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A serious heat wave continues to ravage Europe, hitting near-record temperatures in some parts along the Mediterranean coast as officials issue safety warnings.  “Repeated high nighttime temperatures are particularly dangerous for human health because the body is unable to recover from sustained heat,” John Nairn, senior extreme heat adviser for the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization […]

Russia launched a massive strike on Ukrainian grain and export infrastructure after pulling out of an international grain deal that allowed Ukraine to export across the Black Sea. Russian missiles and drones hit targets along Ukraine’s Black Sea coast overnight and into Wednesday morning, with an Odesa military spokesperson calling the strikes a “truly massive […]

Russia unleashed intense drone and missile attacks overnight Wednesday, damaging critical port infrastructure in southern Ukraine, including grain and oil terminals, and wounding at least 12 people, officials said. The bombardment crippled significant parts of grain export facilities in Odesa and nearby Chornomorsk and destroyed 60,000 tons of grain, according to Ukraine’s Agriculture Ministry. It […]

A tourist who saw a plainclothes American soldier sprint across the South Korean border into North Korea initially thought it was a stunt. New Zealander Sarah Leslie and her father were part of a tour group that departed from Seoul Tuesday morning to visit the Military Demarcation Line separating the two countries. In an interview […]

An Australian sailor who said he survived on raw fish and rainwater while adrift at sea for months with his dog has revealed what his first meal will be after returning ashore Tuesday. Timothy Shaddock, 54, disembarked from the Mexican tuna boat María Delia that rescued him and his pup, Bella, in the Pacific Ocean and […]

Vacationers on Spain’s famed Ibiza island are being turned away from a beach after the discovery of high levels of fecal matter in the water.  The local city council closed the beach at Playa Es Pinet this week after water tests from the beach’s cove found an amount of fecal matter that “exceeded” approved safety […]

The North Korean military fired two short-range missiles into the ocean on Wednesday as an apparent show of force after the U.S. deployed a nuclear-capable submarine to South Korea.  The two missiles are only the latest in a series fired by the hermit kingdom amid protestations against U.S. presence in the region and insistence that […]

Eleven workers were killed early Wednesday after a portion of the outer wall of a sprawling compound collapsed after being weakened by rains near an under-construction bridge on the outskirts of Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, police and rescue officials said. The wall fell while the workers sat inside their roadside tents at the construction site. Prime […]

The mother of U.S. Army Pvt. Travis King – the American soldier who remains detained in North Korea Wednesday after crossing into the country during a tour of the DMZ – reportedly has said, “I can’t see Travis doing anything like that.”  Claudine Gates of Racine, Wisconsin, who was identified by ABC News as the […]

The leader of the United Kingdom’s Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6, gave a rare speech in Prague Wednesday during which he encouraged Russians opposed to the war in Ukraine to spy for the British, telling any defectors from the Kremlin, “Our door is always open.” “There are many Russians today who are silently […]