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Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images (PARIS) — Police were searching offices associated with organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Tuesday as part of two financial investigations, French officials said. “A police search is currently underway at the headquarters of the Organising Committee,” the Paris 2024 committee, COJOP, said in a statement. “Paris 2024 is […]

SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Climate change is taking a major human, economic and environmental toll in Europe, which has now been dubbed the fastest warming continent of the world, according to a new report. Europe has been warming twice as much as the global average since the 1980s, the report, released Monday by Copernicus, […]

Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images (BEIJING) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Monday at 4:30 p.m. local time, according to an official with the U.S. Department of State. The meeting comes amid soaring tensions between the United States and China, fueling concerns that the two counties […]

AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — The global number of children forcibly displaced from their homes reached a record 43.3 million by the end of 2022, fueled by conflicts such as the war in Ukraine, according to estimates released Wednesday by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund. That figure has doubled in the last […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (LONDON) — The death toll from a capsized boat that was carrying wedding guests in Nigeria has risen to more than 100, authorities said Wednesday. The wooden boat overturned early Monday as it was ferrying about 300 people, including children, across a river to Kwara state from neighboring Niger state after a wedding […]

Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images (BRUSSELS) — The European Parliament approved landmark legislation Wednesday that aims to regulate the use of artificial intelligence. Known as the AI Act, the landmark legislation aims to promote “human-centric and trustworthy AI,” introducing “obligations for providers and those deploying AI systems,” and proposing bans on any intrusive and discriminatory use […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (ATHENS, Greece) — Rescue efforts were underway Wednesday after a fishing vessel carrying migrants capsized and sank in the Mediterranean Sea, about 54 miles off the coast of Pylos, Greece. At least 104 people have been rescued and 79 have died, the Greek Coast Guard said. Unconfirmed early estimates put hundreds of migrants […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — In a hospital not far from the front lines of the Ukrainian-Russian conflict lies a hospital filled with patients who have been caught in the crossfire. The Ukrainian medical staff at Dnipro’s Mechnikov Hospital said they’ve been emotionally, mentally and physically drained as they have seen over 14,000 patients over […]

Jasenka Arbanas/Getty Images (ROME) — The Vatican press office released photos on Thursday of Pope Francis recovering after undergoing intestinal surgery. Francis was checked into Gemelli hospital in Rome Wednesday, June 7, for a three-hour intestinal operation. The 86-year-old pontiff will be discharged on Friday morning, Matteo Bruni, director of the press office for The […]

Frank Rumpenhorst/picture alliance via Getty Images (BERLIN)– An American tourist was killed and another was injured when they were attacked by an American man they met near the famous Neuschwanstein castle in southern Germany, authorities said Thursday. The incident occurred Wednesday afternoon in the German state of Bavaria near the Marienbruecke, a pedestrian bridge popular […]