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Pope Leo XIV names first Chinese bishop, signalling he is continuing Vatican’s controversial accord
Pope Leo XIV made his first appointment of a Chinese bishop under the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with Beijing, signalling he is ...
Turkey to export 48 of its nationally produced fighter jets to Indonesia
Turkey will export 48 of its nationally-produced KAAN fighter jets to Indonesia, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ...
Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate ask a court to stop his execution
Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate will be in federal court Wednesday trying to convince a judge that the state is ...
World-famous German “nail artist” Günther Uecker dies at 95
German artist Günther Uecker, one of the country’s most important post-war artists who was world-famous for his large-format nail reliefs, has died. He was 95. German news ...
Weather forecast: Warmer air with a haze overhead
Lower pressure in Canada will fight against dry air across the eastern part of the United States today, forcing wind to pick ...
Global shares climb after China and the US say they have a framework for seeking a trade deal
Global shares mostly rose Wednesday after China and the U.S. said they had agreed on a framework for following up on the trade truce reached last month in Geneva. France’s CAC ...
South Korea halts loudspeaker broadcasts along border with rival North Korea
South Korea’s military has shut down loudspeakers broadcasting anti-North Korean propaganda along the inter-Korean border, in a move aimed at easing tensions. The South ...
Farewell letter found at the home of the Austrian school shooter but motive remains unclear
Investigators found a farewell letter and a non-functional pipe bomb when they searched the home of a man who opened fire at his former school in Austria, killing 10 people ...
Russia drones hit Kharkiv and other parts of Ukraine
Russian forces launched a large-scale drone assault across Ukraine overnight, with 85 Shahed-type drones and decoy UAVs targeting the northeastern city of Kharkiv and other ...
Los Angeles imposes downtown curfew as protests against Trump’s immigration crackdown continue
Los Angeles leaders imposed a downtown curfew through Wednesday morning to deal with protests against President Donald ...
The world’s oldest restaurant faces a challenge from another Madrid tavern that says its even older
In the heart of Spain’s capital, Sobrino de Botín holds a coveted Guinness World Record as the world’s oldest restaurant. Exactly three hundred years after it opened its ...
A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments in Trump’s bid to erase his hush money conviction
President Donald Trump’s quest to erase his criminal conviction heads to a federal appeals court Wednesday. It’s one way he’s ...