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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK – Ghislaine Maxwell has been put on suicide watch at a Brooklyn jail, and may seek to delay her Tuesday sentencing for aiding Jeffrey Epstein’s …

By Tom Balmforth and Marko Djurica KYIV/POKROVSK, Ukraine -Russian forces fully occupied the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk on Saturday, both sides said, confirming Kyiv’s biggest battlefield setback for more …

By Tim Reid LOS ANGELES – The Utah branch of Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit on Saturday seeking to block the state’s abortion ban, which came into effect on Friday …

LONDON -Monkeypox is not yet a global health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) ruled on Saturday, although WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was deeply concerned about the …

By Andrew MacAskill KIGALI – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday he aims to remain in power until the middle of the next decade, despite calls for him …

By Terje Solsvik and Gwladys Fouche OSLO -Terrified revellers at a gay bar in Oslo hid in a basement and desperately called loved ones as a gunman went on the …

By Ahmed Eljechtimi and Graham Keeley RABAT/MADRID -Dozens of migrants were pictured lying by a Moroccan border fence, some bleeding and many apparently lifeless, in video showing the aftermath of …

By Ayenat Mersie KIGALI -The newly-expanded Commonwealth made broad commitments on Saturday to address climate change and boost trade, concluding a summit aimed at shoring up the relevance of a …

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI – Iran’s indirect talks with the United States on reviving the 2015 nuclear pact will resume soon, the Iranian foreign minister said on Saturday amid a …

BERLIN -Some 4,000 people marched in Munich on Saturday calling on leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized countries to take action to fight poverty, climate change and world hunger …

By Andrea Shalal and Trevor Hunnicutt ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE -President Joe Biden, who is weighing unilateral actions to counter an “extreme” ruling ending the U.S. right to abortion, nonetheless …

By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – Abortion is now front and center in November’s key governor’s races in Pennsylvania and Michigan, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. …

By Philip Pullella (Reuters) – Anti-abortion activists should be concerned with other issues that can threaten life, such as easy access to guns, poverty and rising maternity mortality rates, the …

By Nicolas Delame and Mimosa Spencer PARIS – French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on Saturday she is backing a parliamentary bill to add abortion rights to the country’s constitution. …

By Kuba Stezycki and Joanna Plucinska WARSAW -Thousands of Poles and Ukrainians are walking for peace and demanding an end to discrimination against the LGBT+ community on Saturday, in a …

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE – The Group of Seven wealthy countries will address what they see as China’s use of forced labor and intellectual property theft and other issues, the …

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE – The White House said on Saturday that it is horrified by shooting in Oslo targeting the LGBT community and that it stands in solidarity with …

By Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Charlotte Greenfield KABUL -Vital medical supplies reached hospitals on Saturday in the remote area of Afghanistan hit by an earthquake that killed more than 1,000 …

DUBAI – European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell met Iran’s top diplomat on Saturday, Iranian state TV reported, as the bloc seeks to break an impasse between Tehran and …

By Michael Erman NEW YORK – Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE said on Saturday that a booster dose of updated versions of their COVID-19 vaccine, modified specifically to combat the …

By David Shepardson (Reuters) -The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screened 2.45 million air passengers on Friday, the highest daily number since February 2020. The number was however below the …

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court’s blockbuster rulings on successive days that eliminated the right to abortion nationwide and widened the rights of gun owners illustrate how …

SCHILLING: Roe’s Demise Is A Victory For The Family Terry Schilling on June 24, 2022 Roe v. Wade is dead. It is difficult to overstate the momentousness of this occasion. …

Biden Admin Expands ‘Critical Habitats’ For Endangered Species To Include Lands They No Longer Live In Jack McEvoy on June 24, 2022 The Biden administration is extending the Endangered Species …

Pro-Abortion Protester Tries To Inspire Revolution By Scaling Small Bridge Jennie Taer on June 24, 2022 A man climbed to the top of a bridge in Washington, D.C. to protest …