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Comment on this story Comment WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s top police official told a radio broadcaster that a grenade launcher that was a present from Ukrainian officials accidentally exploded while he was moving it in his office this week. Gen. Jarosław Szymczyk gave his first comments after the unusual incident to Poland’s Radio RMF FM, […]

Comment on this story Comment DOHA, Qatar — Fatima Garcia donned a headscarf and a black abaya — a long, loose-fitting robe — over her clothes as she walked into a mosque in Doha to learn about Islam. In Qatar to enjoy the World Cup with friends, the Salvadoran visitor took a day off from […]

Comment on this story Comment Pope Francis has ordered the Vatican Museums to return three Parthenon fragments to Greece, amid a global reckoning in which Western institutions have begun to return remains and artifacts to their countries of origin — or refused demands to do so. The marble sculptural fragments, which include 5th century B.C. […]

Comment on this story Comment KYIV, Ukraine — Emergency crews pulled the body of a toddler from the rubble in a pre-dawn search for survivors on Saturday of a Russian missile strike that tore through an apartment building in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih. The missile was one of what Ukrainian authorities said […]

Comment on this story Comment CHISINAU, Moldova — The broadcast licenses of six television channels in Moldova have been suspended over accusations of misinformation, inaccurate coverage of Russia’s war in Ukraine, and “attempts to manipulate public opinion,” authorities said. The decision to revoke the licenses of the channels First in Moldova, RTR Moldova, Accent TV, […]

Four people were hospitalized in critical condition on Friday after hundreds of people forced their way into a London concert venue during a performance by Nigerian Afrobeats star Asake. Police said eight people were taken to hospitals after being caught in a crowd of people trying to get into the O2 Brixton Academy. Two other injured […]

China is facing its biggest public health challenge since the start of the coronavirus pandemic more than three years ago. Nine days after the government abruptly abandoned its draconian “zero-COVID” policy, halting mandatory mass-testing and forcible quarantines, COVID-19 is once again spreading like wildfire across the vast country. On Friday, local media outlets within China‘s […]

Reda Mahmoud gets a hug from her son Wissam Mohamed outside an airport in Cairo, Egypt, December 8, 2022, upon meeting him for the first time 44 years after she believed he had died as an infant. Rami el-Gebali/Missing Children Cairo — Just two weeks after he was born in Jordan, Wissam Mohamed got sick. […]

There is a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, with an average of 2,500 men, women and children crossing into El Paso, Texas every day. That number could soon skyrocket with the expiration of Title 42, a pandemic-era rule that made it easier to turn back migrants —  many who are fleeing poverty and persecution in […]

An American college student who was reported missing last month while studying abroad in France is alive and in Spain, a French official and the student’s family said Friday. Ken DeLand Jr. had last been heard from on Nov. 27, when he communicated with his family via WhatsApp.  Eric Vaillant, the public prosecutor in Grenoble, […]