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Israeli police have sealed up the east Jerusalem home of a Palestinian attacker who killed seven people and wounded three outside a synagogue.

Long-term exposure could also cause cancer, however, experts say the capsule cannot be weaponized.

A passenger bus fell into a ravine and caught fire killing 40 people in southern Pakistan on Sunday, a government official said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a series of punitive steps against the Palestinians, including plans to beef up Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, in response to a pair of shooting attacks that killed seven Israelis and wounded five others. The announcement cast a cloud over a visit next week by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken...

The Whale Store, an unmanned outlet that recently opened near Tokyo, houses machines for whale sashimi, whale bacon, whale skin and whale steak, as well as canned whale meat at prices from 1,000 yen ($7.70) to 3,000 yen ($23).

The Israeli strikes early Friday targeted training sites for Palestinian militant groups, the military said.

A building collapsed in a neighborhood in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo early Sunday, killing at least 10 people, including one child, Syrian state media reported.

The Lunar New Year is the most important annual holiday in China. Each year is named after one of the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac in a repeating cycle, with this year being the Year of the Rabbit.

Chris Hipkins was confirmed Sunday as New Zealand’s next prime minister and he chose Carmel Sepuloni as his deputy, marking the first time a person with Pacific Island heritage has risen to that rank.

The Colombian navy rescued a man from Dominica who says he survived 24 days adrift in the Caribbean on a sailboat by eating ketchup, garlic powder and seasoning cubes.

A Russian spy ship has been patrolling off the coast of Hawaii but so far has remained in international waters, the Pentagon said Thursday.

In a brief statement, the FSB service said the American is “suspected of collecting intelligence information on biological topics directed against the security of the Russian Federation.”

A helicopter crash that killed Ukraine’s interior minister and about a dozen other people is the latest devastating development in the nearly yearlong war that began with Russia’s invasion.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that she will not contest this year’s general elections.

Lucile Randon, known as Sister Andrée, was born in France on February 11, 1904, the same year New York City opened its first subway and about a decade before the First World War broke out.

Romanian authorities have descended on a compound near Bucharest to tow away a fleet of luxury cars and other assets worth an estimated total of $3.9 million in the case investigating Andrew Tate.

A plane making a 27-minute flight to a Nepal tourist town crashed into a gorge Sunday while attempting to land at a newly opened airport, killing at least 68 of the 72 people aboard. At least one witness reported hearing cries for help from within the fiery wreck, the country’s deadliest airplane accident in three decades. Hours after dark, scores…

Chelsea has welcomed a decision from the English Football Association to make a homophobic chant aimed at its supporters a punishable offense.

The United Arab Emirates has named a veteran technocrat who both leads Abu Dhabi’s state-run oil company and oversees its renewable energy efforts to be the president of the upcoming United Nations climate negotiations in Dubai. The announcement on Thursday naming Sultan al-Jaber highlights the balancing act ahead for this crude-producing nation. Al-Jaber is a trusted confidant of UAE leader...

The head of the World Health Organization says the agency is “concerned about the risk to life in China” amid the coronavirus’ explosive spread across the country and the lack of outbreak data from the Chinese government.