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ANNECORDON/iStock(WASHINGTON) — Kim Jong Un’s half-brother, who was reportedly assassinated by the North Korean regime, was a CIA source who met with the U.S. spy agency’s officials on several occasions, according to a new book. […]

Hailshadow/iStock(LONDON) — A measles epidemic has been declared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country struggling to contain the world’s second-largest and second-deadliest Ebola outbreak. The Congolese health ministry said it has recorded […]

MarkMalleson/iStock(OTTAWA, Ontario) — Canada is making strides to help protect marine life. The country’s House of Commons passed a bill Monday that makes it illegal to keep a whale, dolphin or porpoise in captivity. Bill […]

Anthony Kwan/Getty Images(LONDON) — More protesters are expected to take to the streets Tuesday after hundreds of thousands of people rallied in Hong Kong on Sunday to protest the government’s proposal to change an extradition […]

Christies(CAIRO) — Egyptian authorities are demanding that the London arm of auction house Christie’s halt an auction of a stone sculpture of King Tutankhamun scheduled for next month, Egypt’s foreign ministry said. A 3,000-year-old bust […]

Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — A tree that President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron planted at the White House last year — a symbol of the two nations’ long friendship […]

tvirbickis/iStock(LONDON) — The body responsible for investing the funds of the Church of England has said it is willing to invest in the medicinal cannabis industry for the first time, saying it holds the drug […]

Kenneth Canning/iStock(PRETORIA, South Africa) — A pride of 14 lions that were reported to have escaped from South Africa’s Kruger National Park actually weren’t from the park at all, officials said. Residents of Phalaborwa, in […]

Chesnot/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Egypt has the right to demand the repatriation of a stone sculpture of King Tutankhamun before it goes up for auction at Christie’s in London next month, according to the country’s […]

Randy Brooke/WireImage(NEW YORK) —  A search was on in the Mediterranean for a cruise ship passenger who went overboard while on a voyage from the South of France to Spain, officials said Sunday. Norwegian Cruise […]