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Joakim Leroy/iStock(PARIS) — Transit workers have been striking for 13 straight days in France over the government’s plan to reform the country’s pension system. The protests started on Dec. 5. The government wants to meld […]

LaylaBird/iStock(NEW YORK) — A new report published Tuesday by the World Economic Forum ranks 153 countries on gender equality. The U.S.? No. 53. Nordic nations led the way with Iceland topping the list. Norway, Finland […]

Andrius Kaziliunas/iStock(LONDON) — Jewelry believed to be worth tens of millions of dollars has been stolen from the house of British billionaire heiress Tamara Ecclestone in London after she left the home for the Christmas […]

ABC News(LONDON) — The Labour Party may not be the only big loser in last week’s U.K. election. After U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s landslide election victory on Thursday, the BBC is facing losing significant […]

bedo/iStock(SEOUL, South Korea) — United States special envoy for North Korea Stephen Biegun says “it’s not yet too late” to proceed with nuclear negotiations. He urged Pyongyang to come out and talk while he is […]

dan_prat/iStock(LONDON) — Another person has died from their injuries in the deadly volcanic eruption on New Zealand’s White Island, bringing the confirmed fatalities to 16, authorities announced Sunday. The bodies of two people are still […]

cenkertekin/iStock(BEIRUT) — Outraged by a resolution passed in the U.S. Senate labelling Ottoman-era ethnic cleansing of Armenians during WWI as an official genocide, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is threatening to shut down two bases […]

Andrius Kaziliunas/iStock(LONDON) — Jewelry believed to be worth tens of millions of dollars has been stolen from the house of British billionaire heiress Tamara Eccleston in London after she left the home for the Christmas […]

dan_prat/iStock(WHAKATANE, New Zealand) — Another person has died from their injuries in the deadly volcanic eruption on New Zealand’s White Island, bringing the confirmed fatalities to 15, police said Saturday. The bodies of two people […]

DeAgostini/Getty Images(ROME) — The “Portrait of a Lady,” a painting by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt now valued at $66 million, was stolen from a gallery in northern Italy more than 20 years ago. But it […]