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Israeli airstrike hits school in Gaza, killing at least 30

Gaza’s Health Ministry said 11 people were killed in other strikes on Saturday.

Life and death in the heat. What it feels like when Earth’s temperatures soar to record highs.
As the warming Earth sizzled through a week with four of the hottest days ever measured, the world focused on cold hard numbers that showed the average daily temperature for the entire planet.

Grappling with maritime disputes and Myanmar crisis, ASEAN top diplomat meetings joined by US, China
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived Saturday in Vientiane to meet with the ASEAN foreign ministers.

Arson attacks paralyze French high-speed rail network hours before start of Olympics

French officials condemned the attacks as “criminal actions,” though they said there was no sign of a direct link to the Olympics.

After Netanyahu’s meeting with Harris, pressure for cease-fire grows
Netanyahu’s trip to Washington this week, which included White House meetings with Harris and President Biden and a high-profile speech to Congress, has heightened criticism of his ambivalent response to a proposed cease-fire deal.

As starvation spreads in Sudan, military blocks aid trucks at border
Experts warn that Sudan, barely functioning after 15 months of fighting, could soon face one of the world’s worst famines in decades.

Powerful cartel leader ‘El Mayo’ Zambada was lured onto airplane before arrest in US
Zambada appeared in federal court in El Paso Friday morning and has entered a plea of not guilty to slew of drug trafficking charges, court records show.

Wounded in a strike that killed her family, a 2-year-old joins Gaza’s ranks of thousands of orphans
Two-year-old Siwar Abdel-Hadi is the lone survivor in her family after an Israeli airstrike on her home in central Gaza killed her parents and three siblings.

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What we know about the Sinaloa cartel arrests

The United States arrested two of the world’s most wanted drug traffickers Thursday and accused them of being responsible for the growing presence of fentanyl in the country, where it has devastated communities.

Sri Lanka will hold presidential election on Sept. 21, its first since declaring bankruptcy in 2022

Sri Lanka will hold a presidential election on Sept. 21 that will likely be a test of confidence in President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s efforts to resolve the country’s worst economic crisis.

Agreement with Russia is ‘deal with the devil,’ adviser to Ukrainian president says

A deal would only buy time for Russian President Vladimir Putin to strengthen his army and usher in another, potentially more violent chapter in the war, Mykhailo Podolyak told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday.

Chinese and Russian bombers patrolling off Alaska raise concerns about growing military cooperation

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says that Russian and Chinese bombers flying together for the first time in international airspace off the coast of Alaska is a new show of expanding military cooperation and it raises concerns.

Fast-moving wildfire in the Canadian Rockies ravages the picturesque resort town of Jasper

A fast-moving wildfire in the Canadian Rockies that had prompted 25,000 people to flee has roared into the near-deserted town of Jasper, causing devasting damage.

China rules solar energy, but its industry at home is in trouble

Wholesale prices plummeted by almost half last year and have fallen another 25 percent this year. Chinese manufacturers are competing for customers by cutting prices far below their costs, and still keep building more factories.

Israeli forces retrieve from Gaza the bodies of five people killed on Oct. 7

The bodies were found Wednesday in a tunnel shaft in a Khan Younis zone that Israel had previously designated as a humanitarian area.

Pop the cork? A shipwreck apparently brims with unopened sparkling wine.

At a small wreck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, a diver found crates and crates of what appeared to be Champagne, along with wine and porcelain from the mid-1800s.