A red panda that spent two days on the lam after escaping from an Australian zoo was recaptured Sunday after he was spotted hanging out in a fig tree in a nearby park. Named Ravi, the 7-year-old panda had arrived at Adelaide Zoo last week after he was brought in… Read More
Biden’s disastrous Afghan retreat, one year later
The Taliban on Monday marked a year since they seized the Afghan capital in a rapid takeover that triggered a hasty escape of the nation’s Western-backed leaders, sent the economy into a tailspin, fundamentally transformed the country, cost 13 American lives, and tanked President Joe Biden’s approval polls. Bearded Taliban… Read More
Samsung billionaire earns conviction pardon
Samsung’s de-facto leader secured a pardon Friday of his conviction for bribing a former president in a corruption scandal that toppled a previous South Korean government, an act of leniency that underscored the tech company’s huge influence in the nation. Lee Jae-yong’s pardon is partially symbolic since he was released… Read More
UK says monkeypox outbreak ‘shows signs of slowing’
British health officials say the monkeypox outbreak across the country “shows signs of slowing” but that it’s still too soon to know if the decline will be maintained. In a statement on Monday, the Health Security Agency said authorities are reporting about 29 new monkeypox infections every day, compared to… Read More
Brittney Griner appeals her Russian prison sentence
Lawyers for American basketball star Brittney Griner have filed an appeal of her nine-year Russian prison sentence for drug possession, Russian news agencies reported Monday, amid talks between the U.S. and Russia that could lead to a high-profile prisoner swap. Griner, an eight-time all-star center with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury… Read More
Russian shelling in Ukraine reportedly kills several civilians
At least three Ukrainian civilians have been killed and nearly 20 others wounded in the latest artillery barrages from the Russian military, Ukrainian officials said Monday. The eastern region of Donetsk, one of the two provinces making up the country’s industrial heartland of Donbas that has been the focus of… Read More
Jimmy Carter’s Iran comments come back to haunt him
Salman Rushdie, the author of the novel The Satanic Verses, has faced risks to his safety ever since Iran’s government placed a bounty on him in 1989. On Friday, Rushdie was stabbed while giving a lecture in New York. Since then, he’s started to recover, and he’s earned well wishes from… Read More
WHO makes politically correct change amid MPX outbreak
The World Health Organization says it’s holding an open forum to rename the disease monkeypox, after some critics raised concerns the name could be derogatory or have racist connotations. In a statement Friday, the U.N. health agency said it has also renamed two families, or clades, of the virus, using… Read More
Tons of fish mysteriously die off in this river
Laboratory tests following a mass die-off of fish in the Oder River detected high levels of salinity but no mercury poisoning its waters, Poland’s environment minister said Saturday as the mystery continued as to what killed tons of fish in Central Europe. Anna Moskwa, the minister of climate and environment,… Read More
African ship heads to Ukraine amid widespread grain shortage
A ship approached Ukraine on Friday to pick up wheat for hungry people in Ethiopia, in the first food delivery to Africa under a U.N.-brokered plan to unblock grain trapped by Russia’s war on Ukraine and bring relief to some of the millions worldwide on the brink of starvation. For… Read More
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