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Valery SharifulinTASS via Getty Images (ALMATY, Kazakhstan) — There are signs Kazakhstan’s president is slowly regaining control in the country, following a bloody clampdown by security forces to end days of mass protests and after [Read More…]

Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images (LONDON) — Duchess Kate is starting 2022 with a milestone birthday. The Duchess of Cambridge turns 40 on Jan. 9, a birthday she is expected to celebrate privately with her family. Kate, [Read More…]

ABDUAZIZ MADYAROV/AFP via Getty Images (MOSCOW) — Russian paratroopers have arrived in Kazakhstan to help its government end mass protests that are gripping the former Soviet country. The Russian troops are deploying to Kazakhstan as [Read More…]

Julien Behal/PA Images via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With Sudan’s fragile transition to democracy derailed, the United States and Europe have issued a stark warning to the Sudanese military against appointing a new government “without [Read More…]

GTW/Getty Images (LONDON) — Kazakhstan’s president has appealed to a Russian-led military alliance for help in quelling the mass protests gripping the Central Asian country, promising to use force to put down the unrest. President [Read More…]

MediaProduction/Getty Images (LONDON) — One child died and eight others were injured after a bouncy castle overturned near the Spanish port city of Valencia on Tuesday evening, authorities said. The accident occurred at a fairground [Read More…]

GTW/Getty Images (LONDON) — Mass protests have broken out in Kazakhstan, triggered by a sharp rise in fuel prices in the Central Asian country. Videos posted on social media show thousands of people gathering in [Read More…]

Dan Kitwood/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Attorneys for Prince Andrew appeared virtually in front of a federal judge in New York on Tuesday, arguing that a lawsuit against the prince made by an alleged victim [Read More…]

Philippe SIUBERSKI/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A research station in Antarctica is battling a COVID-19 outbreak despite being located in one of the most remote corners of the world. Since mid-December, 11 of [Read More…]

iStock/CatEyePerspective (NEW YORK) — A document Prince Andrew claims should prevent him from being sued by an alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein was unsealed Monday by a federal judge in New York. The document, a [Read More…]

GETTY/ George Pachantouris (NEW MEXICO) — Twenty-one people have been rescued after becoming trapped overnight in tram cars on the Sandia Peak Tramway in Albuquerque, New Mexico, authorities said. The tramway cars had been stuck since [Read More…]

SAUL LOEB/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday — their second conversation this month amid heightened fears of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The call, [Read More…]

Chesnot/Getty Images (LONDON) — France this week became the latest European country to tighten its coronavirus restrictions, with nations across the continent posting record numbers of COVID-19 infections in an omicron-fueled surge. On Dec. 21, [Read More…]

Anthony Kwan/Getty Images (HONG KONG) — Hong Kong’s national security police arrested six people linked to Stand News, an independent online media outlet, in another sign that the city’s once-thriving press freedom is taking a [Read More…]

NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images (MOSCOW) — In what has been described as a watershed moment for President Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on dissent, Russia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the closure of Memorial International, the [Read More…]

iStock/narvikk (NEW YORK) — SydPath, an Australian-based lab, sent hundreds of patients the wrong test results, due to a “data processing error,” it said in a statement. The lab announced in a statement Monday that [Read More…]

Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images (MOSCOW) — Russia’s deputy defense minister warned foreign ambassadors of a “high risk” of conflict between the country and its neighbor Ukraine — one day after President Vladimir Putin threatened “diverse” military [Read More…]

iStock/nirat (LONDON) — After a failed appeal earlier this month, Britain’s The Mail on Sunday included a front-page notice on Dec. 26 to readers that it lost the legal battle over publishing parts of a [Read More…]

(CAPE TOWN, South Africa) — South Africa’s Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, an anti-apartheid activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, died on Sunday. He was 90. “The passing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter [Read More…]

MB Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — If there is any doubt about climate change, look no further than the coldest regions of the planet for proof that the planet is warming at unprecedented rates, experts say. [Read More…]