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Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The United Nations on Tuesday officially declared that the global population had reached 8 billion, highlighting massive growth in the last few decades and the decades to come, but also raising concerns about food scarcity and prices around the world. Every night around 828 million people go to bed hungry, […]

Samir Hussein/WireImage/Getty Images (LONDON) — King Charles III is celebrating his first birthday as Britain’s reigning monarch. To mark the occasion, Buckingham Palace on Monday released a new photo of Charles, who is now 74. The photo shows Charles resting against an ancient oak tree in Windsor Great Park, near Windsor Castle.       […]

Samir Hussein/WireImage (LONDON) — As Britain’s royal family gathered on Remembrance Sunday to honor members of the U.K. and Commonwealth who died in war, for the first time at the event, a wreath was laid on behalf of Camilla, the queen consort. The wreath, laid at the Cenotaph war memorial in London, featured Camilla’s racing […]

SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine, the two countries are engaged in a struggle for control of areas throughout eastern and southern Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose forces began an offensive in August, has vowed to take […]

EVGENIA NOVOZHENINA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — WNBA star Brittney Griner has been taken to penal colony IK-2 in the Russian region of Mordovia, her lawyers said in a statement Thursday. Griner is nearing her ninth month in detention after being taken into custody at a Moscow area airport in February for possessing vape cartridges […]

Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — North Korea has fired one of the most power intercontinental ballistic missiles it has ever launched with the latest having the potential trajectory to strike the mainland of the United States. North Korea, which has launched at least 88 ballistic and other missiles this year, fired an ICBM […]

Halfpoint Images/Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — As darkness descends on the Ukrainian capital, the consequences of the waves of Russian missile strikes against critical energy infrastructure become apparent. There’s no street lighting in many places around Kyiv, with people carrying flashlights or just their mobile phones with lights on to navigate around. Even traffic lights […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Polish officials granted Ukrainian investigators access on Thursday to the site of the missile strike that hit a Polish village and killed two people earlier in the week. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday disputed a claim by Poland that Tuesday’s missile strike came from Ukrainian air defenses. Polish President […]

chrispecoraro/Getty Images (SAN JOSE DEL CABO, Mexico) — An American woman’s death in Mexico is being investigated as a femicide, a form of gender-based violence, according to the Baja California Sur Attorney General’s Office. The family of Shanquella Robinson, 25, of Charlotte, North Carolina, is desperate for answers after she died while vacationing with friends […]

Peter Adams/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The world’s population reached eight billion people on Tuesday, according to a report by the United Nations’ population division. “This year’s World Population Day falls during a milestone year, when we anticipate the birth of the Earth’s eight billionth inhabitant. This is an occasion to celebrate our diversity, recognize […]