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Paramount and Warner Bros merge into one Hollywood giant

Paramount has completed an $81 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, as its owner Skydance creates a new entertain…

Spain court lifts Puigdemont arrest warrant, clearing way for his return home ahead of November elections

Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont fled Spain in 2017 after launching an independence bid. The court's decision…

French students: What do they want?

We take a look at what exactly French high school students are demanding in their nationwide blockades. From crumbling b…

Ethiopia 'fears Tigray conflict could get out of control'

Airstrikes and artillery fire rocked northern Ethiopia's Tigray region overnight into Monday, aid sources said, in clash…

The chaos inside Hegseth’s defense department that left Trump ‘concerned’ by scale of purge

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, one of a long list of Pentagon departures under the defense secretary’s rule, has spoken ou…

As more Iranian women reject hijab rules, regime looks at new ways to force compliance

As more women in Iran reject Islamist rules on wearing hijab headscarves, hardliners are shifting focus from "morality p…

Southeast Asia's haze crisis: Have lessons been learned?

Eleven years after catastrophic fires prompted promises of tougher action, Southeast Asia is again choking on transbound…

Great pumpkin caper: Thieves steal nearly all the gourds from family farm

The thieves appeared to prefer the traditional orange pumpkins, leaving already harvested specialty varieties behind…

Trump uses anti-trans slur to attack woman running against Darline Graham in South Carolina

Dr. Annie Andrews is facing Trump-backed Darline Graham in the race for a South Carolina senate seat…

Germany's far-right AfD makes history again in Saxony-Anhalt

For the first time since the end of World War II, a German state parliament has chosen parliamentary speaker from the fa…

How to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

Can Xue is considered one of this year's favorites; Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie are other strong contenders. But …

'Heavy police presence' as students set to march in Paris

A major march is set to depart from central Paris this afternoon as French students continue their protests classroom co…

Mexico makes push for fracking despite environmental concerns

Following months of consultations with energy experts, Mexico is preparing to tap its shale oil and gas reserves using o…

Black Sea drone attack that sunk ship off Bulgaria condemned as crew still missing

It appeared to be the first such attack in Bulgarian waters…

🔴 UK police arrest 22-year-old Briton in suspected Fairford base plot

Tigray students relocated by conflict say fled forced conscription

Due to the ongoing fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray region, some 5,000 students who asked to be relocated are now starting …

Kilmar Abrego Garcia returns to federal court to fight deportation to Liberia

He was arrested in Baltimore in March 2025 after picking up his then-5-year-old son, who has autism and other disabiliti…

How Russia and the world are responding to a possible case of pneumonic plague after lab worker dies

The World Health Organization says that a possible case of pneumonic plague in Russia poses a "very low" risk outside th…

Backpacker serial killer linked to 30 more cases in Australia

Ivan Milat was convicted of seven murders and died in prison in 2019 …

Voters are now turning to ChatGPT to help them pick who to choose in November

Citizens increasingly asking chatbots for information on midterms candidates to better understand their policy positions…

Nigerian military plane crash kills all 25 on board

Rescue teams searched the crash site after the military aircraft went down in southern Nigeria, with everyone on board n…

Kenya reports first-ever Ebola death

The patient arrived in Kenya over the weekend from the Democratic Republic of Congo before testing positive for the viru…

Philip Ingram sees Russia, China and Iran stepping up ‘gray zone’ activities across UK and Europe

François Picard is pleased to welcome Philip Ingram, journalist and former British military intelligence officer. The ev…

Russia issues update on death of Siberian plague lab worker

Darya Shipilova is reported to have been exposed to the pathogen while working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Insti…