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ReutersPoles will vote for a new president on Sunday in a tight election that will have major…
The French government is cracking down on cigarettes in public, announcing a sweeping outdoor smoking ban that aims to clear the air for the next generation of Parisians (and everyone else).
Beginning July 1, France will ban smoking in a wide…
An Argentine court on Thursday declared a mistrial in the case of seven health professionals accused of negligence in the death of soccer legend Diego Maradona, the latest soap-operatic turn in the trial that has transfixed the soccer…
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A man remained missing on Thursday following a massive landslide that engulfed a village in southern Switzerland.
The Birch glacier in Switzerland’s southern Wallis region crumpled on Wednesday, with the resulting landslide of rock and ice…
Efforts to bring peace to Ukraine just received a stifling blow. German Chancellor Fredrich Merz, with less than a month in office, has stepped forward to set back the US sponsored peace initiative.
Trump wants to bring Ukraine and…
Britain has hardened its position toward Israel over its conduct of the war in Gaza. But as it weighs the next possible step — imposing sanctions on Israeli ministers — it confronts a complex landscape, not least because of the recent deadly…
A Pierce County man is one of a handful of immigrants who were put on a deportation flight to South Sudan last week.
His deportation is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to deport immigrants to “third countries” —…
Washington has yet to formally reopen its embassy in Syria, which closed in 2012 after protests the government of strongman President Bashar al-Assad was met with brutal crackdown, kickstarting the country’s civil war.