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The World Health Organization chief says the coronavirus remains a global health emergency.

Mexican immigration authorities say they have found 57 Guatemalan adolescents packed into a trailer on a highway near the U.S. border.

A French nun who was believed to be the world’s oldest person has died shortly before her 119th birthday.

A tiger that escaped from a private farm in South Africa and attacked a man and killed two dogs and a pig while on the loose for days has been euthanized.

Authorities in South Africa are searching for a tiger that escaped from its enclosure at a farm near Johannesburg over the weekend.

A London police officer has admitted sexually assaulting a dozen women over a 17-year period.

Yeti Airlines flight 691 crashed Sunday just before landing in Nepal’s tourist city of Pokhara, the gateway to a popular hiking area in the Himalayas, after a 27-minute trip from Kathmandu.

Police say Italy’s No. 1 fugitive has been arrested.

Officials say search teams have retrieved the flight data and cockpit voice recorders of a passenger plane that plummeted into a gorge on approach to a new airport in the foothills of the Himalayas.

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Russia claims that its forces have captured the fiercely contested salt mining town of Soledar.

A court in Romania’s capital Bucharest has ruled against an appeal by the divisive social media personality Andrew Tate who challenged asset seizures by prosecutors who are investigating him on charges of being part of an organized crime group and human trafficking, an official said Wednesday.

Local lawmakers are calling for the expulsion of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro from the United States after he was released from a Central Florida hospital, Monday.

They come after supporters of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro ransacked the heart of the Brazilian state.

As Brazil reels from mobs of rioters swarming its seats of power, its former leader has decamped to a Florida resort, where droves of supporters flocked to cheer on their ousted president.

The aim will feature in the PM's first speech of the year, which he will use to set out his priorities for 2023.

PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. — Port Canaveral is relatively quiet this week after a record-breaking holiday travel season. Watch: World’s largest cruise ship to call Port Canaveral homePort Canaveral was just voted the best U.S. cruise homeport for the third consecutive year. Watch: All aboard: Record weekend expected for Port CanaveralThat announcement came during the Cruise Hive’s annual Cruise Ship Awards. Watch: Port Canaveral sees rising revenues thanks to growing cruise industryA record 57,000 cruise passengers are scheduled to pass through the port this Saturday. Click here to download the free WFTV news and weather apps, click here to download the WFTV Now app for your smart TV and click here to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.

James Cameron's long-delayed sequel is only the third movie to hit the $1bn milestone this year.

A German court has convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.

Six people, including two police officers, were shot and killed after the officers responded to a call at a property in rural Australia and were ambushed.

Three young boys who fell through ice covering a lake in central England have died and a fourth remains hospitalized as weather forecasters issued severe weather warnings for large parts of the United Kingdom.

The Justice Department says a Libyan intelligence official accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 in an international act of terrorism has been taken into U.S. custody and will face federal charges in Washington.

Basketball star Brittney Griner has been released by Russia in a 1-for-1 prisoner swap for arms dealer Viktor Bout, according to CBS News.

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A New Zealand court has temporarily taken away medical custody of a baby from his parents after they refused blood transfusions for him unless the blood comes from donors who are unvaccinated against COVID-19.

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A U.S. woman was killed and four other passengers injured when a massive wave struck the Viking Polaris cruise ship while it was sailing toward the port of Ushuaia in southern Argentina on an Antarctic cruise, authorities said.

A woman who was extradited from South Korea this week after the bodies of her two children were found in abandoned suitcases has made her first court appearance in New Zealand.

Residents have been placed on alert and were earlier warned about the risk of falling ash.

Most of the UK lacks consistent round-the-clock care for the terminally ill, research suggests.

Scientists are searching through a museum's wheat collection to find the crop of the future.

KILLINGTON, Vt. — (AP) — World champion Lara Gut-Behrami improved on her second run Saturday to win her first World Cup giant slalom in more than six years, with Mikaela Shiffrin finishing 13th. Defending Olympic champion Sara Hector, who had led after the opening run, was third — 0.20 behind Gut-Behrami. The 31-year-old Gut-Behrami won gold in the discipline at the world championships in Cortina last year but the Swiss had not won a World Cup GS race since October 2016. Shiffrin had finishes of second, third, fourth and fifth in giant slaloms in Killington but has won all five World Cup slaloms held there. It would be Shiffrin’s 50th World Cup win in that discipline.

