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A Russian strike on Kharkiv's TV tower is part of an intimidation campaign, Ukraine's Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a Russian missile strike that smashed a television tower in Kharkiv was part of the Kremlin's ongoing effort to intimidate Ukraine's second-largest city, which in recent weeks has come under increasingly frequent attack.
A cluster of earthquakes shakes Taiwan after a strong quake killed 13 earlier this month
A cluster of earthquakes struck the island republic of Taiwan early Tuesday, the strongest having a magnitude of 6.1, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Israel's military intelligence chief resigns over failure to prevent Hamas attack on Oct. 7
The head of Israeli military intelligence resigned on Monday because of Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, becoming the first senior figure to step down over his role in the stunning failure to anticipate or quickly respond to the deadliest assault in Israel's history.
Aboriginal spears taken by Captain Cook in 1770 are returned to Australia's Indigenous people
Four Aboriginal spears that were taken to England by Captain James Cook more than 250 years ago were returned Tuesday to Australia's Indigenous community at a ceremony in Cambridge University.
Abortion returns to the spotlight in Italy 46 years after it was legalized
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni's far-right-led government wants to allow anti-abortion groups access to women considering ending their pregnancies, reviving tensions around abortion in Italy 46 years after it was legalized in the overwhelmingly Catholic country.
A well-known figure in a German far-right party tells his trial he is completely innocent
One of the best-known figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany party said Tuesday at his trial on charges of using a Nazi slogan that he is ''completely innocent.''
European Space Agency adds 5 new astronauts in only fourth class since 1978. Over 20,000 applied
For the past year, five fit, academically superior men and women have been spun in centrifuges, submerged for hours, deprived temporarily of oxygen, taught to camp in the snow, and schooled in physiology, anatomy, astronomy, meteorology, robotics, and Russian.
Police clear out a migrant camp in central Paris. Activists say it's a pre-Olympics sweep
French police evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the River Seine on Tuesday, the latest operation in what aid groups call a campaign of ''social cleansing'' ahead of the Summer Olympics.
5 migrants have died while crossing the English Channel, hours after UK approved deportation bill
Five people, including a child, died while trying to cross the English Channel from France to the U.K., French authorities said Tuesday, just hours after the British government approved a migrant bill to deport some of those who entered the country illegally to Rwanda.
Haiti health system nears collapse as medicine dwindles, gangs attack hospitals and ports stay shut
On a recent morning at a hospital in the heart of gang territory in Haiti's capital, a woman began convulsing before her body went limp as a doctor and two nurses raced to save her.
Police in Bosnia arrest 23 people suspected of being part of global drug kingpin's 'inner circle'
Law enforcement officers in Bosnia arrested 23 people suspected of belonging to a ''global drug kingpin's inner circle,'' including police and security officials, in a clampdown on criminal networks controlling much of Europe's cocaine trade, authorities said Tuesday.
Modi is accused of using hate speech for calling Muslims 'infiltrators' at an Indian election rally
India's main opposition party accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of using hate speech after he called Muslims ''infiltrators" — some of his most incendiary rhetoric about the minority faith, days after the country began its weekslong general election.
A far-right German EU lawmaker's aide is arrested on suspicion of spying for China
A man who works for a prominent German far-right lawmaker in the European Parliament has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China, authorities said Tuesday. The detention came less than 24 hours after three people were arrested for spying for China in a separate German case.
Human rights groups condemn UK plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda after Parliament backs new law
Britain's plans to send some asylum-seekers to Rwanda were swiftly condemned by international humanitarian organizations after Parliament approved legislation allowing the deportation flights to begin later this year.
The UK pledges $620 million in new military aid for Ukraine
The U.K. on Tuesday pledged an additional $620 million in new military supplies for Ukraine, including long-range missiles and four millions rounds of ammunition, at a time when Ukraine is struggling to hold off advancing Russian forces on the eastern front line of the war, now in its third year.
2 Malaysian military helicopters collide and crash while training, killing all 10 crew
Two Malaysian military helicopters collided midair and crashed during a training session on Tuesday, killing all 10 people on board and injuring a swimmer in a pool, authorities said.
Swedish customs seize around 1.4 tons of cocaine in one of the country's largest-ever drug busts
Swedish customs made one of the country's biggest-ever cocaine seizures after confiscating around 1.4 tons of the drug last week in a port near Stockholm, an official told Swedish television on Tuesday.
South Korean sentenced to 14 months in jail for killing 76 cats
A South Korean man has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for killing 76 cats in one of the country's most gruesome cases of animal cruelty in recent years.
Russia begins withdrawing peacekeeping forces from Karabakh, now under full Azerbaijan control
Russian forces are being withdrawn from Azerbaijan's Karabakh region, where they have been stationed as peacekeepers since the end of a war in 2020, officials of both countries said Wednesday.
$8 billion US military aid package to Taiwan will 'boost confidence' in region: president-elect
A $8 billion defense package approved by the U.S. House of Representatives over the weekend will ''strengthen the deterrence against authoritarianism in the West Pacific ally chain,'' Taiwan's President-elect Lai Ching-te said Tuesday, in a reference to key rival China.