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Coca cultivation reached an all-time high in Colombia last year, the U.N. said, as the administration of President Gustavo Petro struggles to reduce poverty in remote areas and contain armed groups that are profiting from the cocaine trade. The new findings on coca growing were published over the weekend by the United Nations Office on […]

An American climber who spent more than a week trapped in one of the world’s deepest caves has been rescued, officials said.  Mark Dickey, a 40-year-old experienced caver, became seriously ill with stomach bleeding more than 3,000 feet below the Morca cave in southern Turkey’s Taurus Mountains on September 2. Hundreds of people from the […]

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un reportedly arrived in Russia Tuesday ahead of an expected meeting with President Vladimir Putin, officials said. The two leaders, flanked by their top military officials, are set to negotiate a potential arms deal to help resupply Moscow’s military drained by its war in Ukraine. North Korea may have tens of […]

The small town of Levira, Portugal was on the verge of an environmental disaster on Monday after two holding tanks containing nearly 600,000 gallons of red wine burst, sending a crimson tide of fermented grape juice into the streets and toward a waterway. Videos making the rounds online showed wine flowing through the streets of […]

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is currently stuck in India after his aircraft experienced a technical issue, according to his office. Trudeau was attempting to leave India on Sunday after the Group of 20 summit in New Delhi when the Canadian Armed Forces discovered a mechanical issue, CTV News reported.  “Upon our departure for the […]

Canadian federal prosecutors argued that a man facing murder charges in the deaths of four members of a Muslim family was motivated by white nationalist beliefs as they branded the attack an act of terrorism. Nathaniel Veltman, 22, is accused of deliberately hitting five members of the Afzaal family with his truck while they were […]

Six people have been fatally shot in an attack at a seaside town near Athens, Greek police said Monday, and a state-run TV broadcaster said authorities suspected it was a gangland shooting. GREEK FLOODS NOW BELIEVED TO HAVE KILLED 10; 4 STILL MISSING A police statement said the bodies were discovered Monday evening in Artemida, […]

The death toll in Morocco rose to more than 2,800 on Monday, just three days after the country’s deadliest earthquake sent people scouring through rubble from buildings hoping to find survivors. The catastrophic and rare magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck the North African country late Friday night, with an epicenter near Ighil, a town in the […]

Sri Lanka’s president said Sunday he will appoint a committee chaired by a retired Supreme Court judge to investigate allegations made in a British television report that the South Asian country’s intelligence was complicit in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people. The attacks, which included simultaneous suicide bombings, targeted three churches and […]

Authorities in North Macedonia say a migrant was electrocuted as he tried to descend from the roof of a train carriage. The man in his 30s died instantly early Sunday when he touched a cable during an attempt to descend from the roof of a freight train container near the central town of Gradsko. Police […]