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News Articles: World

Katie-Jo Page sits in a room she has prepared for Mykyta, a Ukrainian boy her family was in the process of adopting, in Snohomish, Wash., on Oct 2.

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  • World

These families were adopting Ukrainian orphans. Now they have to wait out Russia's war

Ukraine was the leading country Americans adopted from, but it halted adoptions this year after Russia's invasion. Now many families and children are in limbo.

October 15, 2022
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By:
  • Ashley Westerman
Journalists raise their hands for questions as Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss holds a news conference in the Downing Street Briefing Room in central London, Friday. Truss let go her finance chief Kwasi Kwarteng and reversed course on sweeping tax cuts.

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  • Europe

The U.K. prime minister fires her finance chief and nixes tax cuts to calm markets

In a move to calm financial markets and her own Conservative Party, Prime Minister Liz Truss canceled planned tax cuts for corporations and replaced Kwasi Kwarteng as treasury head with Jeremy Hunt.

October 15, 2022
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By:
  • Willem Marx
Cattle graze near a fire in Amazonas, Brazil, on Sept. 22. A new report analyzed years of data on wildlife populations across the world and found a downward trend in the Earth's biodiversity.

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  • Environment

Animal populations shrank an average of 69% over the last half-century, a report says

A new report from the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London analyzed years of data on wildlife populations across the world and found a downward trend in the Earth's biodiversity.

October 15, 2022
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
A photo released by the New Zealand Department of Conservation on April 5, 2018, shows beached pilot whales in Haast, a city on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island.

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  • Animals

Recent whale strandings highlight the mystery that still baffles marine scientists

A recent stranding on remote New Zealand islands left nearly 500 pilot whales dead. Scientists still don't know for sure why the events, also known as beachings, occur, but they have some ideas.

October 15, 2022
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
A view of the entrance of the mine in Amasra, in the Black Sea coastal province of Bartin, Turkey, on Friday.

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  • Europe

A coal mine explosion in Turkey has killed at least 40 people, officials say

Eleven people were injured and hospitalized, while 58 others managed to get out of the mine on their own or were rescued unharmed, officials said. The status of one remaining miner was unclear.

October 15, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Pablo Neruda, then serving as Chile's ambassador to France, talks with reporters in Paris after being named winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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  • World

He's known as Chile's greatest poet, but feminists say Pablo Neruda is canceled

"He's been canceled," a Chilean activist says of 20th century poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda. Five decades after his death, feminists are denouncing him as a male chauvinist and sexual predator.

October 15, 2022
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By:
  • John Otis
People look at a large mosaic that dates back to the Roman era in the town of Rastan, Syria, on Wednesday.

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  • Arts & Life

A rare Roman-era mosaic is uncovered during the excavation of an old building in Syria

Syria uncovered a large intact mosaic that dates back to the Roman era, with officials describing it as the most important archaeological discovery since the country's conflict began 11 years ago.

October 15, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A poll worker sanitizes ballot marking machines at an early voting location in Inglewood, Calif., on Oct. 29, 2020. The Los Angeles County district attorney alleges that the CEO of Konnech, which makes scheduling software for poll workers, improperly gave Chinese contractors access to sensitive employee data.

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  • Investigations

Election software CEO is charged with allegedly giving Chinese contractors data access

The Los Angeles County district attorney alleges that the CEO of Konnech, which makes scheduling software for poll workers, improperly gave Chinese contractors access to sensitive employee data.

October 14, 2022
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach and
  • Miles Parks
A handout photo issued by the group Just Stop Oil shows two protesters who threw soup at Vincent Van Gogh's famous 1888 work <em>Sunflowers</em> at the National Gallery in London on Friday.

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  • Arts & Life

Climate protesters throw soup on Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' painting in London

Members of a group that wants to halt new oil and gas projects threw soup over the masterpiece in London's National Gallery, but caused no discernible damage to the glass-covered painting.

October 14, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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  • Technology

Google is now distributing Truth Social, Trump's Twitter alternative

It is an about-face for the tech giant, which had blocked Trump's social media app from Google Play, its app store, over content that can incite violence.

October 14, 2022
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
GPB  NPR

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  • Europe

U.K. prime minister fires finance chief amid economic turmoil

The U.K. finance minister has been fired by Prime Minister Liz Truss, following financial and political turmoil over the announcement of new economic policies and massive tax cuts.

October 14, 2022
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By:
  • Frank Langfitt and
  • A Martínez
An injured Tigray People's Liberation Front fighter who was shot in the cheek recovers after surgery at the Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital in Mekele, the capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region. It's the only place in Tigray currently conducting surgery. Elsewhere, "they are stopped because there is no supply, there is no electricity, and there is no fuel," says one Tigray doctor.

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  • Global Health

'Where is humanity?' ask the helpless doctors of Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region

Civil war has blockaded the country's northern region and decimated a hospital system that serves nearly 7 million people. Without basic supplies, power and medicine, thousands are needlessly dying.

October 14, 2022
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Andriy and Iryna Grycenko (center) mourn the death of their 11-year-old daughter, Anastasiya, at her funeral in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 20. Anastasiya was killed on Sept. 17 when a Russian S-300 missile obliterated her home in Chuhuiv. At right is Iryna's sister, Anastasiya's aunt, Rimma Leiba.

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  • World

Ukrainians grieve for an 11-year-old girl killed by a Russian missile

A neighbor recalls the girl saying in her final moments, "Why did this happen to me? I didn't do anything bad to them."

October 14, 2022
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By:
  • Jason Beaubien
Black smoke billows from a fire on the Kerch bridge that links Crimea to Russia after an explosion on Saturday.

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  • World

After the Crimean bridge attack, there are plenty of theories but few real answers

Theories abound about who is responsible for the attack and how they did it. On Wednesday, Russia arrested eight men alleged to have set off a truck bomb. Ukraine says Russia planned the attack.

October 14, 2022
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By:
  • Julian Hayda
A screenshot of the GreenTeam's electric car on the track where it broke the record for fastest acceleration of an electric vehicle.

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  • Technology

German students break the world record for fastest accelerating electric car — again

The electric racing car, built by 20 University of Stuttgart students known as the GreenTeam, can go from 0 to about 62 miles per hour in just 1.461 seconds.

October 14, 2022
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  • Halisia Hubbard
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