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China is demanding the Philippines remove a scuttled naval vessel being used as an occupied base from a disputed reef in the South China Sea. Tuesday’s demand from Beijing comes three days after a Chinese Coast Guard ship fired a powerful water cannon at Philippine naval vessels cruising towards the Second Thomas Shoal on a […]

Now that July’s sizzling numbers are all in, the European climate monitoring organization made it official: July 2023 was Earth’s hottest month on record by a wide margin. July’s global average temperature of 16.95 degrees Celsius (62.51 degrees Fahrenheit) was a third of a degree Celsius (six tenths of a degree Fahrenheit) higher than the […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Several thousand people — their faces covered to conceal their identities — marched through Haiti’s capital on Monday demanding protection from violent gangs that are pillaging neighborhoods in the capital Port-au-Prince and beyond. Haitians’ daily lives have been disrupted by incessant gang violence that has worsened poverty across the country as it awaits […]

NEW YORK — Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis said definitively that rival Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, an acknowledgement the Florida governor made after years of equivocating answers. “Of course he lost,” DeSantis said an interview with NBC News posted Monday. “Joe Biden’s the president.” DeSantis has often sidestepped questions about whether he believes the […]

WASHINGTON — Washington has never been a particularly friendly place for Donald Trump. And after pleading not guilty to federal charges that he had tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Trump was quick to show that the feeling was mutual. “It was also very sad driving through Washington, D.C., and seeing the filth and the […]

SYDNEY — Co-hosts Australia welcomed captain Sam Kerr to the fray for the first time in the tournament as they beat Denmark 2-0 to reach the quarter-finals of the Women’s World Cup at Stadium Australia on Monday. Forwards Caitlin Foord and Hayley Raso scored the goals either side of halftime before Kerr, who has been absent […]

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Friday to three new charges related to his handling of U.S. classified documents after he left the White House in 2021, a court filing showed. Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, also waived his right to be present in Florida federal court for […]

Washington — Former President Donald Trump is set to be arraigned Thursday afternoon in federal court in Washington, D.C., on charges related to his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election results, his first appearance in the latest case brought by special counsel Jack Smith. Trump’s plane took off from New Jersey shortly after 2 p.m. to head […]

MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, CALIFORNIA —  Aided by rain, firefighters fought to contain a massive blaze that swept through the California desert into Nevada and threatens the region’s famous spiky Joshua trees. The York Fire that erupted last Friday is California’s largest wildfire this year. As of early Wednesday it had burned through more than 333 […]

Latest developments: Croatia allocated $1.1 million for the demining of Ukrainian agricultural lands, Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said Monday. United Nations humanitarian office says a $3.9 billion appeal for humanitarian aid for Ukraine is less than 30% funded. Ukraine’s Defense Ministry signed an agreement with Turkish company Baykar to build a service center for the […]