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Humanitarian aid at risk as fighting continues in Congo's eastern capital. (Video: AP.) The former figure skater issued a ...

Critical minerals factor into the fight.

On social media and in group chats, rumors about what could happen have spread. Resettlement agencies stick to the facts, and share what they know.

Russia launched a barrage of drones on Ukraine in an overnight attack on Friday, injuring four people and damaging a hospital and a grain warehouse in the southern Odesa region, officials said.

1953: A car ferry sinks in the Irish Sea in one of the worst gales of the winter, claiming the lives of up to 130 passengers and crew. On the same day, Isthmian League side Walthamstow Avenue draw 1-1 ...

Rwanda-backed rebels who have captured eastern Congo’s largest city say they plan to take their rebellion to the capital and ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and President Donald Trump will discuss the Indo-Pacific region and bilateral support ...

South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the ...

After Trump's executive order to suspend the refugee program for 90 days, Idaho advocates are hoping that things will go back ...

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