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Two Republican senators from Texas are publicly calling on China to release a “wrongfully detained” American facing the death penalty after he was arrested for drug trafficking on a business trip to the country over a decade ago. Mark Swidan was 38-years old when he went to China on business …

A former London police officer was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison with a minimum term of 30 years for raping and sexually assaulting a dozen women over a 17-year period. Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick, 48, admitted last month he was a serial rapist in what prosecutors described as …

Burma’s military-led government, working with Russia’s state atomic energy company, has inaugurated a nuclear power information center as a step toward developing atomic power to fill energy shortages in the strife-torn Southeast Asian nation. Burma state media reported Tuesday that the head of the military government, Senior Gen. Min Aung …

Ukraine’s military announced Tuesday that more than 1,000 Russian troops have been killed over a 24-hour stretch, setting a new, grim record for Vladimir Putin’s military, a report says.  Overnight, the country’s armed forces increased its running tally of Russian troops killed by 1,030, bringing its total to 133,190.   It …

An overnight rescue operation successfully retrieved a 19-month-old girl from a dry artesian well shaft Tuesday — 18 hours after she fell into the hole at a cassava farm in northern Thailand. Rescuers clapped and cheered as the toddler, the daughter of migrant workers from Myanmar, was pulled out of …

A member of the Church of England’s general synod claims his bishop reported him to the police for tweets in opposition to “queer theory” and the sexualization of children. Sam Margrave, 40, of Warwickshire, England, told Fox News Digital that he lives in fear of “a knock at the door” …

Two pilots walked away with minor injuries after a Boeing 737 jet converted for firefighting crashed in Australia, officials said Tuesday. The twin-engine tanker owned by Canadian-based Coulson Aviation crashed in Fitzgerald River National Park in southern Western Australia state while fighting wildfires late Monday. Both pilots received only minor …

Chilean firefighters were battling to hold back forest fires on Monday as authorities said hot and dry weather would continue this week, potentially exacerbating what are already the deadliest blazes in the country’s recent history. The fires, which have consumed 667,000 acres of land, have killed 24 people so far …

The number of people confirmed dead from a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked Syria and Turkey rose to more than 5,000 on Tuesday as more bodies were recovered from the rubble of destroyed buildings. Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay said the total number of deaths in Turkey had risen to …

Costa Rica’s government said Monday that China apologized for a intel operation flying over the Central American country’s airspace. The incident came after a separate Chinese spy balloon traveled across the U.S. last week, prompting criticisms of China as well as the Biden administration, for not taking the balloon down …