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Inside a shrine overlooking snow-capped mountains, Hindu priests heaped spoonfuls of puffed rice and ghee into a crackling fire. They closed their eyes and chanted, hoping their prayers would somehow turn back time and save their holy — and sinking — town. For months, the roughly 20,000 residents in Joshimath, …

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook southern Turkey on Monday — three weeks after a catastrophic temblor devastated the region — causing some already damaged buildings to collapse and killing at least one person, the country’s disaster management agency, AFAD, said. Another 69 people were injured as a result of the …

Global security was flung into a state of ambiguity last week after Russian President Vladimir Putin “suspended” Moscow’s participation in the New START treaty and forced the U.S. to re-enter an age of nuclear instability.  The suspension of the treaty marks the first time since the collapse of the Soviet …

Search and rescue efforts continued Sunday after a makeshift wooden boat carrying more than a hundred migrants crashed into the rocky reefs off the coast of southern Italy before dawn.  The death toll climbed to at least 60 people, the Italian outlet Tgr Rai Calabria reported. At least one among …

North Korean parents will be sent to prison if their kids are caught watching foreign films just once, according to a new report.  Parents were previously let off with a stern warning if their children were found to be in possession of illicit films smuggled into the country. Now, parents …

Two Israeli brothers were shot and killed by a Palestinian gunman on Sunday near Har Bracha, a West Bank settlement about one mile south of Nablus, where nearly a dozen Palestinians were killed in an Israeli military raid earlier this week.  Israeli settlers rioted on Sunday evening in response to …

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency William Burns said in an interview aired Sunday that he warned Russia’s spy chief against using a nuclear weapon in Ukraine, while the Kremlin also reportedly is helping Iran bolster its weapons program.  “The conversation that I had with Sergei Naryshkin, the head of …

The president of Mexico is going viral after he posted a photo to social media he said shows a mythical woodland elf of Mayan folklore. “Everything is mystical,” Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said in a Twitter post Saturday, accompanied by two photos, including one that the president says …

A school chaplain in the United Kingdom who claims he was left unemployable after he was fired and reported as a terrorist for questioning LGBTQ activists is set to appeal a legal ruling against him. Rev. Dr. Bernard Randall, an ordained Church of England minister, sued his former employer Trent …

A transgender clinical psychologist raised concerns about potential “unexpected consequences” from a bill recently passed in Spain that allows individuals as young as 12 to legally change their gender. Spanish lawmakers recently passed a law that permits minors between 12 and 14 to change their legal gender with a judge’s …