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Jose Azel/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Climbing Mount Everest is one of the most difficult feats known to humankind, but the treacherous expedition is getting even more challenging due to climate change, according to experts. [Read More…]

ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — A large explosion has reportedly torn through a fuel store being used by ethnic Armenia refugees amidst their exodus from the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Thousands of ethnic [Read More…]

Valentyn Semenov / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — No movie can capture the sweat, blood, pain and tears, said Serhiy. “The scariest things you can imagine and can’t imagine, you find here,” Serhiy, a commander [Read More…]

belterz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian forces are allegedly committing continuous war crimes in Ukraine, including rape and “widespread and systematic” torture, the latest Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine found. The Russians are [Read More…]

Manuel Augusto Moreno/Getty Images (CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico) — The U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Sunday that the agency’s top official has met with authorities in Mexico to work on ways to better secure their [Read More…]

Craig Lovell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Embassy of Cuba in Washington, D.C., was “the target of a terrorist attack,” when two Molotov cocktails were tossed at the building on Sunday night, according to Cuba’s Minister [Read More…]

ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Thousands of ethnic Armenian refugees have started fleeing from the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, amid growing fears of an exodus following Azerbaijan’s successful military offensive to retake control [Read More…]

ABC News (TEHRAN) — In a new interview, the wife of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi repeated claims by her country’s officials that the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last fall was the result of a preexisting [Read More…]

Martin Harvey/Getty Images (LONDON) — African rhino populations are increasing despite poaching and habitat loss, new figures from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) show. The new figures, released Thursday, highlight that protection [Read More…]

EVAN VUCCI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — The diplomatic breach between Canada and India over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader near Vancouver has widened as both countries expelled one of the other’s diplomats [Read More…]

Courtesy of Adamant Verf (KYIV, Ukraine) — In a quiet bay of the Dnipro River, a one-hour drive from Kyiv, a group of Ukrainian engineers and special forces soldiers tested what they believe can be [Read More…]

Antonio Masiello/Getty Images (LONDON) — Former Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, the first in the country’s history to be reelected to office, has died, according to the nation’s press service ANSA. He was 98. The former [Read More…]

ABC News (LONDON) — The wife of the president of Iran defended a law passed this week designed to impose harsher sentences on women who do not wear hijabs in public, comparing the rules to [Read More…]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (LONDON) — Three South African Navy personnel have been pronounced dead, and one senior officer remains in critical condition, following a deadly incident at sea off the coast of Cape Town, the South [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russia has continued a nearly 19-month-long invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Recently, though, the Ukrainians have gone on a counteroffensive, fighting to reclaim occupied territory. Here’s how the news is developing. [Read More…]

Li Rui/Xinhua via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivered another speech critical of the failure to make progress on climate action. In the opening remarks for his Climate Ambition Summit, he said [Read More…]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Volodymyr Zelenskyy avoided a potential face-off with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the Ukrainian president’s first in-person appearance before the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday. Speaking via a [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After over five years as the prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern surprised the world in January when she announced that she would step down and not seek reelection, [Read More…]

KAREN MINASYAN/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Azerbaijan has announced it is suspending its military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, after ethnic Armenian authorities in the disputed enclave agreed to lay down their arms in an apparent [Read More…]

NASA (NEW YORK) — An asteroid NASA’s been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals. First discovered in 1999, Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, could possibly drift into [Read More…]