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Voyager 1, the trailblazing spacecraft that has been hurtling through the vast expanse of space for 46 years, has encountered a technical glitch, resulting in t

The Senate’s decision to block the supplemental funding bill that included Ukraine aid was not a surprise to anyone who has watched the chamber’s recent rhythm

Lima, Peru – The release of Alberto Fujimori from prison this week does not rewrite his presidency's ledger. It merely reopens it. For Peruvians, the balance sh

China has officially announced the start of commercial operations for the world's first fourth-generation nuclear reactor at the Shidao Bay Nuclear Power Plant,

Sandra Day O'Connor, the trailblazing jurist who made history as the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, passed away on December 1,...

As of November 28, 2023, Henry Kissinger, the renowned American diplomat, political scientist, and politician, is nearing the end of his life. With a career...

For South Korea, the December 1 launch of its first military reconnaissance satellite from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California was not just a technical su

Eunice Brookman-Amissah stood in a Stockholm ceremony hall on November 29, 2023, accepting an award that carries the weight of lives saved. The Ghanaian physici

The search for twelve missing crew members of the sunken cargo ship "Raptor" continued off the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday, with little hope of finding sur

For a fraction of a second on November 24, 2023, a single particle carrying the energy of a brick dropped from waist height slammed into the Utah desert. The Te

HONÓRIO GURGEL, Rio de Janeiro — Before she was the Queen of Brazilian Pop, before the MTV Europe Music Awards stacked up eight deep, before she became the Braz

On November 22, 2023, in Palestine, Hamas agreed to release 50 hostages from Gaza in exchange for a four-day ceasefire with Israel and the release…

According to Portuguese Wikipedia and local-language media reports, Brazilian pop star Anitta, whose real name is Larissa de Macedo Machado, has been making waves in...

The World Health Organization has requested detailed information from China regarding a surge in respiratory diseases and pneumonia clusters among children in n

Managua is now formally out of the Organization of American States. The paperwork went through on November 19, 2023. That date caps years of worsening relations

The Houthi rebels have issued a provocative statement, with spokesman Yahya Sarea declaring the group's intention to target ships owned or operated by Israeli c

The situation in Gaza has reached a critical point, with Médecins Sans Frontières warning that hospitals in the region will become "a morgue if action isn't tak

Ahead of the COP28 summit, a significant gathering of global faith leaders took place on November 6-7, 2023, in Abu Dhabi, with the aim of...

For the first time in over a millennium, magma has broken the surface near Iwo Jima. The eruption on November 3 produced a new island, a fleeting scrap of land

Iran's warning to Israel over a Gaza invasion does not happen in a vacuum. The country that issued it is vast, old, and complicated — home to more than 92 milli

Thousands of people gathered in Chile's capital Santiago on October 27 to protest against Israel's military actions in Gaza, as tensions in the Middle East cont

A devastating wave of bushfires is sweeping through the Darling Downs in Queensland, Australia, leaving a trail of destruction and loss in its wake. As of today

The Green Credit Programme, launched by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on October 15, 2023, is not a bolt from the blue. It is the domes

Meteorologists had it wrong. That is the cold, uncomfortable fact at the heart of the Hurricane Otis disaster. Days before it slammed into Acapulco, the offici