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omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — North Korea launched a possible ballistic missile on Wednesday, Japan’s Ministry of Defense said in a tweet. The missile launch comes as North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Russia for a high-stakes meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. A short while after the initial news broke, South Korea’s […]
FILE photo — Alison Wright/Getty Images (LONDON) — A luxury cruise ship carrying 206 passengers has run aground off the coast of Greenland. The Ocean Explorer, a 104.4-meter (343-foot) long and 18-meter (60 foot) ship ran aground on Monday near Alpefjord in the Northeast Greenland National Park — a 375,000 square mile area that is […]
bgwalker/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 5,200 people are believed to have died in devastating floods across eastern Libya, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior said Tuesday. Another 10,000 people are believed to be missing, according to Tamer Ramadan, Libya envoy for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. “The death […]
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (LONDON) — A Dutch art detective has helped recover a missing Vincent van Gogh painting that was stolen from the Singer Laren Museum, east of Amsterdam, in March 2020. The “Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring,” painted in 1884, was stolen from the famous Dutch museum in a daring overnight smash-and-grab heist […]
Said Echarif/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (MARAKECH, Morocco) — The death toll has continued to climb in the wake of the rare and powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Morocco Friday night. More than 2,900 people are confirmed dead. The quake, Morocco’s strongest in more than a century, hit the country’s High Atlas Mountain range near […]
WIN-Initiative/Neleman/Getty Images (LONDON) — Iranian human rights activist Bahareh Hedayat is experiencing dire health issues 13 days into her hunger strike in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, making her family and friends worry about her life. She has been “grappling with severe weakness and heart palpitations” after losing about 8 kilograms, or 17 lbs, in the […]
belterz/Getty Images (LONDON) — The bulletproof train carrying Kim Jong Un arrived to its destination in Russia as the North Korean leader prepared for a summit with President Vladimir Putin, local media reported. Kim was seen disembarking from his train and being greeted by Russian officials in Khasan in the Primorsky region in video shared […]
pop_jop/Getty Images (LONDON) — The bullet-proof train carrying Kim Jong Un crossed the border into Russia as the North Korean leader made his way to a summit with President Vladimir Putin, local media reported. Russian media posted a video of the green-and-gold train traveling north in Primorye, the far-east district where Vladivostok is located. The […]
bgwalker/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 3,000 people are believed to have died in devastating floods across eastern Libya, the country’s health minister said Tuesday. Another 10,000 people are believed to be missing, according to Tamer Ramadan, Libya envoy for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. “The death toll is […]
Mustafa Unal Uysal/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Mark Dickey, 40, had been trapped inside the Morca Cave in southern Turkey’s Taurus Mountains since Aug. 31, when he fell ill more than 3,400 feet below the surface, according to the New Jersey Initial Response Team, a group he leads. “It is amazing to […]
