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RafalBelzowski/iStock(VAN, Turkey) — A major rescue operation is under way after two avalanches hit the same location in eastern Turkey, trapping a team of rescue workers dispatched to deal with the initial avalanche. Rescue workers […]

BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) — At least 10 people aboard a cruise ship moored in Japan have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, officials said. Since arriving at the Japanese port of Yokohama, the […]

mashabuba/iStock(WASHINGTON) — A Russian court denied a motion to release American Paul Whelan Tuesday, meaning the veteran U.S. Marine will be detained for at least another month after spending more than 400 days in prison. […]

Zachary Dobson/iStock(MEXICO CITY) — A murder mystery is unfolding in one of the world’s most mysterious wildlife spots after two nature activists who worked at Mexico’s El Rosario monarch butterfly sanctuary were discovered slain just […]

Jeremy Selwyn – WPA Pool/Getty Images(LONDON) — Gasoline, diesel and hybrid cars will be relics by 2035 if U.K. lawmakers get their way. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, speaking at a launch event for a United […]

MiroNovak/iStock(TEHRAN, Iran) — The death sentence of an Iranian national accused of being a CIA spy has been approved by the supreme court of Iran, the spokesman of the Islamic Republic judiciary said during a […]

omersukrugoksu/iStock(NEW YORK) — Wisconsin resident Samuel Roth has been on edge for the past two weeks. His wife and children have been stranded in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of a newly discovered coronavirus. The Chinese […]

mrtom-uk/iStock(NEW YORK) — Health officials are preparing for the possibility of a pandemic as coronavirus cases in China top 20,000. There are now 425 deaths related to the coronavirus since the outbreak began. The United […]

RonTech2000/iStock(LONDON) — Dozens of people have been killed by rebel fighters in recent attacks on villages in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, an area ravaged by the world’s second-largest Ebola outbreak. Militia wielding […]

mrtom-uk/iStock(NEW YORK) — The coronavirus outbreak has now infected nearly 17,500 people globally and has killed at least 362 of them, almost all in China. The vast majority of cases of the novel coronavirus have […]