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World leaders must do more to protect the oceans, a major United Nations conference concluded on Friday, setting its sights on a new treaty to protect the high seas. “Greater ambition is required at all levels to address the dire

A series of strong earthquakes rocked southern Iran on Saturday, killing at least five people and causing damage to dozens of buildings, state media reported. The quakes, including two of magnitude 6.0, struck west of the major port city of

Trump Eyes Early 2024 Announcement as Jan. 6 Scrutiny Intensifies  The New York Times

Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon reached a record level during the first half of 2022, the INPE national space agency said Friday. The world’s largest tropical rainforest lost 3,750 square kilometers (1,450 square miles) of jungle since the beginning of

Germany condemns ‘cruel manner in which Russian aggressor takes the deaths of civilians in its stride’; witnesses say Friday’s resort town strike appeared to use cluster munitions

For as long as I can remember, I’ve felt a stifling expectation, an understood command to believe that America is great. If I could not see this nation as great, then I must be a disgruntled traitor. If I could

More than two dozen crew members are missing from a ship which snapped in half after being hit by a tropical storm.

Exhausted and depleted, Ukraine’s refugees have endured hell since the Russian invasion of their country in February 2022. According to the United Nations, at least 12 million people have fled their homes since the war began—over 5 million having gone

Ukrainian Jews fleeing the Russian invasion are taking refuge in a mansion that’s being outfitted to hold nearly 700 people with a kosher kitchen to feed hundreds more

Gantz, Lapid both said courting ex-IDF chief Eizenkot for spot on slate ahead of elections; United Torah Judaism’s Gafni calls new PM; Liberman says he could be premier