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At least 12 people injured in Hamburg train station stabbing, suspect in custody: Authorities
Photo by Georg Wendt/picture alliance via Getty Images (HAMBURG, GERMANY) — At least 12 people were injured, including three critically, in a stabbing attack at a train station in Germany on Friday, authorities said. The [Read More…]

Verdict reached in Kim Kardashian jewelry heist trial
Edward Berthelot/GC Images (PARIS) — A verdict was reached Friday in the 2016 jewelry heist of Kim Kardashian in Paris. Nine men and one woman were accused in connection with the robbery, during which five masked men [Read More…]

Aid trucks looted in southern Gaza as famine looms due to blockade: UN
Hasan Zaain/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — More than a dozen World Food Programme trucks were looted in southern Gaza late Thursday as 2 million people in the Strip face “extreme hunger and famine without immediate action,” [Read More…]

Russia, Ukraine begin large prisoner exchange, expected to continue in coming days
Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images (LONDON) — Russia and Ukraine have begun a large exchange of prisoners of war on Friday, the Russian Defense Ministry said, with around 1,000 soldiers from each side expected [Read More…]

Israel’s Netanyahu says ‘it appears’ Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar was killed
ABC News (LONDON) — Israel has likely killed Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a press conference on Wednesday. Sinwar is the current head of the terrorist group Hamas in the [Read More…]

Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ risks weaponization of space, China says
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (LONDON) — The Chinese Foreign Ministry accused President Donald Trump of undermining “global strategic balance and stability” by pushing ahead on his “Golden Dome” missile defense shield program — and urged the [Read More…]

Trump said only he could get Putin to make a Ukraine peace deal. It hasn’t happened.
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump, on the 2024 campaign trail, repeatedly promised voters he personally could end the Russia-Ukraine war on his first day in office — or even before. But four [Read More…]

Gaza ceasefire talks have not led anywhere, Qatari PM says
Khames Alrefi/Anadolu via Getty Images (DOHA, QATAR) — The recent Gaza ceasefire talks in Qatar have not led anywhere yet, the Qatari prime minister said Tuesday, citing a “fundamental gap” between the two parties, Israel [Read More…]

Judge orders Trump administration to maintain ‘custody and control’ of any migrants deported to South Sudan
Veronica Gabriela Cardenas-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge is probing whether the Trump administration deported migrants to South Sudan on Tuesday in violation of an earlier order barring deportations of migrants to countries other [Read More…]

Doctor details Gaza famine: ‘We’re not asking for miracles. We’re asking for food’
Hani Alshaer/Anadolu via Getty Images (GAZA STRIP) — After almost three months of a total aid blockade in Gaza and intensified attacks from Israel, children are suffering the most severe consequences, a local doctor says, [Read More…]

Iran leader casts doubt on US nuclear talks, saying Tehran won’t stop enrichment
Iranian Leader Press Office/ Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei expressed doubt about his country’s nuclear negotiations with the United States, saying he does not think the talks will come [Read More…]

Russia attacks Ukraine with drones after Trump-Putin call
Contributor/Getty Images (LONDON) — Russia launched more than 100 drones into Ukraine following the conclusion of a phone call between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Ukraine’s air force said, and as the world waited [Read More…]

Evidence of 30-foot ancient sea monster found in Mississippi
James Starnes (STARKVILLE, MS) — Geologists working in Mississippi recently stumbled upon an incredible find: the fossil of an ancient marine apex predator. They uncovered a piece of vertebra they said likely belonged to a [Read More…]

Family of Hamas hostage Edan Alexander recall dramatic Gaza release
Israeli Defense Forces / IDF / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — Edan Alexander — the American-Israeli hostage freed from Gaza last week — was “weak and exhausted” upon his dramatic release, his mother Yael [Read More…]

Pope Leo XIV to lead inaugural mass Sunday, thousands expected to gather
Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images (VATICAN CITY) — Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff for the Roman Catholic Church, will lead his inaugural mass on Sunday, according to the Vatican. The mass, called [Read More…]

Several killed in Russian drone attack on Ukrainian bus after peace talks
Eugene Abrasimov/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC “UA:PBC”/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images (LONDON) — A Russian drone hit a civilian minibus in Bilopillia, northeastern Ukraine early Saturday morning local time, killing nine people and injuring four others, according [Read More…]

From al-Qaeda to Syria’s presidency, the rise of Ahmad al-Sharaa
Rami Alsayed/NurPhoto via Getty Images (DAMASCUS, SYRIA) — He’s a former al-Qaeda insurgent who fought against U.S. forces in Iraq and served time in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison. Still, on Wednesday, new Syrian President [Read More…]

Russia-Ukraine talks: Prisoner exchange agreed upon, Ukraine requests Putin-Zelenskyy meeting
Handout photo by Arda Kucukkaya/Turkish Foreign Ministry via Getty Images (LONDON) — Russia and Ukraine agreed to a prisoner exchange during peace talks in Turkey on Friday, which were led by a U.S. delegation headed by [Read More…]

Talks led by US delegation between Russia and Ukraine underway in Turkey
Handout photo by Arda Kucukkaya/Turkish Foreign Ministry via Getty Images (LONDON) — The meeting between the U.S. delegation headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Ukraine and Russia are set to take place in Turkey on Friday following [Read More…]

Trump says Ukraine-Russia peace ‘not going to happen’ without Putin meet
Vladimir Putin & Donald Trump at G20 Osaka Summit 2019/ Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images (LONDON )– Ukrainian and Russian representatives will meet in Istanbul, Turkey, on Thursday, for their first meeting since the opening weeks of [Read More…]