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At least 10 trainee mountaineers died Tuesday after being swept away by an avalanche in the Himalayas in northern India, media reports said, as rescuers searched for 11 others missing. A group of 29 people was hit by an avalanche on a mountain peak located in the Gangotri range of the Garhwal Himalayas on Tuesday morning, said Uttarakhand state police …

The U.S. and South Korea conducted precision bombing drills after North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan on Tuesday. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered five ballistic missile tests over the past 10 days, with several coinciding with Vice President Kamala Harris’ visit to South Korea last week. Tuesday’s flight was the first time the northern regime …

BRASILIA, Brazil — Despite Brazil’s pollsters largely predicting a first-round victory for former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro fared much better than expected, forcing his leftist opponent into a runoff election at the end of the month. Yet, for many international observers, it may seem curious that Lula is even in the running, considering his …

Bosnians go to the polls on Sunday to choose the country’s new collective presidency and lawmakers at national, regional and local levels, deciding between long-entrenched nationalist parties and reformists focused on the economy. Nearly 3.4 million people are eligible to vote amid the worst political crisis in the Balkan country since the end of its war in the 1990s, prompted …

North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan Tuesday, prompting Tokyo to issue a warning for residents to take cover. The missile was launched from North Korea’s coast and was reported by South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and the Japanese coast guard. The projectile was believed to have landed in the Pacific Ocean. The Japanese prime minister’s office …

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei broke his silence Monday on the protests ignited by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, saying he was “deeply heartbroken” by her death while blaming America for the riots themselves.  “This rioting was planned,” Khamenei said while speaking with police students in Tehran. “These riots and insecurities were designed by America and the Zionist …

Ukrainian forces advanced dozens of miles into the Russian-occupied territories of Luhansk and Kherson on Monday, just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed to annex the regions. The Russian-installed chief of occupied Kherson told Russian state television that Ukrainian forces had seized control of the city of Dudchany, indicating an advance of roughly 25 miles in a single day, …

BRASILIA, BRAZIL – Incumbent Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro began the evening with a modest lead of 8% as the results began to trickle in, yet over the course of the night, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, slowly and steadily cut into that lead. At 8 p.m., with 70% reporting, Lula took a slight lead over Bolsonaro, eventually …

The leaders of nine NATO nations from Central and Eastern Europe issued a joint statement on Sunday in support of Ukraine’s path to membership in the alliance.  “We firmly stand behind the 2008 Bucharest NATO Summit decision concerning Ukraine’s future membership,” the presidents of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Poland, Czechia, Romania, North Macedonia, and Slovakia said on Sunday.  At that …

NATO’s top official has stressed that the organization believes a major German oil and gas pipeline suffered damage as a result of sabotage, and any attack on NATO infrastructure will be met with a “firm” and “unified” response.  “All evidence points again that this is sabotage deliberately done by someone against these pipelines,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said during an …