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The passenger who went overboard off the world’s largest cruise ship on Tuesday has been identified by his family as 19-year-old Sigmund Ropich. He went overboard from Royal Caribbean’s Wonder of the Seas off the coast of Cuba during a seven-day cruise that left from Port Canaveral, Florida, according to U.S. officials and a company […]

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel ate seafood to support the local fishing industry of Fukushima as China and South Korea continue to protest the treated nuclear wastewater discharge, which Emanuel argued was little more than economic coercion.  “If any one of the qualities of scientific rigor, international cooperation and full transparency had been adopted […]

North Korea launched several missiles Saturday following the conclusion of a U.S.-South Korea joint military exercise. The hermit kingdom fired a series of cruise missiles around 4:00 a.m. on Saturday — local time — according to the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff. “While strengthening our monitoring and vigilance, our military is maintaining a full […]

Russia has deployed the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles that President Vladimir Putin once said would make the world “think twice” for combat, its Roscosmos space agency said Friday.  “The Sarmat strategic complex has been put on combat duty,” Roscosmos general director Yuri Borisov said, Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency reported, according to the Moscow Times.  […]

Ecuadorian authorities announced Friday the release of 50 guards and seven police officers who were taken hostage for more than a day, in what the government described as a response by criminal groups to its efforts to regain control of several large correctional facilities in the South American country. The country’s corrections system, the National […]

An explosion Friday at a metal factory in the countryside of Brazil’s most populous state killed four people and seriously injured at least 30 others, officials said. Dozens of firefighters and rescue teams were sent to the site of the explosion in the city of Cabreuva, São Paulo Gov. Tarcisio de Freitas said on social […]

The man behind the burglary of items totaling in value of over $1 million was brought down after an Apple Airtag led police to his location, according to officials in the United Kingdom. Surrey Police in the United Kingdom say that 38-year-old Mari Dinjaku will face six years in prison for a string of burglaries […]

U.S. military officials have called for an end to the escalating civil war in Syria over concerns that it could lead to a resurgence of ISIS, while critics accuse some regional leaders — including those in Iran — of leaning on “ethnic” tensions to drive the fighting.  “Operation Inherent Resolve continues to closely monitor events […]

Al-Qaida-linked militants attacked an army position in northwest Syria on Friday, killing at least nine government soldiers and wounding others, opposition activists said. There was no immediate word from the government. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said nine soldiers died as well as one of the attackers, who belong […]

Clad in white shirts and carrying bouquets, children across Russia flocked back to school Friday, where the Kremlin’s narratives about the war in Ukraine and its confrontation with the West were taking an even more prominent spot than before. Students are expected each week to listen to Russia’s national anthem and watch the country’s tricolor […]