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Comment on this story Comment Angelina Jolie, perhaps the world’s most high-profile advocate for refugees, is stepping away from her role as a special envoy to the United Nations refugee agency, citing a desire to “work differently” — outside the United Nations. “After 20 years working within the UN system I feel it is time […]

Comment on this story Comment Iga Paul was doing what most 2-year-olds do on Sunday afternoons — he was playing outside his home. But just over 800 yards away from the toddler’s Uganda home was Lake Edward, one of the smallest bodies of water in the Great Rift Valley, where big hungry creatures reside. On […]

Comment on this story Comment LIMA, Peru — It might be the world’s shortest political honeymoon. Almost since the moment last week when Dina Boluarte took over from the ousted leader Pedro Castillo to become Peru’s first female president, she has appealed for calm and a chance to govern, insisting that the caretaker job came […]

Comment on this story Comment HAGATNA, Guam — Guam’s Legislature on Friday passed a bill prohibiting most abortions, a measure modeled after a new Texas law that leaves enforcement up to private citizen lawsuits instead of criminal prosecution. Gov. Lou Leon Guerro, who favors abortion rights, is expected to veto the measure. The Guam Heartbeat […]

Comment on this story Comment A prominent British royal aide who resigned from her role at Buckingham Palace after asking a Black British charity director where she was “really from” has met with the activist to apologize and pledged to learn from the incident, according to a joint announcement released on Friday. Lady Susan Hussey, […]

Comment on this story Comment UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly on Friday rejected attempts by Myanmar’s military junta, Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, and Libya’s rival eastern-based government to take their country’s seats at the United Nations. The 193-member world body voted by consensus, with a bang of the gavel by assembly president Csaba Kőrösi, […]

Comment on this story Comment BUENOS AIRES — The funny thing is, María Cristina Mariscotti isn’t that much of a soccer fan. The 76-year-old prefers gardening to keeping up with Lionel Messi and the national team. She hasn’t been watching the World Cup — the matches make her too anxious, she says — and until […]

Grammy-winning rapper, Megan Thee Stallion, took the stand on Dec. 13 against fellow rapper Tory Lanez, who is on trial for allegedly shooting her in July 2020. Megan, whose real name is Megan Pete, testified in court that Lanez shot at her after an argument the pair had that July night, and how the experience […]

Jacquie Baker, a former Air Force engineer, has had nightmares four or five nights a week for nearly a decade. The scenarios vary, but the feeling of helplessness is always the same: she’ll watch someone get murdered, or she’ll forget her pre-flight checklist and the plane she’s riding will crash. “I started having skin issues, […]

The universe is thought to harbor uncounted worlds that are home to water. The one we know best, of course, is our own, and as of 3:46 a.m. PT this morning, we set about working to know it better still. That was the moment, as NASA reports, that the SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) […]