‘We are edging towards the unimaginable – a powder keg that risks engulfing the world,’ Antonio Guterres says.
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Israel bombards Hezbollah, killing a top commander, while families flee southern Lebanon
The Lebanese Health Ministry says more than 560 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since Monday.
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6-year-old boy kidnapped in California in 1951 found alive more than 70 years later
An online ancestry test helped locate Luis Armando Albino, who was 6 in 1951 when a woman kidnapped him, flying him to the East Coast where he ended up with a couple who raised him as their own son.
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Texas jury clears most ‘Trump Train’ drivers in trial over Biden-Harris bus encounter
The jury found one person liable in a civil trial over a so-called ‘Trump Train’ that surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus in 2020.
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At the UN, world leaders try to lay out a vision for the future – and actually make it happen
The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a ‘Pact for the Future’ as it heads into its big meeting on Tuesday.
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U.S. to seek attempted assassination charge against man accused of staking out Trump at golf course
The suspect wrote a note months earlier saying that he intended to kill the former president, the Justice Department said.
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Southeast U.S. under major storm warning as hurricane watch issued for parts of Cuba and Mexico
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency in 41 counties on Monday as a result of the expected storm.
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Gunman who killed 10 at a Colorado supermarket found guilty of murder
The man’s plea of not guilty by reason of insanity – he has schizophrenia and said he heard voices before opening fire – was rejected.
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Missouri governor, state Supreme Court refuse to halt the execution of man convicted of 1998 killing
Marcellus Williams is set to be executed Tuesday evening for the murder of Lisha Gayle, a social worker and former newspaper reporter.
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Lebanese doctor races to save the eyes of those hurt by exploding tech devices
He’s seen a flood of patients with eye injuries after thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies exploded en masse.