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News Articles: World

Travelers pass through Newark Liberty International Airport's international terminal after President Trump's new travel ban took effect on Monday.

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  • Politics

Trump's travel ban is now in effect. Here's what to know

The ban, which revives a controversial measure from Trump's first term, took effect Monday morning. Here's what to know about who's affected, who's exempt and how foreign leaders are responding.

June 09, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Climate activist Greta Thunberg, center, waits to board the Madleen boat, before setting sail for Gaza along with activists of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, departing from the Sicilian port of Catania, Italy, Sunday, June 1, 2025.

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  • Middle East

Israeli forces seize Gaza-bound boat and detain Greta Thunberg and other activists

Israeli forces said they took command of the vessel at sea, detaining Swedish climate activist Thunberg and the rest of the crew.

June 09, 2025
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  • Jane Arraf
Forensic experts work at the crime scene where Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot and wounded in the Modelia neighborhood in Bogota on June 7, 2025.

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  • Latin America

Colombian Presidential hopeful shot at Bogotá rally

A Colombian Presidential hopeful in critical condition after being shot during a campaign rally in Bogotá on Saturday. The assassination attempt is having a chilling effect in Colombia where security has been backsliding recently.

June 08, 2025
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  • Alfie Pannell
Palestinians carry bags containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, June 8, 2025.

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  • World

Palestinians say at least five people killed by Israeli gunfire near Gaza aid centers

Palestinian health officials and witnesses say at least five people were killed and others were wounded by Israeli fire as they headed to two aid distribution points in the Gaza Strip.

June 08, 2025
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  • The Associated Press

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  • World

How a network of women in Latin America transformed safe, self-managed abortions

An underground network of feminists and activists developed new models of care for abortion that eventually helped legalize abortion in countries across Latin America.

June 08, 2025
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  • Marta Martínez and
  • Liana Simstrom
Reinaldo Caro unloads his catch from the shoreline of the Almirante Montt Gulf, Chilean Patagonia.

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  • World

Chile's Indigenous fishermen say the salmon industry threatens their way of life

Salmon farming is big business in Chile, and the U.S. is one of its largest markets. Yet the fish are not native, and fishermen say salmon are damaging ecosystems and an Indigenous way of life.

June 08, 2025
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  • John Bartlett
Ukrainian troops prepare to launch a drone in eastern Ukraine on April 30. Throughout the war, Ukraine has carried out innovative drone attacks never seen before in combat.

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  • World

The many ways Ukraine carries out unprecedented drone attacks

With one surprise attack after another, Ukraine keeps inventing new ways to wage war with drones. In turn, Russia is building a massive drone army of its own.

June 07, 2025
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  • Greg Myre
Coco Gauff celebrates after winning her women's singles final match against Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris on Saturday.

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  • Sports

Coco Gauff wins the French Open to claim her 2nd Grand Slam title

The 21-year-old American star battled back over three sets to defeat the world's top-ranked player, Aryna Sabalenka. Gauff is the first American to win at Roland-Garros since Serena Williams in 2015.

June 07, 2025
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  • Becky Sullivan
This undated photo provided by the Hostage's Family Forum shows Nattapong Pinta, with his wife and son.

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  • Middle East

Israel says it has retrieved the body of a Thai hostage in Gaza

Israel said it had retrieved the body of Nattapong Pinta, who was abducted during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that sparked the war. He had come to Israel to work in agriculture.

June 07, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Kenyan journalist and human rights activist Boniface Mwangi (R) and Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire (L) during a joint press conference in Nairobi on June 2, 2025 following their three-day detention and alleged torture by Tanzanian authorities.

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  • Africa

Torture and treason trials: what's happening in Tanzania?

Tanzania's government is facing growing accusations of repression after prominent human rights defenders say they were beaten and sexually assaulted while in custody.

June 07, 2025
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  • Kate Bartlett
Erin Patterson, pictured at her home in Leongatha, Victoria, Australia, in August 2023. Three people died of death cap poisoning after eating a meal she had cooked the previous month.

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  • World

4 takeaways from Erin Patterson's testimony at her toxic mushroom triple murder trial

Patterson is accused of putting death cap mushrooms in a meal she served her estranged husband's relatives in July 2023, killing three. She took the stand in Week 6 of the trial gripping Australia.

June 07, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
Different types of baklava are on display and being packaged at Gulluoglu, a shop in Gaziantep, Turkey. The city has many shops dedicated to the sweet pastry.

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  • World

A baklava crawl in the Turkish city that's obsessed with the pastry

Here's how the Turkish city of Gaziantep became synonymous with baklava, the sweet pastry made of layers of phyllo dough, filled with nuts and soaked in syrup or honey.

June 07, 2025
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  • Fatma Tanis and
  • Claire Harbage
Myung-Whun Chung conducts the Radio France Philharmonic orchestra during a rehearsal at the Maison de la Radio before its inauguration on November 14, 2014, in Paris.

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  • World

South Korean maestro Chung will be the first Asian to head Italy's famed La Scala

Myung-Whun Chung will be one of the first non-Italians to take the post of music director at Milan's famous opera house.

June 06, 2025
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  • Anthony Kuhn
Explosion is seen after Russian air strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday.

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  • Europe

Russia launches massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine, killing 3 in Kyiv

President Trump said the Russian leader Vladimir Putin had warned that he would retaliate for a covert Ukrainian attack in Russia last weekend that destroyed dozens of Russian bombers.

June 06, 2025
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  • Joanna Kakissis
President Donald Trump, right, meets Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday.

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  • Europe

Trump says it may be better to let Ukraine, Russia 'fight for a while'

In an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, President Trump likened the war between Russia and Ukraine to a fight between two children who hate each other.

June 06, 2025
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