- — Israeli police fatally shoot man at Jerusalem's holy site
- Israeli police say officers shot and killed a man who allegedly tried to seize an officer’s weapons at a flashpoint Jerusalem site
- — Mexico's president visits city where fire killed 39 migrants
- Mexico’s president is visiting the border city of Ciudad Juarez, where 39 men died in an immigration detention center fire
- — Romania: Andrew Tate's detention replaced with house arrest
- A Romanian official says the divisive internet personality Andrew Tate has won an appeal to replace his months of detention in jail with house arrest while under investigation for possible organized crime and human trafficking
- — Experts say Mexico military holding info on missing students
- A group of international experts investigating the 2014 disappearance of 43 students in southern Mexico says Mexico’s military has failed to hand over key information on the case
- — Mexican military accused of hindering probe of 43 missing students
- International investigators claim the country's powerful military is blocking access to details that could be crucial in solving the students' disappearance.
- — Canada migrant death toll at 8, after 2 more bodies found
- Police in the Mohawk Territory of Akwesasne say they have found the bodies of two more people, including an infant, who were among a group of migrants who died trying to cross into the United States
- — Moscow hadn’t accused a U.S. reporter of spying since the Cold War — until this week
- In 1986, the USSR claimed American journalist Nicholas Daniloff was a spy. Nearly four decades later, Moscow said the same of WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich.
- — Andrew Tate and brother released from jail, put under house arrest
- Andrew Tate, who spent months in a Romanian jail accused of human trafficking, won an appeal to go on house arrest.
- — Ukraine live briefing: ‘Let him go,’ Biden says of U.S. reporter detained in Russia
- Press advocates have called for the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, 31, a U.S. journalist accused by Russia of espionage.
- — Arresting U.S. journalist, Kremlin ruthlessly pursues wartime aims
- The arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and prosecution of a Russian dad spotlight Vladimir Putin's willingness to disregard global norms and squash dissent at all costs.
- — Climate protesters who stormed British Grand Prix avoid jail
- Six climate change activists were spared prison sentences for storming last year’s British Grand Prix Formula 1 race in one of a series of disruptive protests against fossil fuels
- — Lourdes shrine reviewing mosaics after Jesuit abuse claims
- Officials at the Catholic shrine in Lourdes are mulling what to do with the French sanctuary’s mosaics
- — Pope to leave hospital, take part in Palm Sunday services, Vatican says
- After being hospitalized for bronchitis Wednesday there were fears for the 86-year-old pontiff's health.
- — Vatican: Pope OK to leave hospital, has pizza, baptizes baby
- The Vatican says medical staff have confirmed that Pope Francis will be discharged on Saturday from the Rome hospital where he is being treated for bronchitis
- — Italy temporarily bans ChatGPT over privacy concerns
- The Italian data protection agency cited concerns about privacy and the absence of age checks with the artificial-intelligence chatbot.
- — US Navy deploys more chaplains for suicide prevention
- Concerned with preventing growing numbers of suicides, the US Navy is planning to make chaplains regular members of the crew on ships with more than 300 sailors, instead of only the largest carriers as in the past
- — Several injured as 2 Swiss regional trains derail in storm
- Police say two regional trains in Switzerland have derailed in separate incidents, injuring more than a dozen people after a storm brought high winds and strong rains to the small Alpine nation
- — Olympian Oscar Pistorius denied parole 10 years after murdering girlfriend
- South African Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius was found guilty of shooting model Reeva Steenkamp dead on Valentine's Day 2013.
- — How China let a ship banned for ferrying North Korean coal go rogue
- The case of the Petrel 8, a zombie ship that came back to life, shows that the sanction regime on Pyongyang is full of holes.
- — Death scene in burned Filipino ferry moves rescuers to tears
- A Philippine coast guard commander says the tragic scenes of death his team saw aboard a gutted ferry, including adults clutching children, moved them to tears and sparked fears other passengers could be found dead in the still-smoldering ship
- — Vatican: Pope spends 2nd night 'serenely' in hospital
- The Vatican says Pope Francis has spent his second night in a Rome hospital serenely as he receives antibiotics intravenously to treat bronchitis
- — Vatican rejects ‘doctrine of discovery’ used to justify colonial rule
- The Catholic Church's move comes centuries after papal decrees were used by European powers to seize Indigenous land in Canada, the United States and elsewhere.
