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Mexico, Chile and Uruguay halt poultry imports from Brazil after bird flu outbreak
Mexico, Chile and Uruguay have halted poultry imports from Brazil after the country confirmed its first bird flu outbreak on ...
Walz calls Trump a ‘tyrant’ who is trampling Americans’ rights and violating the rule of law
Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota assailed Donald Trump in a law school graduation speech Saturday, accusing the ...
No pilot for 10 minutes during a Lufthansa flight in 2024 because of fainting incident, report says
A Lufthansa flight to Spain last year went without a pilot for 10 minutes after the co-pilot fainted while he was alone in ...
No, there’s no such thing as heat lightning
We’ve likely all heard of the term “heat lightning” on a summer evening when those strong bolts of electricity can be seen, ...
Trump warns Walmart: Don’t raise prices due to my tariffs but do eat the costs from those taxes
President Donald Trump on Saturday ripped into Walmart, saying on social media that the retail giant should eat the ...
Kristen Stewart was always ready to direct
Kristen Stewart has been talking about directing as long as she’s been acting. Not many people encouraged it. “I spoke to ...
Vatican could be a venue for Russia-Ukraine talks, Rubio says, after pope renews an offer to help
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday that the Vatican could be a venue for Russia-Ukraine peace talks, taking up ...
Colombia seeks to join China-based development bank as Latin America drifts away from Washington
Colombia’s government has applied to join a China-based development bank, another sign of Latin America’s drift away from the ...
Arab leaders promise to work on reconstruction of Gaza and press for a ceasefire
Arab leaders at an annual summit in Baghdad called Saturday for an immediate end to Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip and to allow aid into the Palestinian territories ...
The old slang term ’86’ probably started as restaurant-worker jargon. Suddenly it’s in the news
The slang term at the center of a political brouhaha swirling around former FBI Director James Comey is an old one, likely ...
Hundreds of Rwandans who fled to Congo after the 1994 genocide return in UN repatriation
Hundreds of Rwandan refugees who were living in eastern Congo since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda were repatriated on Saturday, the U.N. refugee agency said, after Rwandan-backed ...
A second suspect has been arrested over fires targeting UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s properties
A second suspect was arrested Saturday on arson charges in connection with a series of fires targeting property linked to U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, police said. A 26-year-old ...