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World News

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Updated 13 hours, 47 minutes ago

Putin extends rule in preordained Russian election after harshest crackdown since Soviet era

The election was “neither free nor fair in any sort of way,” said Nigel Gould-Davies, a senior fellow at the Inter…

Updated 3 days, 13 hours ago
McDonald's apologizes for global system outage that shut down some stores for hours

The company said the outage also wasn't related to its shift to Google Cloud as a technology provider

Updated 4 days, 12 hours ago
What's Pi Day all about? Math, science, pies and more

Pi can calculate the circumference of a circle by measuring the diameter — the distance straight across the circle's middle — and multiplying that by the 3.14-…

Updated 5 days, 12 hours ago
Putin warns again that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty is threatened

He also noted that he doesn’t think that the world is heading for a nuclear war, describing U.S. President Joe Biden as a veteran politician who fully understa…

Updated 6 days, 12 hours ago
Kate's 'photogate' scandal shows that relations between royals and the press rarely run smoothly

The palace issued the image of Kate and her children — Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis — on Sunday to mark Mother’s Day in Britain

Updated 1 week, 3 days ago
Kyoto's picturesque geisha district fights back against over-tourism with keep-out signs

In a city known for gorgeous temples and gardens, Gion is one of its most scenic and historical spots

Updated 1 week, 4 days ago
Analysis: First fatal attack on shipping by Yemen's Houthi rebels escalates risk for reeling Mideast

Wednesday's attack underlines the danger to those not even involved in the war

Updated 1 week, 4 days ago
Analysis: First fatal attack on shipping by Yemen's Houthi rebels escalates risk for reeling Mideast

Wednesday's attack underlines the danger to those not even involved in the war

Updated 1 week, 5 days ago
Europe's Digital Markets Act is forcing tech giants to make changes. Here's what that will look like

The new rules have broad but vague goals of making digital markets “fairer” and “more contestable."

Updated 2 weeks ago
Abortion is enshrined as a constitutional right in France after lawmakers approve an amendment

The right to an abortion has broad support among the French public

Updated 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Hundreds of inmates flee after armed gangs storm Haiti's main prison, leaving bodies behind

Haiti’s government urged calm as it sought to find the killers, kidnappers and perpetrators of other violent crimes that it said escaped during the outbreak of…

Updated 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Putin foe Alexei Navalny is buried in Moscow as thousands attend under a heavy police presence

At least 67 people were detained at events across Russia in Navalny's memory

Updated 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Humanoid robot-maker Figure partners with OpenAI and gets backing from Jeff Bezos and tech giants

For OpenAI, which dabbled in robotics research before pivoting to a focus on the AI large language models that power ChatGPT, the partnership will "open up new…

Updated 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Lower auto prices are finally giving Americans a break after years of inflationary increases

The price spikes that followed the 2020 pandemic were caused mainly by a worldwide shortage of computer chips

Updated 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Germany and Poland say they're not sending troops to Ukraine as the Kremlin warns of a wider war

The idea of sending troops has been taboo, particularly as NATO seeks to avoid being dragged into a wider war with nuclear-armed Russia