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Iran executes 2 more men detained amid nationwide protests
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran said it executed two men Saturday convicted of allegedly killing a paramilitary volunteer...
White House, Democrats revel in GOP ‘disarray’ as McCarthy speakership bid flounders
WASHINGTON — Asked during a Tuesday briefing about House Republicans’ ongoing struggle to elect a speaker, White House press secretary...
Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham dead at 90
Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA's Apollo program, died Tuesday in...
More than 60,000 view Benedict XVI’s body at Vatican
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI ’s body, his head resting on a pair of crimson pillows, lay...
Israeli army kills 2 Palestinians in West Bank confrontation
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces killed two Palestinians, including a man claimed by an armed group as a...
Moscow says Ukrainian rocket strike kills 63 Russian troops
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces fired rockets at a facility in the eastern Donetsk region where Russian soldiers were...
Abduction, torture, rape: Conflict in Congo worsens, says UN
The accounts are haunting. Abductions, torture, rapes. Scores of civilians including women and children have been killed by the M23...
Pope’s lament: Icy winds of war buffet humanity at Christmas
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis used his Christmas message Sunday to lament the “icy winds of war” buffeting humanity...
‘Tired of this war’: Congolese cope with M23 rebel violence
BENI, Congo (AP) — Kavira Mathe was making dinner for her two sons when bullets began flying. Eastern Congo’s M23...
Trump seeks White House again amid GOP losses, legal probes
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched his third campaign for the White House just one week after a disappointing...