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By Madeline Chambers and Riham Alkousaa BERLIN/BAD AROLSEN, Germany -A 29-year-old man drove into a crowd of people in Berlin on Wednesday, killing a teacher and injuring 14 of her …

ATHENS – A Greek court on Wednesday overturned an earlier court ruling that allowed the confiscation by the United States of part of a cargo of Iranian oil on an …

By Lisandra Paraguassu and Anthony Boadle LOS ANGELES/BRASILIA – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden have never seen eye-to-eye, but they have agreed to an awkward, …

(Reuters) – Harvard President Lawrence Bacow said on Wednesday that he would leave his post in June 2023 after helping shepherd the nation’s oldest university through the COVID pandemic. Bacow, …

By Pavel Polityuk and Abdelaziz Boumzar KYIV/SLOVIANSK, Ukraine – Ukrainian forces pulled back to the outskirts of the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk on Wednesday in the face of a fierce …

By Francois Murphy VIENNA/DUBAI -Iran has begun further expanding its underground uranium enrichment and said on Wednesday it would switch off two of the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s cameras, as the …

(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it was awarding $215 million in first-year funding as part of reviving the erstwhile Obama administration’s Cancer Moonshot …

(Reuters) – A police officer hurt by Donald Trump supporters trying to overturn his election defeat and a filmmaker who recorded some leaders of the U.S. Capitol riot will be …

(Reuters) – A scorching heat wave was expected to blanket the U.S. Southwest beginning on Wednesday and push temperatures over 100 degrees F for the rest of week, leading forecasters …

WASHINGTON -The U.S. Senate Banking Committee voted on Wednesday to advance the nomination of Michael Barr to serve as the Federal Reserve’s top regulatory official. By a vote of 17 …

By James Oliphant (Reuters) -San Francisco voters on Tuesday recalled the California city’s district attorney, Chesa Boudin, a progressive Democrat who instituted criminal justice reform, in a nationally watched test …

Parents Flee The Public School System As Charter Schools See Surge In Enrollment Reagan Reese on June 8, 2022 Enrollment in New York City schools is dropping while charter schools …

By Benoit Nyemba KINSHASA -Belgium’s King Philippe reaffirmed his deepest regrets on Wednesday for the exploitation, racism and acts of violence during his country’s colonisation of the Democratic Republic of …

By Charlotte Campenhout and Bate Felix BRUSSELS/DAKAR – Belgium’s King Philippe is on his first visit to former colony Democratic Republic of Congo, where many remain angry at Belgium’s failure …

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE – Climate will be an “important topic of discussion” between the United States and Brazil during the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, U.S. national …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell on Thursday will convene a classified briefing with Pentagon officials and Intel Corp’s chief executive for lawmakers negotiating a compromise measure …

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO -A power sector union in Sri Lanka said on Wednesday it will go on an indefinite strike from midnight in protest against new government legislation, potentially …

LONDON -British prosecutors said on Wednesday they had authorised charges to be brought against former Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein on two counts of indecent assault against a woman 26 …

By Andy Sullivan (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department will review the law-enforcement response to a gunman’s killing of 19 pupils and two teachers on May 24 at a school …

By Mrinalika Roy and Jennifer Rigby LONDON -There have been more than 1,000 monkeypox cases reported to the World Health Organization in the current outbreak outside the countries in Africa …

By Pavel Polityuk and Tuvan Gumrukcu KYIV/ANKARA -Turkish efforts to ease a global food crisis by negotiating safe passage for grain stuck in Black Sea ports met resistance as Ukraine …

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday nixed a Washington state bed-and-breakfast owner’s lawsuit accusing a Border Patrol agent of civil rights violations during a violent …

By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON -The U.S. Interior Department said on Wednesday it will phase out single-use plastic products on public lands by 2032, including in national parks, in a move …

(This June 6 story corrects to reflect President Salvador Jorge Blanco was in office from 1982-1986, not 2002-2006) SANTO DOMINGO – The Dominican Republic’s environment minister, Orlando Jorge Mera, was …

When her mom started an argument on Memorial Day that turned into a fist fight, her 10-year-old daughter reached into her mom’s backpack and pulled a gun. According to Reuters, …