Nicholas Paphitis, Associated Press | Posted April 16 - 8:34 p.m.
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The flame for the Paris Olympics will be officially lit Tuesday at the birthplace of the ancient games, and will then be carried through Greece for 11 days before being handed over to Paris organizers on April 26.
Mark Baker and Rod Mcguirk, Associated Press | Posted April 16 - 6:31 p.m.
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A teenager has been accused of wounding a Christian bishop and priest during a church service in a second high-profile knife attack to rock Sydney in recent days, leaving communities on edge, leaders calling for calm and a besieged church urging against retaliation.
Sophia Tareen, Associated Press | Posted April 15 - 4:01 p.m.
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators blocked a freeway leading to three Chicago O'Hare International Airport terminals, temporarily stopping vehicle traffic into one of the nation's busiest airports.
Lolita C. Baldor and Farnoush Amiri, Associated Press | Posted April 15 - 11:55 a.m.
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A new review says the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed U.S. troops — including one from Utah — and Afghans in August 2021 was not preventable, and the "bald man in black" spotted by U.S. service members the morning of the attack was not the bomber.
Mark Baker And Rod Mcguirk, Associated Press | Posted April 15 - 8:15 a.m.
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Police say a man has been arrested after a bishop and three churchgoers were stabbed in Sydney. Police say it occurred during a televised service on Monday.
Rick Rycroft And Keiran Smith, Associated Press | Posted April 14 - 5:25 p.m.
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A police officer and several bystanders are being hailed for running "towards danger" to confront the attacker who stabbed and killed six people at a suburban Sydney shopping center.
James Mackenzie, Parisa Hafezi and Jeff Mason, Reuters | Posted April 14 - 9:32 a.m.
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Iran warned Israel and the U.S. on Sunday of a much larger response if there is any retaliation for its mass drone and missile attack on Israeli territory overnight, as Israel said "the campaign is not over yet."
Associated Press | Updated April 14 - 7:44 a.m.
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Berlin's zoo is celebrating the 67th birthday of Fatou the gorilla, its oldest resident, who it believes is also the oldest gorilla in the world. Fatou was born in 1957 and came to the zoo in what was then West Berlin in 1959.
Didi Tang and Dake Kang, Associated Press | Posted April 13 - 9:57 p.m.
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The imbalance in the U.S.-China relationship extends beyond trade to the world of higher education. These days, only about 700 American students are studying at Chinese universities, while there are nearly 300,000 Chinese students at U.S. schools.
Josef Federman and Jon Gambrell, Associated Press | Updated April 13 - 9:00 p.m.
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Booms and air raid sirens have sounded across Israel after Iran launched hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles in an unprecedented revenge mission that pushes the Middle East closer to a regionwide war.
Associated Press | Posted April 13 - 4:50 p.m.
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The last of 174 people stranded in cable cars high above a mountain in southern Turkey have been rescued. They were brought down nearly 23 hours after one pod hit a pole and burst open, killing one person and injuring seven when they plummeted to the rocks below.
Laurie Kellman, Associated Press | Posted April 13 - 10:51 a.m.
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In the age of Google Earth, watches that triangulate and cars with built-in GPS, there's something about a globe — a spherical representation of the world in miniature — that somehow endures.
Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali, Reuters | Posted April 10 - 5:33 p.m.
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The top U.S. general in Europe told Congress on Wednesday that Ukraine will run out of artillery shells and air defense interceptors "in fairly short order" without U.S. support, leaving them vulnerable to a partial or total defeat.