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DIMUSE/Getty Images (RUSSIA) — Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of Russian private military company the Wagner Group, which played a key role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine before briefly launching an insurrection against the Russian military, and President Vladimir Putin by extension, died Wednesday in a plane crash. Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a […]

TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK)– India on Wednesday became only the fourth country in the world to land a spacecraft on the moon, and the first to do so in the lunar south pole region. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched the mission, known as Chandrayaan-3, in mid-July, with the spacecraft traveling […]

ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — The bodies of 18 people were found amid the wreckage left by wildfires in a hiking area in northeastern Greece, the country’s fire service said on Tuesday. The remains were found northeast of the port city of Alexandroupoli, in an area where trails cross the Turkish border. A […]

Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The historic wildfire season currently plaguing Canada is expected to persist, perhaps becoming even worse in the coming weeks – a potentially devastating forecast made more likely due to human-caused climate change, according to new research. Drought and hot conditions contributed to an unprecedented start to the fire season […]

ABC News (LONDON) — Two adults and six children were rescued Tuesday after they were left dangling hundreds of feet above the ground in Pakistan when a cable car used to get kids to school broke, sparking a dramatic hourslong rescue operation. The six children ranged in age from 10 to 15 years old. Pakistani […]

yorkfoto/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Secretary of Commerce is set to visit China at the end of August, according to the Commerce Department, making Gina Raimondo the second high-ranking member of the Biden administration to visit China this year. Secretary Raimondo will visit Shanghai and Beijing from August 27-30, according to the Department of […]

Cheshire Constabulary/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Former British nurse Lucy Letby was sentenced on Monday to spend the rest of her life in prison after being found guilty in the worst child serial killer case in the modern history of the U.K. She was convicted in Manchester Crown Court of murdering seven babies and […]

Brais Seara/Getty Images (LONDON) — An uncrewed Russian spacecraft spun out of control during orbit and crashed into the moon, according to the country’s space agency. The Luna-25 craft lost contact with officials in Russia following an “abnormal situation” and crashed on Saturday, Roscosmos said in a statement to Interfax, a Russian news agency. Moscow’s lunar […]

Jean-Baptiste Bosson (NEW YORK) — Scientists are beginning to better understand the consequences of melting glaciers on humans, species of all kinds and the ecosystem in which they live. Glaciers are disappearing all over the world due to climate change, and the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. Under a […]

Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (LONDON) — At least 11 women’s rights activists were arrested by security forces in Iran in the northern province of Gilan Wednesday, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). However, Iranian officials say the number of people arrested in Gilan is 12, according to the Tasnim News Agency, which […]