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Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — As Israel’s military prepared last month to launch its ground offensive into Gaza City, the Israel Defense Forces published a warning about al-Kawthar Tower, a residential high-rise in [Read More…]

Mount Everest 8,848 m (29,029 ft) and the Himalayas, aerial photo, Nepal, Asia./(Bim/Getty) (SEOUL, South Korea) — Scaling the world’s highest peak is a risky adventure. But even hanging around the base camp can be [Read More…]

The police investigation continues at the scene near Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, where two people died in a terror attack. Picture date: Friday October 3, 2025. (Photo by Peter Byrne/PA Images [Read More…]

Christopher Furlong/Getty Images (LONDON) — Two men were killed and three were wounded in a terrorist incident outside a synagogue in Manchester, England, on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, officials said. One suspect drove [Read More…]

Christopher Furlong/Getty Images (LONDON) — Two people were killed and four were wounded when a suspect drove a car into a group of worshippers and launched a stabbing attack outside a synagogue in Manchester, England, [Read More…]

Christopher Furlong/Getty Images (LONDON) — Two people were killed and four were wounded when a suspect drove a car into a group of worshippers and launched a stabbing attack outside a synagogue in Manchester, England, [Read More…]

Christopher Furlong/Getty Images (LONDON) — A vehicle was driven toward a crowd of people and a man was stabbed near a synagogue in Manchester, a northern British city, police said. “One man has been shot, [Read More…]

Suzanne Plunkett – WPA Pool/Getty Images (LONDON) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with European leaders in Copenhagen on Thursday, according to a press release from the Danish prime minister’s office, with the allied [Read More…]

Jane Goodall and her son Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick appearing on the ABC TV special ‘Jane Goodall and the World of Animal Behavior: The Lions of the Serengeti’ in Africa, 1976. Walt Disney Television [Read More…]

Mkanuel Schwarz/picture alliance via Getty Images (LONDON) — Munich’s famous Oktoberfest event briefly closed on Wednesday following a bomb threat linked to a fire at a residence in the north of the city, police said. [Read More…]

Daniel Ceng/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake killed at least 69 people in the Philippines, officials said on Wednesday. The quake was recorded at 9:59 p.m. local  time on Tuesday [Read More…]

Mkanuel Schwarz/picture alliance via Getty Images (LONDON) — Police in the southern German city of Munich said the famous Oktoberfest event would be closed until Wednesday afternoon, following a bomb threat linked to a deadly [Read More…]

Danylo Dubchak/Frontliner/Getty Images (LONDON) — NATO fighter jets were scrambled and air defense units put on alert in the early hours of Sunday in response to a major Russian drone and missile strike on Ukraine, [Read More…]

Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. State Department said it was revoking the visa of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who had traveled to New York this week for the United Nations General [Read More…]

Steffen Trumpf/dpa (Photo by Steffen Trumpf/picture alliance via Getty Images (LONDON) — Drone overflights again caused disruptions at Danish airports on Wednesday night, officials said, in the latest instance of unexplained drone sightings over sensitive [Read More…]

Sawayasu Tsuji/Getty Images (LONDON) — Typhoon Ragasa swept along the southern coast of China on Wednesday, bringing lashing rain, fierce winds and coastal flooding as it made its way toward landfall. The powerful storm was [Read More…]

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (LONDON) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised his “productive meeting” with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, after which Trump appeared to [Read More…]

Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Trump administration’s tariffs on Indian goods, initially 25% and then additional 25%, “due to India’s direct or indirect importation of Russian Federation oil,” is expected to make [Read More…]

Viktor Kovalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images (LONDON) — At least 41 drones were shot down while heading toward Moscow from Monday evening through to Tuesday morning, according to city Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, amid what [Read More…]

The United Nations headquarters is seen in Manhattan on Sept. 9, 2025 as the annual U.N. General Assembly, the 80th, began with thousands of delegates and world leaders expected to attend over the next few [Read More…]