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Leader Kim Jong Un’s propaganda machine is turning off the vitriol and turning on the charm.

A map of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has killed at least 1 million globally. (Image credit: NPR)

China is rolling out new measures to help seniors, as the coronavirus pandemic exacerbates the digital divide for its rapidly aging population.

Suspect killed, 2 U.S. Marshals wounded in Bronx shootout, sources say  NBC News Multiple U.S. Marshals injured in shootout with suspect in New York  WPTV News – FL Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast What We Know About Andre Sterling, the Mass. Fugitive

With Knesset on brink of new elections, Blue and White chief says new vote preferable to gov’t paralysis: ‘I’m afraid Netanyahu is more concerned with his trial than his country’

3 US Marshals hurt in New York City shootout: reports  Fox News Multiple U.S. Marshals injured in shootout with suspect in New York  WPTV News – FL Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast Suspect in state trooper’s shooting is killed and two US

Authorities in Bangladesh have begun relocating thousands of Rohingya refugees to an isolated island despite calls by human rights groups for a halt to the process.

Three US Marshals are injured and fugitive is shot dead in early morning Bronx shootout  Daily Mail

Conservationists in Ecuador have found a nest of endangered leatherback sea turtles, a whopper of a species that can weigh up to a tonne and be three meters (10 feet) long. Also known as the lute turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), it

Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins and other luminaries have formed a new crowd-funding fellowship to raise $6 million to buy the Oxford home of “The Lord of the Rings” author J.R.R. Tolkien. Actors Ian McKellen and Martin Freeman, stars of Peter Jackson’s