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Helicopter with Iran’s president Raisi makes ‘hard landing,’ state media says

A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” in “adverse weather conditions” Sunday, according to state-run media, which said Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and...

Dow briefly tops 40,000, meme stocks down but not out

Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesThis report is from today's CNBC Daily...

Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi ‘missing’ after helicopter in convoy ‘crashes’ sparking massive search operation

A MAJOR search and rescue operation is underway after a helicopter carrying Iranian...

The Israel-Hamas war is testing whether campuses are sacrosanct places for speech and protest

BERKELEY, Calif. -- Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Stephen Hawking on the Big...

Dominican government cracks down on Haitians in Punta Cana

PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — In the shadow of this Caribbean resort, a...

South Korea, US defy North’s calls to scrap military drills

  (AA) - South Korea and the United States are pushing ahead with joint military exercises this year, but a major drill usually held in February...

Former Mexican mayor’s wife ordered to prison

(AA) – The wife of former mayor in a high profile case was given a formal order of prison by a Mexican court on Monday,...

Uighur banned from wearing burqas in public in China

(AA) - Muslims in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region have been banned from wearing burqas in public places - the latest in a raft of restrictions seen...

One million Chinese apply to have second child

(AA) - China's National Health and Family Planning Commission has said that nearly one million couples have applied to have a second child since the...

Hong Kong home, office of pro-democracy tycoon firebombed

(AA) -- Masked attackers hurled petrol bombs at the home and office of a pro-democracy media tycoon in Hong Kong in coordinated attacks Monday. The...

AirAsia QZ8501 black box retrieved from Java Sea

(AA) – Search teams retrieved Monday one of the black boxes of an AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea with 162 people...

Mexico unable to charge mayor with students’ murders

(AA) - The evidence collected against a former mayor and his wife is not enough to charge the couple with the execution of 43 students,...

Mexico asks Interpol for help finding investment fraudster

(AA) -- Mexico’s attorney general on Thursday asked Interpol to help find and arrest the main shareholder of a Mexican microfinance firm who has been...

Former Peruvian leader given extra prison sentence

(AA) – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was convicted Thursday for using state money to fund a dirty media war on opponents in his...

Indonesian Divers Prepared to Lift Tail of AirAsia Plane – Official

Indonesian divers are prepared to lift the wreckage of the tail of the AirAsia plane that was found in the Java Sea on Tuesday,...

Australian Police Detain Man Carrying Knife Near Parliament House in Canberra

A man armed with a knife was detained Thursday outside the Parliament House in Canberra, Australian Federal Police (AFP) said. "Around 12:30pm , ACT Policing...

HK ‘drug kingpin’ arrested in record bust in Indonesia

(AA) -- An alleged Hong Kong drug lord wanted in seven jurisdictions in Southeast Asia has been arrested in Indonesia in the biggest drug...

American author to be banned from South Korea

(AA) "I can't believe I may face deportation instead of getting compensation.” An indignant Shin Eun-mi told reporters during what looks like her last week...

Philippine troops wound ‘Abu Sayyaf leader’ in arrest

(AA) - A suspected leading figure of the Abu Sayyaf terror group has been shot and wounded while resisting capture, the Philippine military said Wednesday. Imran Daiyong Mijal,...

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