AMRITSAR, India -- A gas leak killed 11 people in India on Sunday, an official said, in the latest deadly industrial accident in the vast developing economy of 1.4 billion people. The gas leak happened in Giaspura, an industrial area of Ludhiana in the northern state of Punjab. National Disaster...
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand's treasured kiwi birds are shuffling around Wellington's verdant hills for the first time in a century, after a drive to eliminate invasive predators from the capital's surrounds. Visitors to New Zealand a millennium ago would have encountered a bona fide...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Washington's political and media elites observe their annual truce -- of a few hours -- Saturday at the White House Correspondents Association dinner, where President Joe Biden will find himself the butt of jokes and hit back with his own. The ritual is a landmark on the...
UMAN, Ukraine -- Russian strikes battered cities across Ukraine on Friday, killing 26 people including five children, as Kyiv said preparations for a counter-offensive against Moscow's forces were nearly complete. The deadly new attacks included a strike on a residential block in the historic city...
LACONIA, United States - Nine months before the first 2024 US presidential primary, Donald Trump's onetime UN envoy Nikki Haley is barnstorming early-voting New Hampshire, one of several Republicans scrambling to dent the huge poll lead of the nomination front-runner. BEDFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - APRIL...
BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Pope Francis called for a recovery of the European spirit and a rejection of "adolescent belligerence" amid rising nationalism and war in Ukraine, during his visit to Budapest Friday. The pontiff's three-day trip started with a meeting with Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose...
WASHINGTON, United States -- A 13-year-old American boy became a hero by managing to safely stop a school bus carrying dozens of kids when the driver lost consciousness. The drama unfolded Wednesday in the northern state of Michigan, when a teenager named Dillon Reeves got up and grabbed the...
BRASILIA, Brazil -- Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday decreed six new Indigenous reserves, including a vast Amazon territory, after a freeze in such expansion under his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro. Under the decrees, Indigenous people are guaranteed exclusive use of...
