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A U.S. national on a tour to the joint security area between North and South Korea crossed the Military Demarcation Line without authorization and is now believed to be in detained in North Korea, the U.N. Command announced Tuesday. “A U.S. National on a JSA orientation tour crossed, without authorization, the Military Demarcation Line into […]

A woman was attacked Monday morning by a pack of dingoes while on a run on the Australian island of K’gari, which is in the Queensland region, according to authorities. The 24-year-old woman, whose name was not released, was jogging in the Orchid Beach area when four dingoes began to pursue her, according to News.com.au. […]

Five people were killed and eight others were injured Monday when a Cessna 208 plane crashed into a hangar at a skydiving center during bad weather, authorities said. The plane’s pilot and four people sheltering in the hangar from stormy weather died in the afternoon crash in Chrcynno in central Poland, firefighters spokesperson Monika Nowakowska-Brynda […]

Israel announced Monday it was recognizing Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, joining the United States as the only countries to acknowledge the kingdom’s annexation of the disputed North African territory. The announcement came shortly after Morocco’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying King Mohammed VI had received a letter from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recognizing […]

Special Climate Envoy John Kerry arrived in China Sunday ahead of planned “in-depth” talks on climate change with the country’s communist government. “We need genuine cooperation,” Kerry said ahead of the trip last week, according to the New York Times. “China and the United States are the two largest economies in the world and we’re […]

Leaders of the six Western Balkan countries met informally Monday in the Albanian capital, Tirana, to prepare for a summit on progress toward European Union integration, known as the Berlin Process. At an informal lunch, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama welcomed his counterparts from Montenegro, Serbia and North Macedonia, together with EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver […]

Members of two left-leaning Dutch political parties have overwhelmingly voted to join forces ahead of a November general election in an attempt to unify their side of the Netherlands’ splintered political spectrum, they said Monday. Green Left and the Labor Party officials said a week-long referendum among their members showed both parties strongly backed a […]

Taiwan’s Vice President Lai Ching-te, who is running for president next year, is to visit the United States next month, and the Biden administration is reportedly attempting to downplay the “transit” stop in order to stave off condemnation from Beijing. At a press conference Monday, Taiwan’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Tah-ray Yui revealed […]

Kenyan authorities seized a smuggled shipment of medication which can be used by athletes as performance-enhancing drugs, the country’s national anti-doping body said on Monday. A woman was arrested on suspicion of smuggling and will appear in court this week, the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya said. She was arrested at Jomo Kenyatta Airport in Nairobi […]

Greek authorities issued evacuation orders for at least six seaside communities Monday as wildfires threatened vacation homes near Athens, with gusts of wind up to 45 mph pushing flames through hillside scrub and pine forests parched by extreme heat. Water-dropping planes and helicopters tackled the flames near Lagonisi, some 25 miles southeast of the capital, […]