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New York billionaire surrenders stolen antiquities worth $70M
iStock/Punkbarby (NEW YORK) — Billionaire investor and philanthropist Michael Steinhardt was forced to surrender $70 million worth of stolen antiquities and comply with a lifetime ban on collecting antiquities on Monday, the Manhattan District Attorney’s [Read More…]
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Hundreds of migrants living in squalor in warehouse in Belarus amid ongoing border crisis
ABC News (BRUZGI, Belarus) — Parsa Akram now lives with her mother, father and brother under a warehouse shelf. The space is about 2 meters wide. The 18-year-old and her mother sleep in a tent, [Read More…]
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Global health authorities warn against ‘blanket’ travel bans
PinkOmelet/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Global health authorities are urging against the use of “blanket” travel bans in response to the threat of new coronavirus variants, as some nations have rushed to shutter incoming travel from southern [Read More…]
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Russia planning ‘significant aggressive moves against Ukraine,’ Blinken warns
GINTS IVUSKANS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. is “deeply concerned by evidence that Russia has made plans for significant aggressive moves against Ukraine,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday. In the most [Read More…]
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Climate change is affecting when grey seals give birth, scientists say
iStock/chonticha wat (NEW YORK) — Scientists are continuing to discover ways in which climate change is already affecting animal species around the world — including how it’s changing the phenology, or timing of biological events. [Read More…]
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Iran returns to negotiations, with a nuclear crisis still looming large for Biden
Oleksii Liskonih/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Iran returned to negotiations over its nuclear program on Monday — meeting for the first time in over five months, with the country’s new hard-line government now in control. Its chief [Read More…]
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61 people snowed in at English pub are now back home
Facebook/Tan Hill Inn (LONDON) — A British inn and pub officially bid “fond farewell” to 61 guests Monday after a blizzard stranded them for days inside. Located 270 miles north of London, Tan Hill Inn [Read More…]
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At least 19 dead, 32 injured after bus crash in Mexico
kali9/iStock (JOQUICINGO, Mexico) — At least 19 people are dead and dozens more injured after a bus crash in central Mexico Friday. The accident occurred on a highway in Joquicingo, a township in the State [Read More…]
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Germany and Austria seeing COVID cases rise among unvaccinated population
Okan Celik/iStock (BERLIN) — Germany passed a grim milestone on Thursday: 100,000 deaths from COVID-19. In recent weeks, the situation has spiraled out of control as cases have spiked and intensive care beds have become [Read More…]
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Honduras votes in elections critical to country’s future and Biden’s agenda
Manuel Chinchilla/iStock (NEW YORK) — Honduras teeters on the edge of democracy. In one of the most consequential elections in the Western Hemisphere, in one of Central America’s poorest countries, Hondurans head to the polls [Read More…]
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Egypt opens Luxor’s ancient ‘Avenue of Sphinxes’ to great fanfare
DeAgostini/Getty Images (LUXOR, Egypt) — Egypt on Thursday opened to the public a 3,000-year-old sphinx-filled avenue in the Southern city of Luxor to great fanfare, having wrapped up restoration works that took over seven decades [Read More…]
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US, others warn citizens in Ethiopia to leave as prime minister heads to front lines
beyhanyazar/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. government is warning American citizens in Ethiopia even more starkly to leave the country now, as the conflict there continues to deteriorate. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is heading to [Read More…]
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Now that countries have made their climate pledges, how will they pay for them?
metamorworks/iStock (NEW YORK) — When the world’s leaders arrived in Glasgow for COP26 earlier this month, they knew what needed to be done: keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius at all costs. The climate [Read More…]
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Egypt to open 3,000-year-old Avenue of Sphinxes in glitzy ceremony
DeAgostini/Getty Images (LUXOR, Egypt) — After more than seven decades of stop-start attempts to excavate a nearly 2-mile ancient walkway in the southern city of Luxor, Egypt will finally open the 3,000-year-old Avenue of Sphinxes [Read More…]
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Rare Einstein manuscript on theory of relativity auctioned for over $15M in Paris
Bettmann/Getty Images (LONDON) — A rare manuscript by Albert Einstein that changed the course of modern science was just sold for over 13.3 million euros (over $15 million), including fees, beating all predictions. The 54-page, [Read More…]
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Bus crash in Bulgaria kills dozens, including children: Officials
DIMITAR KYOSEMARLIEV/AFP via Getty Images (MOSCOW) — At least 45 people, including a dozen children, were killed after a tourist bus from North Macedonia crashed and caught fire in Bulgaria early Tuesday, officials said. The [Read More…]
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Two missionaries kidnapped in Haiti released, ministry says
RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two of the Christian missionaries who were kidnapped in Haiti last month have been released, according to the ministry. Nineteen people — including 17 missionaries, five of [Read More…]
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At the Poland-Belarus border, efforts to ease suffering among migrants
fstop123/iStock (BIALYSTOK, Poland) — In a dark, cold Polish wood, Ahmad Al Hasan’s coffin was lowered into a freshly dug grave. It was early evening but already pitch black in the cemetery outside the village [Read More…]
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Lukashenko and Merkel discuss Belarus-Poland border crisis in hopes it can be stopped
Yaraslau Mikheyeu/iStock (BIALYSTOK, Poland) — Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel talked with Belarus’ authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, on Wednesday, as part of a burst of European diplomatic efforts to end the migration crisis on the Belarusian [Read More…]
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Greek prime minister asks Boris Johnson to return Parthenon marbles
iStock (LONDON) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson commented in a meeting Tuesday with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis that the decision to return the famous Parthenon marbles to Greece would be left to the British [Read More…]