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News Articles: World

Hanan Zarura, a master craftswoman of Palestinian tatreez embroidery, with a jacket she's been making at her workshop in the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila, in Beirut, Lebanon.

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  • Middle East

In Lebanon, these Palestinian refugees sew designs from a homeland they've never seen

In a workshop in an infamous refugee camp in Beirut, Palestinian women practice an ancient art form — as a livelihood, and also as therapy. The designs come from a homeland most have never seen.

January 18, 2025
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
First responders work the scene following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday.

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  • Europe

Russian attack kills 4 people in Kyiv

Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital with a barrage of drones and missiles Saturday, leaving at least four people dead, while industrial sites in Russia were set ablaze by Ukrainian strikes.

January 18, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A Pakistani Mohammad Akram shows a picture of his son Abu Bakar,  one of the victims of a migrant boat that capsized in West Africa's Atlantic coastline,  on his cell phone at his home, in Jura village, in the Lalamusa district in Pakistan, on Friday.

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  • World

More than 40 Pakistani migrants feared drowned off African coast

Pakistan said that the boat, carrying 80 passengers including some Pakistanis, had set off from Mauritania on their way to the Canary Islands.

January 18, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Rescue workers look on as a cage is lifted from an abandoned gold shaft in Stilfontein on January 16, 2025.

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  • Africa

A South African horror story: illegal mining stand-off draws to an end

In South Africa a months long stand-off between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.

January 17, 2025
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By:
  • Kate Bartlett
An aerial view of beachfront homes that burned in the Palisades Fire in Malibu, Calif. on Jan. 15, 2025. Pro-Kremlin social media accounts have spread baseless claims that Ukrainian military officials owned mansions that were destroyed in the fires that swept the Los Angeles region.

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  • World

Russia tried to use the LA wildfires to spread anti-Ukraine propaganda

Pro-Kremlin social media accounts and outlets have been spreading a baseless narrative that mansions belonging to Ukrainian officials burned down in Los Angeles.

January 17, 2025
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By:
  • Huo Jingnan
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping spoke by phone on Friday.

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  • World

Trump and China's Xi speak by phone as Supreme Court issues TikTok ruling

The Trump-Xi phone call came hours before the Supreme Court on Friday upheld a U.S. law that effectively bans TikTok starting Sunday.

January 17, 2025
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By:
  • Vincent Ni
A view of damage at a residential building following an Israeli airstrike on Jabalia after Israel and Gaza reached a ceasefire deal, in the north of Gaza City, on Thursday.

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  • Middle East

Israel's security cabinet approves Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal

Israel's security cabinet has voted to approve a ceasefire deal to end the fighting in Gaza. Full cabinet approval is expected later today.

January 17, 2025
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By:
  • James Hider and
  • Jerome Socolovsky
Police scuffle with demonstrators who block a road during a protest demanding a ceasefire deal and the immediate release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Saturday.

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  • News

Next steps for Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal. And, polar vortex to envelop the U.S.

The Israeli security cabinet meeting to vote on a ceasefire deal with Hamas, which was delayed yesterday, is set for today. And, frigid temperatures are expected to envelop much of the U.S. next week.

January 17, 2025
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By:
  • Brittney Melton
A woman carries a child as she shops at a New Year bazaar set up for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year, in Beijing on Jan. 13.

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  • World

China's population falls for a third straight year, posing challenges for its economy

Rising costs of living are causing young people to put off or rule out marriage and child birth while pursuing higher education and careers.

January 17, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
The Australian Open's YouTube livestream shows the players as animated avatars, though the action is real.

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  • Sports

Why Australian Open live streams look like Wii tennis — and what it means for sports

The Australian Open's animated tennis livestreams are making a splash. U.S. leagues have used similar technology to put Simpsons on the football field and superheroes on ice skates.

January 17, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, right, with his wife Bushra Bibi, speaks to the media before signing documents to submit surety bond over his bails in different cases, at an office of Lahore High Court in Lahore, Pakistan, on July 17, 2023.

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  • World

Court sentences former Pakistani leader Imran Khan to 14 years in prison

Khan has denied wrongdoing and insisted since his arrest in 2023 that all the charges against him are a plot by rivals to keep him from returning to office.

January 17, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Fragments of a meteorite that hit a home on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in July 2024.

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  • Space

Canadian man's home security camera captures the sight and sound of a meteorite strike

Joe Velaidum's home security camera captured the instant a meteorite smashed against his home's brick walkway. The video is thought to be the first recorded sound of a meteorite's direct impact.

January 16, 2025
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By:
  • Chandelis Duster
Palestinians celebrate in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's announcement of hostage deal between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday.

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  • Analysis

How the Gaza war has remade the Middle East

What began as a battle between Israel and Hamas morphed into a much wider regional conflict that has reshaped much of the Middle East.

January 16, 2025
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By:
  • Greg Myre
Police scuffle with demonstrators who block a road during a protest demanding a ceasefire deal and the immediate release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Saturday.

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  • Middle East

Netanyahu delays ceasefire vote, claiming Hamas created a 'last minute crisis'

The deal was set to be ratified by Israeli Cabinet on Thursday. But Netanyahu says, without specifying, that Hamas has gone back on several parts of the ceasefire agreement at the last minute.

January 16, 2025
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By:
  • Willem Marx
People walk past stalls selling goods amid the rubble of buildings destroyed during previous Israeli strikes, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 15, 2025.

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  • News

Why Netanyahu delayed an Israel-Hamas ceasefire vote. And, LA's wildfire prevention

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delayed a ceasefire vote today, alleging Hamas reneged on parts of the agreement. And, examining Los Angeles' wildfire prevention methods for the future.

January 16, 2025
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By:
  • Brittney Melton
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