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News Articles: World

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vice President Harris at the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 17, 2024.

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  • Politics

How Harris will distinguish her foreign policy from Biden — and Trump

By necessity, Vice President Harris has worked in lockstep with President Biden on his foreign policy. What she would do in the White House if she wins on Nov. 5 will be in focus in Tuesday's debate.

September 07, 2024
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  • Asma Khalid
Ukrainians discuss the tactics of working in small groups at the military training called "Test Week" for civilians provided by one of the most successful units of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 7. Its aim is to give civilians a sense of what they will experience if they are conscripted or decide to enlist in military service.

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  • Europe

Ukraine's military trains civilians in 'Test Week' to give a sense of war with Russia

Ukraine needs more soldiers as its troops defend Ukrainian territory and carry out an offensive inside Russia. An elite Ukrainian military unit offers civilians a one-week tryout as soldiers.

September 07, 2024
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  • Polina Lytvynova
The debris at the site where an airplane crashed with 62 people on board, in Vinhedo, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, early on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024.

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  • World

Cockpit audio indicates issues with de-icing in deadly Brazil plane crash

The pilots of a Brazilian passenger plane that crashed last month, killing all 62 people aboard, reported failure in the system to remove ice from the plane, according to a preliminary report.

September 06, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Sérgio Mendes speaks at the event "Reel To Reel: Sérgio Mendes — In The Key Of Joy" at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on March 11, 2020.

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  • Obituaries

Brazilian music legend Sérgio Mendes dies at 83

The Grammy-winning musician, whose hit “Mas Que Nada” helped make him a global ambassador for Brazilian music, died after months battling the effects of long COVID.

September 06, 2024
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  • Julia Carneiro
A Palestinian family mourns the death of their daughter, who was killed in an Israeli attack as she was heading to play while wearing her roller skates, in Gaza City, Gaza, on Sept. 4.

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  • Middle East

Killed in her pink roller skates, a Palestinian girl’s photo in Gaza goes viral

The photo of a girl in Gaza killed by an Israeli airstrike while wearing pink roller skates goes viral and draws attention to the plight of children nearly a year into the war.

September 06, 2024
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By:
  • Aya Batrawy
Competition and Markets Authority, a U.K. regulator, launched an investigation into how Ticketmaster priced its tickets for the Oasis reunion tour next summer and whether the company was transparent about it ahead of time.

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  • Business

U.K. is investigating Ticketmaster after Oasis tour prices surprised fans

British regulators are looking into how Ticketmaster uses "dynamic pricing" to hike prices in line with demand. A similar controversy prompted a federal lawsuit against the company in the U.S.

September 06, 2024
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  • Emma Bowman
Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram, is pictured onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 on Sept. 21, 2015, in San Francisco.

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  • Technology

Telegram founder breaks silence, calling charges 'misguided'

The tech billionaire breaks his silence more than a week after being indicted by French authorities. He faces wide-ranging charges including complicity to distribute child abuse images and to traffic drugs.

September 06, 2024
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  • Julia Redpath
Activists wearing eye masks hold posters reading "Repeated deepfake sex crimes, the state is an accomplice too," during a protest against sexually abusive deepfakes in Seoul, South Korea, on Aug. 30.

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  • Asia

South Korea investigates Telegram over alleged sexual deepfakes

South Korea is investigating sexually abusive deepfakes allegedly shared on the messaging platform Telegram. Officials say the company is complying and has removed some content.

September 06, 2024
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  • Se Eun Gong
Spanish couples take their newly adopted Chinese children for a walk in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, March 7, 2007.

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  • World

China ends most international adoptions, leaving many children, families in limbo

China's Foreign Ministry says the only exception will be for families who are adopting the children or stepchildren of blood relatives in China.

September 06, 2024
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  • Juliana Kim
Gisèle Pélicot (left) arrives in the Avignon court house, in Avignon, southern France, on Thursday.

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  • Europe

A French woman whose husband is accused of inviting men to rape her testifies in court

Gisèle Pélicot detailed the horror of discovering that her former spouse had systematically filmed the dozens of suspected rapes — storing thousands of images that police investigators later found.

September 06, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Husam Abukhedeir, a Palestinian neurosurgeon, left his native Gaza for the United Arab Emirates last November because he felt that conditions caused by the war had stripped him of his power as a physician — and endangered his family. Nearly 9 months have passed, and Abukhedeir does not see an end in sight to the suffering

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  • Global Health

Whatever happened to ... the Gaza neurosurgeon who faced a wrenching decision

Husam Abukhedeir, the chief neurosurgeon at Al-Shifa Hospital, helped the injured, watched many died, including his sister, then knew what he had to do to protect his family. How is he faring today?

September 06, 2024
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  • Farah Yousry
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  • News

Trump staffers in cemetery scuffle named. And, dad of alleged school shooter arrested

NPR confirmed the names of the two Trump staffers involved in the Arlington cemetery scuffle. And, the father of the Georgia school shooting suspect arrested.

September 06, 2024
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  • Brittney Melton
Distressed parents and relatives stand near a burned-out dormitory, following a fire at the Hillside Endarasha Primary in Nyeri, Kenya Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. (AP Photo)

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  • Africa

A fire at a school dormitory in Kenya kills at least 17 students

There are fears that the death toll may rise, police said, as President William Ruto called the news “devastating.”

September 06, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang, winners of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1957. Both were affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study at the time of the award.

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  • Perspective

T.D. Lee changed science in China and my life. This is what I owe to him

Chinese particle physicist Yangyang Cheng reflects on the legacy of the late Nobel laureate T.D. Lee — how his ideas changed her life, and the limit to his engagement with Beijing.

September 05, 2024
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  • Yangyang Cheng
Maori Queen Nga Wai Hono i te Po was anointed on Thursday, a week after the death of her father, who had been king for 18 years.

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  • World

A 27-year-old just became queen of New Zealand's Maori

Tribal leaders selected Nga Wai Hono i te Po as the new monarch after the death of her father last week. The second-ever Maori queen takes on the largely ceremonial role at a complicated moment.

September 05, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
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