders in a scenic region of British Columbia, with the prospect of better weather raising hopes for the...

August 22, 2023 | 4 MIN READ

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Authorities in the Dominican Republic shut schools and government offices Tuesday as Tropical Storm Franklin took aim at the island of Hispaniola that it shares w...

August 21, 2023 | 5 MIN READ

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canadian firefighters prevented wildfires from destroying more structures in a scenic region of British Columbia and stepped up their defense of a territori...

August 21, 2023 | 3 MIN READ

TOKYO — Japan will start releasing treated and diluted radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean as early as Thursday — a controversial...

August 21, 2023 | 2 MIN READ

LONDON — The head of Russia’s space agency said Monday that the Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the moon after its engines failed to shut down correctly, and he blamed the country&...

August 21, 2023 | 2 MIN READ

LONDON — Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin on Monday published his first recruitment video for the Wagner Group since organizing a short-lived mutiny against defense officials i...

August 21, 2023 | 4 MIN READ

TOKYO — North Korea told Japan on Tuesday it plans to launch a satellite in the coming days, possibly a second try to put a military spy satellite into orbit three months after its first...

August 18, 2023 | 5 MIN READ

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Residents heeded warnings to evacuate the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories as a large wildfire burned just miles outside the city of 20,000 F...