- — The stuffed animals comforting Ukraine’s children in wartime
- “It’s like a line appeared," said a fourth-grade teacher in Bucha. "There was childhood on one side — and all of a sudden they grew up.”
- — Sudan state media says 10 workers dead in gold mine collapse
- Sudanese authorities say at least 10 people are dead after a gold mine collapsed in northern Sudan
- — Ukraine live briefing: Turkey approves Finland’s NATO bid; U.S. in direct contact with Russia over detained journalist
- Russia has detained 31-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich for alleged espionage, charges the White House called “ridiculous.”
- — Members of exiled Chinese church detained in Thailand
- Supporters of a Chinese Christian church say more than 60 members have been detained in Thailand, raising fears they may be returned to their home country where they face possible persecution
- — 35 bodies found inside well after collapse at Indian temple
- Thirty-five bodies have been found inside a well at a Hindu temple in central India after dozens of people fell into the muddy water when the well’s cover collapsed
- — Taiwan leader scrambles for allies in Central America visit
- As Taiwan’s diplomatic partners dwindle and turn instead to rival China, Taiwanese President President Tsai Ing-wen is aiming to shore up ties with the self-governing island’s remaining allies during a trip this week to Central America
- — Under Biden, U.S. sees unions as key ally in democracy agenda
- The importance of organized labor in the life of democracies and how to bolster unions were main themes on the last day of the Summit for Democracy.
- — Canadian police say 6 dead found near Quebec border with US
- The Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service in Canada says it is investigating the discovery of six bodies in a marshy area near Quebec’s border with New York state
- — Taiwan, like Ukraine, is fighting for democracy, Tsai says in New York
- Beijing is threatening to retaliate if Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen goes ahead with a planned meeting in California with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
- — Mexican experts say mummy exhibit may pose health risks
- Mexican government experts say they are concerned that a traveling display of mummies from the 1800s may pose a health risk to the public
- — Ukraine live briefing: White House condemns Russia’s detention of U.S. journalist; Finland clears NATO hurdle
- Russia's Federal Security Service said it detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and opened an “espionage” case against him.
- — Arrest orders issued for 6 in Mexican detention center fire
- A Mexican court has issued arrest orders for six people in relation to the fire that killed 39 migrants at a detention facility earlier this week in the border city of Ciudad Juarez
- — High inflation pushes poverty rate even higher in Argentina
- One of the world’s highest inflation rates is making it more difficult to make ends meet in Argentina
- — Israeli strikes hit suburbs of Syrian capital for 2nd day
- Syrian state media say Israel has staged airstrikes on the suburbs of the Syrian capital of Damascus for the second day in a row
- — Turkey's parliament ratifies Finland's membership in NATO
- Turkey’s parliament has ratified Finland’s application to join NATO, lifting the last hurdle to the Nordic country’s long-delayed accession into the Western military alliance
- — Ecuador police deactivate explosive device taped to guard
- Police in Ecuador have successfully deactivated a vest-like explosive device that an unknown number of people allaegedly had taped to the chest of a security guard at a jewelry store in the country’s main port city
- — Turkey approves Finland’s NATO bid, clearing path for it to join alliance
- Finland and Sweden applied to join the military bloc after Russia invaded Ukraine. Turkey has still not approved Sweden's bid.
- — Turkey's parliament ratifies Finland's membership in NATO
- Turkey’s parliament has ratified Finland’s application to join NATO, lifting the last hurdle to the Nordic country’s long-delayed accession into the Western military alliance
- — Ukraine live briefing: White House condemns Russia detention of U.S. journalist
- Russia's Federal Security Service said it detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and opened an “espionage” case against him.
- — Wall Street Journal reporter arrested in Russia by security service
- Russia's Federal Security Service, the FSB, said that it detained reporter and U.S. citizen Evan Gershkovich and opened an investigation into "espionage."
- — King Charles III applauds German and British unity in defending Ukraine
- King Charles's first royal visit is to one of the stalwarts of the European Union and comes amid tensions between the bloc and its recently departed member, Britain.
- — Ukraine live briefing: Russia detains U.S. journalist; IAEA warns of fighting near nuclear plant
- Russia's Federal Security Service said it detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and opened an “espionage” case against him.
- — Bolsonaro arrives home in Brazil — and faces an uncertain future
- The former president faces a laundry list of investigations related to his controversial term in office.
- — Pope has bronchitis, is improving but remains hospitalized, Vatican says
- Pope Francis was hospitalized with a respiratory infection the night before, raising concerns about the 86-year-old pontiff's health.
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