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Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images (TOKYO) — The United Nation’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), approved plans by Japan to release water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday. The plan would see Japan release 1.3 million tons of treated wastewater — the equivalent of […]

pop_jop/Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — Ukrainian Armed Forces have yet to reach their “full potential” but two top generals say the counteroffensive is “going to plan” despite anxiety among some Western analysts that Ukraine is not making enough progress. “So far things are developing according to plans that were drawn up and approved,” Gen. Oleksandr […]

Mona Makela Photography/Getty Images (TEXAS) — Four bodies, including that of an infant, have been recovered from the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, since Saturday, according to Lt. Chris Olivarez, a spokesperson with the Texas Department of Public Safety. Olivarez tweeted Monday that the agency’s Tactical Marine Unit (TMU) and the Florida Fish and […]

Boy_Anupong/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Israeli forces fired tear gas inside of a hospital in the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday that injured 125 people as a two-day raid on the city continued, Doctors Without Borders said. The tear gas fired inside of the hospital made the emergency room “unusable,” and the ER […]

Bernard Van Berg / EyeEm/Getty Images (PARIS) — France has been beset by violent unrest in recent days after a police officer shot and killed a teenager in a Paris suburb. Here’s what we know about the situation: What sparked the protests? A17-year-old driver was shot dead by a police officer during a traffic check […]

FILE photo — ©Studio One-One/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A 6-year-old child has survived after falling 40 feet from a zip line in an accident that was caught on camera. The boy had been spending the afternoon zip lining with his family at an amusement park in Mexico. But the child’s harness failed and the […]

FotografiaBasica/Getty Images (LONDON) — Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has announced that Wagner Mercenary Group is to continue its operations in Africa and its troops are set to remain in place following the aborted armed mutiny by Wagner mercenary fighters in Russia on Saturday. Speaking in an interview with Russia Today, Lavrov said that the […]

Contributor/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As Russia continues its nearly 16-month-long invasion of neighboring Ukraine, political turmoil has erupted in Moscow while Kyiv tries to take back territory. A feud between Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Russian paramilitary organization Wagner Group, and Russia’s top military brass escalated as Prigozhin’s forces left the front line in […]

Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The State Department released a declassified version of its long-anticipated report Friday examining the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, unveiling the harshest critique of any of the administration’s efforts to examine its own handling of the crisis to date. “The decisions of both President Trump and President Biden to end […]

Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (LONDON) — Canada’s wildfire season is now the worst ever recorded as the country has exceeded the largest area ever burned in a year, totaling more than 19.5 million acres so far. There are at least 500 active fires burning around the country, 257 of which are classified as “out of control”, […]