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NASA (NEW YORK) — An asteroid NASA’s been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals. First discovered in 1999, Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, could possibly drift into the planet’s orbit and could hit the planet by September 2182, according to the OSIRIS-REx science team. Bennu passes near […]

Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia appeared on Tuesday in Moscow City Court to appeal an August decision to extend his pre-trial detention, but was turned away without a ruling. Evan Gershkovich, a Moscow correspondent with the paper, has been detained on spying charges since March, […]

Sanjeev Verma/Hindustan Times via Getty Images (OTTAWA, Canada) — Canadian national security agencies are investigating “credible allegations” that “agents of the government of India” were involved in the death of a Canadian Sikh leader in June, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday. Trudeau said that steps are being taken to hold the people accountable behind […]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (LONDON) — When she hopped on a taxi in Tehran this past summer, Raha was not wearing a headscarf. Her open challenge to the mandatory hijab rule in place in Iran for the last 40 years did not go unnoticed. She said her male taxi driver complimented her for the brave gesture, like […]

Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia is scheduled to appear on Tuesday in Moscow City Court, where his legal team is expected to appeal an August decision to extend his pre-trial detention. Evan Gershkovich, a Moscow correspondent with the paper, has been detained on spying charges […]

Handout (TEHRAN, Iran)– Five American citizens freed as part of a deal between the U.S. and Iran were flown out of the country and arrived in Doha, Qatar, Monday before boarding a flight to the U.S. later in the day. The Americans being repatriated include Siamak Namazi, Emad Shargi and Morad Tahbaz, as well as […]

Handout (TEHRAN, Iran)– Five American citizens freed as part of a deal between the U.S. and Iran were flown out of the country and landed in Doha, Qatar, Monday. Later Monday, they will be flown back to the U.S. The Americans being repatriated include Siamak Namazi, Emad Shargi and Morad Tahbaz, as well as two […]

Handout (TEHRAN, Iran) — Five Americans detained in Iran will be freed on Monday as part of a prisoner swap, according to the Iranian Foreign Ministry. The detained U.S. citizens being repatriated include Siamak Namazi, Emad Shargi and Morad Tahbaz, as well as two others who asked that their identity not be made public. Namazi, […]

Piccell/Getty Images (LONDON) — American caver Mark Dickey said he could tell he was “pretty close to fading” after he fell ill while on an expedition to map a 4,186-foot-deep cave system in southern Turkey. “There’s not that much that you tell yourself. You kind of just survive,” Dickey recalled during an interview Thursday with […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The U.N. World Food Program (WFP), the largest anti-hunger initiative around the globe, is grappling with the worst funding shortage in its 60-year history and “we are in a desperate situation,” Executive Director Cindy McCain said on Sunday. “It’s a combination of things — it’s COVID, it’s climate change, it’s conflict and […]