Leaders from around the world are visiting Kyiv to mark three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Also, ...

Russia launched the largest drone strike of the war in Ukraine over the weekend. This come as the country marks three years since its full-scale invasion by Russia. Political leaders from across the ...

Temperatures reaching 107 degrees Fahrenheit are wreaking havoc across South Sudan, and causing some students to faint in crowded classrooms. That’s led the government to close schools for at least ...

Rebel groups — notably the one known as M23 — have been taking territory in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, with help from Rwanda. The European Union says the DRC’s borders are non-negotiable.

A US shut down of foreign aid is starting to have devastating impacts around the world, with health programs and even military assistance now paused in many countries. In Latin America, some fear that ...

Kin Gongolo Kiniata means “the sound that crushes.” The band plays with electric guitars and handmade instruments made from recycled materials like plastic bottles and metal. It’s a sound the group ...

In Brazil, a large sink hole is opening up in the city of Buriticupu, in the northeastern Amazon. Over a thousand people in a neighborhood on the edge of town are watching their homes slowly fall off ...

As egg prices in the US skyrocket, it is looking across the ocean for help. Turkey, a major egg exporter, is stepping in to help alleviate a massive shortage in the US caused by the spread of bird flu ...

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has sent tanks into West Bank cities and towns prompting international concern. This caps weeks of Palestinians fleeing their homes across the West Bank under shelling ...

Germany is about to get a new chancellor. Friedrich Merz, who leads the conservative Christian Democratic party, won the most votes in yesterday’s election. But the far right also made big wins. The ...

Roughly 6 million Venezuelans have fled their country over the past 10 years, some of them comedians and satirists. A 2018 anti-hate law passed by the government of Nicolás Maduro clamped down on all ...

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