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Riot police in helmets and shields advance through tear gas toward masked protesters near a burned car and newspaper kiosk on a Paris street.

France Arrests 1,200 After Masked Protesters Burn a Town Hall During Nationwide Marches Over Schools and Prices

Masked protesters set fire to the 143-year-old town hall in Limoges on Saturday, and by midnight Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu was saying that 1,200 people had…

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No Kings Rallies Hit More Than 40 Georgia Towns Tomorrow. Early Voting Just Set a First-Day Record.

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Trump’s Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Is Out After Five Days, Six Fewer Than Scaramucci

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Ukraine’s Military Starlink Got a Speed Cap Days After the US Threatened to Cut Its Intelligence, and No One Will Own It

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At Least 32 Children and a Teacher Died When a Peshawar School Roof Collapsed. It Was Pakistan’s Fourth Deadly School Roof Collapse Since May.

The roof of the Al-Khair school in Peshawar fell onto the classrooms below it…

By Mark Masterson · 2d ago

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Pope Leo Has Lung Cancer After Surgery. Can He Still Make His November Trip to South America?

The Vatican says Pope Leo XIV has lung adenocarcinoma after surgeons removed a lobe…

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Hackers Forced Freezers to 122 Degrees at Hundreds of French Supermarkets. The Pentagon Still Has Not Said Why Its Commissary Freezers Defrosted in August.

“ALL freezers went into defrost mode.” Fort Huachuca, Arizona, describing an overnight failure at…

By Mark Masterson · 4d ago

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Bulgaria Summons Russia’s Ambassador on Logic, Not Proof, After Drones Sink a Cargo Ship With 11 Missing

“We do not have solid and clear evidence to bring accusations against any of…

By Mark Masterson · 4d ago

Pope Leo XIV, in white, stands behind a clear lectern at the open window of the Apostolic Palace above a red banner.

Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lung Surgery This Week After Doctors Found an Early-Stage Nodule

At noon on Sunday, Pope Leo XIV stood at the window of the Apostolic…

By Mark Masterson · 5d ago

Volodymyr Zelensky in a black field shirt speaks at a lectern with two microphones, a Ukrainian flag behind him

Twice in 27 Days, Trump Has Declared a Russia-Ukraine ‘Energy Ceasefire.’ Zelensky Calls the New One ‘News for Me.’

President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social on Sunday morning that Russia and Ukraine…

By Mark Masterson · 6d ago

Illustration: three coast guard crew in navy uniforms and orange life vests on a grey inflatable patrol boat scan choppy water near an overturned wooden boat hull off an arid, rocky coastline

At Least 109 Migrants Are Dead After a Boat Capsized Off Djibouti, the Deadliest Shipwreck Recorded There

“This tragic shipwreck may sadly mark the first of many incidents this year.” That…

By Mark Masterson · 6d ago

Illustration of an airport departures board in a darkened terminal with flights to Jeddah, Dammam, Medina, Abha, Tabuk and Jizan all marked cancelled in red

A Missile Killed 12 at Riyadh’s Airport. Trump Says “We May” Join Saudi Strikes on the Houthis.

A missile killed 12 at Riyadh's main airport. Trump says the US may join…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 10

Emergency rescuers in reflective-striped uniforms carry a stretcher down the rubble of a collapsed section of a yellow-brick apartment block, with spruce trees around the courtyard

Seven Hours After Trump Lifted Sanctions on Russian Diesel, Putin’s Glide Bombs Killed at Least 15 in Zaporizhzhia

Russian glide bombs killed at least 15 people in Zaporizhzhia, three of them children,…

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7.7 Earthquake Hits Southern Panama and Topples a Cathedral Tower

A 7.7 earthquake hit Panama's Azuero Peninsula Friday. The tsunami threat passed and the…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 9

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Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Navi Pillay, a Founding Judge of the Court Trump Sanctioned

The Nobel committee's own release points at sanctioned judges. Navi Pillay sat on the…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 9

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