Category: 4. World

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A helicopter crash has killed all eight people on board, including the nation’s defence and environment ministers, according to Ghana’s government.

Defence Minister Edward Omane Boamah and Environment Minister…

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international correspondents share snapshots of moments from their lives and work around the world.

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A rat the size of a cat was found inside a home in the United Kingdom, and local representatives say the animal is part of a growing problem in the area.

The fire, which broke out on Tuesday, is still advancing and has crossed 15 communes in the Corbières massif, where pine forests and low vegetation continue to burn.

An elderly woman was found dead in her home in…

Looking out over the skyline of Hiroshima, 96-year-old Junji Sarashina points out places from his childhood.

“That was my grade school. Not too far from here,” he tells his granddaughter, showing her around the area.

Sarashina was 16 years old…

After 22 months of Israel’s war on Palestinians in Gaza, something changed in the last week.

Israeli human rights groups and scholars for the first time called the bombardment and siege of the Palestinian territory a genocide. The…

Two memos recently shared on social media show that the Army’s 197th Infantry Brigade commander briefly banned “bay tossing” by drill sergeants before rescinding the order a short time later.

Bay tossing — a practice in which drill…

WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned three high-ranking members and one prominent associate of the Mexico-based Cartel del Noreste (CDN), formerly known as Los Zetas. …