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Israeli ground forces reached their deepest point in Lebanon since they invaded six weeks ago, before pulling back early Saturday after fierce battles with Hezbollah militants, Lebanese state media reported....
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Eight people were killed and 17 others injured in a stabbing attack at a vocational school in the eastern Chinese city of Yixing on Saturday, police say....
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Gabon is holding a referendum on a new constitution, more than one year after mutinous soldiers seized power in the oil-rich Central African nation....
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Javier Milei's Argentina cast the sole vote against a non-binding UN resolution that denounced violence against women and girls. ...
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Donald Trump's choice of Matt Gaetz to be attorney general has many U.S. Justice Department employees reeling, worried not only about their own jobs but the future of the agency that the Trump loyalist has railed against....
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King Arthur, a figure so imbued with beauty and potential that even across the pond, JFK's presidency was referred to as Camelot — Arthur’s mythical court. But was there a real man behind the myth? Or is he just our platonic ideal of a hero — a respectful king, in today's parlance?...
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A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule from the Biden administration that would have expanded access to overtime pay to millions more salaried workers across the U.S....
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A gold pocket watch given to the ship captain who rescued 700 survivors from the Titanic sold at auction for nearly US$2 million, setting a record for memorabilia from the ship wreck....
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The 2024 presidential election featured sky-high turnout, approaching the historic levels of the 2020 contest and contradicting long-held conventional political wisdom that Republicans struggle to win races in which many people vote....
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Tulsi Gabbard, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the U.S. intelligence services, in 2022 endorsed one of Russia's main justifications for invading Ukraine: the existence of dozens of U.S.-funded biolabs working on some of the world's nastiest pathogens....