Jakarta Airport Halts Flights Due to Anak Krakatoa Ash Cloud
Jakarta’s main gateway, Soekarno‑Hatta International Airport, halted all take‑offs and landings on Thursday afternoon after a plume of volcanic ash from An
Tucson Police Determine Homophobic Motive in Deadly Iron Horse Shooting
A police investigation in Tucson, Arizona, has concluded that the shooting outside the popular LGBTQ‑friendly bar The Iron Horse on May 2 was driven by hom
Russia and Ukraine agree temporary cease‑fire on capitals amid US‑brokered talks
Russia and Ukraine announced on Tuesday that they would suspend offensive strikes against each other’s capitals—Kyiv and Moscow—while a United States‑media
Russian missile strike on Bucha outskirts kills two civilians, damages apartments
A Russian missile strike on the outskirts of Bucha in Kyiv Oblast on Tuesday killed two civilians and caused extensive damage to a cluster of apartment blo
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Israeli jets kill four civilians in Marjayoun, Lebanon, wounding twenty
Israeli jets struck a residential area in the Lebanese town of Marjayoun on Saturday, killing four civilians and wounding twenty more, officials in Beirut
Russian airstrike on Kami‑Kamianske kills four civilians, injures five
A Russian airstrike struck the industrial city of Kami Kamianske in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region on Tuesday, killing four civilians and wounding five ot
U.S. forces sink three IRGC‑linked oil tankers after missile attacks.
U.S. Central Command announced on Thursday that its forces destroyed three oil tankers it identified as being operated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guar
Mudslide in Jiangxi's Suichuan County kills one, leaves 11 missing
A mudslide on Tuesday night in Suichuan County, Jiangxi province, killed a resident and left eleven people unaccounted for after the torrent of earth and w
Bus crash on Cape Verde's Fogo Island kills 21 schoolchildren
A bus transporting 48 secondary‑school students and a driver crashed on the winding road that descends the slopes of Fogo Island in Cape Verde on Tuesday a
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Jakarta Airport Halts Flights Due to Anak Krakatoa Ash Cloud
Jakarta’s main gateway, Soekarno‑Hatta International Airport, halted all take‑offs and landings on Thursday afternoon after a plume of volcanic ash from An
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Russian airstrike on Kami‑Kamianske kills four civilians, injures five
A Russian airstrike struck the industrial city of Kami Kamianske in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region on Tuesday, killing four civilians and wounding five ot
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U.S. forces sink three IRGC‑linked oil tankers after missile attacks.
U.S. Central Command announced on Thursday that its forces destroyed three oil tankers it identified as being operated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guar
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Mudslide in Jiangxi's Suichuan County kills one, leaves 11 missing
A mudslide on Tuesday night in Suichuan County, Jiangxi province, killed a resident and left eleven people unaccounted for after the torrent of earth and w
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Bus crash on Cape Verde's Fogo Island kills 21 schoolchildren
A bus transporting 48 secondary‑school students and a driver crashed on the winding road that descends the slopes of Fogo Island in Cape Verde on Tuesday a
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Fuel tanker explosion on Iran's Hamedan‑Sanandaj highway kills ten
A tanker truck carrying fuel exploded on the Hamedan–Sanandaj highway in western Iran on Tuesday, killing ten people and wounding six others. The blast, wh
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Hundreds of Thousands Protest in Zagreb Over Illegal Hazardous Waste Dump in Gospić
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Zagreb’s central square on Saturday, chanting for the removal of roughly 37,000 tonnes of hazardous waste that
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Lance Stroll Sets Record with 100th Q1 Elimination at Monza
Lance Stroll, the Canadian driver for Aston Martin, became the first Formula One competitor to be eliminated in the first qualifying session (Q1) a hundred
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