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Mexican military accused of hindering probe of 43 missing students

UPDATED: Fri., March 31, 2023

International investigators seeking to wrap up an exhaustive investigation into Mexico's biggest human-rights scandal - the disappearance of 43 students - said Friday that the military is obstructing their efforts at a crucial moment.

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U.S. slams Russia for reporter arrest, tells Americans to leave

UPDATED: Fri., March 31, 2023

The United States on Thursday strongly condemned Moscow's decision to detain a Wall Street Journal reporter, saying Russia is not a safe country for Americans and those there should leave immediately.

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New Zealand glaciers shrinking at ‘confronting’ level

UPDATED: Fri., March 31, 2023

New Zealand's glaciers are retreating at a confronting pace, with scientists warning current trends will result in very little snow and ice covering the nation's Southern Alps.

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The stuffed animals comforting Ukraine’s children in wartime

UPDATED: Fri., March 31, 2023

After Russian forces rampaged through this suburb of Kyiv last year and Anna, now 10, hid in a neighbor's basement, she sought solace in her stuffed fox, Foxy, and cat, Vatka.

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Olympian Oscar Pistorius denied parole 10 years after murdering girlfriend

UPDATED: Fri., March 31, 2023

South African Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee athlete who captured world attention by running in the 2012 Olympics on blade-like prosthetic legs, was denied parole Friday from his prison sentence for killing his girlfriend.

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Here’s how other democracies have prosecuted political leaders

UPDATED: Fri., March 31, 2023

In a first for the United States, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced Thursday that Donald Trump has been indicted. No American president or former president has ever before been charged with a crime.

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Taiwan, like Ukraine, is fighting for democracy, Tsai says in New York

UPDATED: Fri., March 31, 2023

Taiwan's core values - freedom, democracy, human rights and rule of law - are in peril in the face of increasing authoritarianism, the democratic island's president, Tsai Ing-wen, said on Thursday, drawing direct parallels between Taiwan and Ukraine.

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Ukrainians in a hidden command post see Bakhmut going their way

UPDATED: Thu., March 30, 2023

Hidden in the bowels of an unmarked building, set well back from the fighting, a command center directing operations in the city of Bakhmut was high-tech and humming. Soldiers monitored video screens with live feeds of destroyed buildings and a cratered battlefield.

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Vatican distances itself from colonial-era ‘doctrine of discovery’

UPDATED: Thu., March 30, 2023

The Vatican has distanced itself from a colonial-era doctrine used to justify crimes against indigenous peoples, including slavery, saying it is not "part of the teachings of the Catholic Church," according to a statement released on Thursday.

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‘Phantom cat shaver’ is targeting pets in Britain, and no one knows why

UPDATED: Thu., March 30, 2023

Cat owners in England are facing a "weird" and "unsettling" problem: Someone, somewhere, is targeting their pets and randomly shaving off parts of their fur.

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Bolsonaro heading home to Brazil - and an uncertain future

UPDATED: Thu., March 30, 2023

Former president Jair Bolsonaro flew home Thursday morning to Brazil, a country deeply divided by his governance and policies, where he faces an array of investigations that could ultimately end his political career and even put him in prison.

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King Charles III applauds German and British unity in defending Ukraine

UPDATED: Thu., March 30, 2023

Britain's King Charles III addressed Germany's parliament on Thursday and lauded the two countries' cooperation in helping Ukraine confront Russia's invasion.

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Russia detains Wall Street Journal reporter on spy charges

UPDATED: Thu., March 30, 2023

Russia’s Federal Security Service said it has detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen, in the city of Yekaterinburg on spying allegations.

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Pope Francis to stay in hospital with respiratory infection

UPDATED: Wed., March 29, 2023

ROME — Pope Francis is suffering from a respiratory infection and will remain in the hospital for several days to receive treatment, a spokesman for the Vatican said on Wednesday evening. The 86-year-old pontiff was taken to Rome's Gemelli University Hospital on Wednesday afternoon, where tests revealed the finding, said the spokesman, Matteo Bruni. He added that the infection is not from the ...

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A collection of rare Shakespeare folios is on sale for $10.5 million

UPDATED: Wed., March 29, 2023

A collection of five very rare editions of William Shakespeare's works will be offered as a group at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (April 27-30) with an overall asking price of $10.5 million.

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A climate vulnerable nation takes the world to court over emissions

UPDATED: Wed., March 29, 2023

Vanuatu, one of the most vulnerable countries to global warming, is taking matters into its own hands. After the world failed to boost targets for cutting emissions at last year's climate summit, the Volcanic atoll in the South Pacific is turning to international law to make sure countries live up to their commitments to curb greenhouse gases.

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How Ukraine’s battered steel industry galvanized its war effort

UPDATED: Wed., March 29, 2023

Inside the gloom of the vast Zaporizhstal steel plant, a towering blast furnace wheezes like a giant black lung, inhaling chunks of iron ore, thermal coal and limestone, blending them at temperatures reaching several thousand degrees with oxygen-enriched air, and then exhaling vapor and molten metal.

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Taiwan’s president heads to U.S., bracing for China’s retaliation

UPDATED: Wed., March 29, 2023

As President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan heads to the United States, she is laying out a diplomatic agenda calibrated to strengthen ties with the West and assert her island’s autonomy, while trying to avoid moves that might ignite a crisis with China.

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Mark Hamill, as Luke Skywalker, voices air raid alerts in Ukraine

UPDATED: Thu., March 30, 2023

Mark Hamill, best known as Luke Skywalker from the Star Wars movies, has lent his famous voice to a popular Ukrainian air raid alert app, joining a growing list of celebrities to support the embattled nation.

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Amid ruins and explosions, some Ukrainians refuse to leave home

UPDATED: Wed., March 29, 2023

When the shelling starts, the people who remain in the devastation of Avdiivka hardly flinch. In truth, the shelling barely stops. In this ravaged town in eastern Ukraine, the thud of Russian artillery reverberates every minute or two.

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