Washington Post: World
- Thich Nhat Hanh, influential Zen Buddhist monk, dies at 95
Saturday - 01/22/2022 - 03:47 AMThich Nhat Hanh, the revered Zen Buddhist monk who helped spread the practice of mindfulness in the West and socially engaged Buddhism in the East, has died
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - First flights leave Chinese city Xi'an as travel curbs ease
Saturday - 01/22/2022 - 05:14 AMThe first commercial airline flights in one month have taken off from Xi’an in western China as the government eased travel curbs imposed after a coronavirus outbreak ahead of next month’s Winter Olympics in Beijing
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Two Canadians are killed in shooting at Mexican beach resort
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 08:33 AMThe shooting is the latest to take the life of a foreigner along Mexico's troubled Riviera Maya.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Airlines in Europe say they are flying near-empty planes as omicron derails travel. They say E.U. rules mean they can’t stop.
Saturday - 01/22/2022 - 05:00 AMOne airline says it may need to fly 18,000 "poorly booked" flights this winter — a figure the E.U. disputes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Florida man charged after 4 found dead at Canada-US border
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 04:04 AMA Florida man has been charged with human smuggling after the bodies of four people, including a baby and a teen, were found in Canada near the U.S. border
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In Venezuela, a soldier can be sent to prison for being gay. The courts could change that.
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 06:00 AMVenezuela’s highest court will weigh the constitutionality of an article in the military code of justice banning "sexual acts against nature."
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Italy needs a new president and a stable government. Mario Draghi cannot be the answer to both.
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 11:12 AMItaly on Monday is beginning the process to select a new president.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - More than 60 killed, including children, in airstrikes in Yemen
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 11:43 AMThe strikes raised the death toll in a particularly violent week for the war-torn country.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In crisis talks, U.S., Russian top diplomats trade demands on Ukraine
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 02:00 AMThe Biden administration is racing to head off what it says could be a dangerous assault on Russia’s neighbor.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UN chief: Mali military should hold elections in short time
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 12:04 PMU.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says Mali’s military leaders needs to hold delayed elections in “a relatively short amount of time” — not in 2026 as President Assimi Goita announced earlier this month
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- Russia toughens its posture amid Ukraine tensions
Saturday - 01/22/2022 - 04:56 AMWith tens of thousands of Russian troops positioned near Ukraine, the Kremlin has kept the U.S. and its allies guessing about its next moves in the worst security crisis to emerge between Moscow and the West since the Cold War
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Yemeni rebels say death toll from prison airstrike at 80
Saturday - 01/22/2022 - 05:16 AMYemen’s Houthi rebels and an aid group say the death toll from a Saudi-led coalition airstrike that hit a prison run by the rebels has climbed to at least 82 detainees
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Two brothers were separated in India during the partition. 74 years later, they have finally reunited.
Saturday - 01/22/2022 - 03:00 AMIndia's partition in 1947 fractured families. Today, volunteer groups running YouTube channels have cropped up with a sole purpose: to reunite them.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - US man accused of faking death to avoid charges jailed in UK
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 03:22 AMAn American man who authorities say faked his own death to evade prosecution for rape and financial fraud before fleeing to Scotland was jailed Friday after he failed to show up for an extradition hearing
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - As Turkey’s economy struggles, Erdogan goes it alone
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 04:00 AMEconomic growth empowered Turkey's leader. But experts who helped foster that growth are long gone.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Some governments have launched plans to fine the unvaccinated. Experts caution against the approach.
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 09:59 AMA growing number of governments is offering people a stark choice: Get your coronavirus vaccine or pay up.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kurdish-led forces repel Islamic State prison assault; dozens of casualties
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 11:33 AMDespite their defeat in 2019, Islamic State fighters still carry out attacks in Syria and Iraq.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Four maps that explain the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 11:46 AMThe conflict playing out between Russia and Ukraine is one marked by land borders and shaped by strategic influence.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Florida man charged after 4 found dead at Canada-US border
Thursday - 01/20/2022 - 10:12 AMA Florida man has been charged with human smuggling after the bodies of four people, including a baby and a teen, were found near the Canada United States border
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UN General Assembly head urges peace during Beijing Olympics
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 12:25 PMThe president of the General Assembly is appealing to the U.N.’s 193 member nations to take “concrete actions” to promote peace during next month’s Winter Olympics in Beijing
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- Ex-Malaysia PM Mahathir, 96, hospitalized at heart institute
Saturday - 01/22/2022 - 04:29 AMFormer Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has been hospitalized for the third time in just over a month, sparking concerns over his health
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The human toll of the Russia-Ukraine conflict since 2014
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 07:10 AMAs the standoff between Russia and Ukraine intensifies, many fear a repeat of the 2014 conflict, which left death, destruction and displacement in its wake.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Military trainers, missiles and over 200,000 lbs of lethal aid: What NATO members have sent Ukraine so far
Saturday - 01/22/2022 - 12:00 PMUkraine is not a NATO member and does not benefit from the organization’s mutual defense pact, but Kyiv has received significant defense support since Russia annexed its Crimea region.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Poland's ex-president Solidarity leader Walesa has COVID
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 03:23 AMPoland’s former president and former Solidarity pro-democracy movement leader, Lech Walesa, says he has COVID-19
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Honduras new leader sees 'betrayal' before taking office
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 04:22 AMHonduran President-elect Xiomara Castro has seen her prospects of a successful administration take a hit even before she’s been inaugurated
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Teenage pilot Zara Rutherford becomes the youngest woman to fly solo around the world
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 11:09 AMThe 19-year-old British-Belgian aviator completed her more than 32,000-mile journey when she touched down in Belgium on Thursday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mining truck explosion kills at least 13 and wounds more than 100 in Ghana
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 11:13 AMPolice initially reported 17 deaths but revised the toll to 13 Friday, saying four had been mistaken for dead.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - British white supremacist, initially sentenced to read Austen and Dickens, imprisoned for two years
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 12:44 PMBen John, who had been described by British police as an extremist with neo-Nazi sympathies, was originally told to read English literature before his sentence was overturned.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Canadian ambassador calls for 'inclusive' Haiti accord
Thursday - 01/20/2022 - 10:08 AMAhead of an international conference on Haiti led by his country, Canada’s ambassador to the Caribbean nation is calling for a politically “inclusive accord” to address a deepening constitutional crisis following the July 7 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - IS gunmen in Iraq kill 11 soldiers in brazen barracks attack
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 03:04 AMGunmen from the Islamic State extremist group attacked an army barracks in a mountainous area north of Baghdad, killing 11 soldiers as they slept, Iraqi security officials said
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