World champion Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland has won her first World Cup giant slalom in more than six years with a triumphant second run.

Police say a Pakistani man suspected of killing his 18-year-old daughter in Italy after she reportedly refused an arranged marriage has been arrested and is being questioned by investigators in the capital, Islamabad.

Russian rockets have rained down on a small town in eastern Ukraine for the second time in a week, killing a newborn boy and destroying the municipal hospital.

The UK could face a "crypto shock" without better regulations, says a senior official at the Bank.

Relatives say that 21 victims of a fire that tore through a top-floor apartment in the Gaza Strip were from the same family.

An oil tanker associated with an Israeli billionaire has been struck by an Iranian bomb-carrying drone off the coast of Oman amid heightened tensions with Tehran.

A friend of Grand Theft Auto creators the Houser brothers says Hollywood wasted its one chance.

A judge in Scotland says a man who has spent almost a year fighting extradition to the United States is Nicholas Rossi, a fugitive alleged to have faked his own death to escape rape allegations.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — (AP) — World leaders are making the case for tougher action to tackle global warming Tuesday, as this year's international climate talks in Egypt heard growing calls for fossil fuel companies to help pay for the damage they have helped cause to the planet. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres warned Monday that humanity was on "a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator," urging countries to "cooperate or perish." He and leaders such as Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley said it was time to make fossil fuel companies contribute to funds which would provide vulnerable countries with financial aid for the climate-related losses they are suffering. The U.S. mid-term elections were hanging over the talks Tuesday, with many environmental campaigners worried that defeat for the Democrats could make it harder for President Joe Biden to pursue his ambitious climate agenda. ___Follow AP's climate and environment coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/climate-and-environment___Associated Press climate and environmental coverage receives support from several private foundations.

World leaders are making the case for tougher action to tackle global warming Tuesday, as U.N. climate talks heard growing calls for fossil fuel companies to help pay for the damage they have helped cause

The PM will tell world leaders at the COP27 summit they must stick to their green commitments.

The world's second-longest river and lifeblood of multiple African countries is facing a variety of risks it's never seen before.

The University of Kentucky says one its students was among more than 150 people killed when a huge Halloween party crowd surged into a narrow alley in a nightlife district in Seoul, South Korea.

HONG KONG — (AP) — World leaders expressed sadness and condolences after at least 151 people were killed in a crowd surge Saturday night in Seoul, South Korea. The tragedy occurred in Seoul's Itaewon district during Halloween festivities when a huge crowd surged into a narrow downhill alley. In France, President Emmanuel Macron — who tweeted in both French and in Korean — offered support to Seoul residents and South Korea. Hong Kong leader John Lee said in a statement on Facebook that he was saddened by the accident in Seoul. “This is a sad day for South Korea.

HONG KONG — (AP) — World leaders expressed sadness and condolences after at least 151 people were killed in a crowd surge Saturday night in Seoul, South Korea. U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden sent their “deepest condolences” to the families of the deceased. In France, President Emmanuel Macron — who tweeted in both French and in Korean — offered support to Seoul residents and South Korea. Hong Kong leader John Lee said in a statement on Facebook that he was saddened by the accident in Seoul. “This is a sad day for South Korea.

A mass of mostly young people among tens of thousands who gathered to celebrate Halloween in Seoul became trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a narrow alley, killing at least 151 people and injuring 82 others in South Korea’s worst disaster in years.

Bathers enjoy water temperatures of up to 21C on the French Riviera as October ends with a mild spell.

Russia's president says the West is unable to stay in charge, but is "desperately trying" to cling on.

The mother of Leah Heyes,, 15, who died after taking MDMA is urging families to talk about drugs.

The Cadillac Celestiq is an ultra-luxury electric four-door fastback that will be built in limited quantities custom tailored to the buyer with no two alike.

Joy and Norman Cummings, from Linlithgow lost their daughter in 1971 with virtually no support.

A former police officer facing a drug charge burst into a day care center in Thailand, killing dozens of preschoolers and teachers and then shooting more people as he fled.

The move, which reflects a slowing global economy, is expected to raise oil prices around the world.

Mum of Tony Hickmott, who has been held in a secure hospital since 2001, says: "He's coming home."

A famed extreme skier from the United States who was killed after falling from one of the world’s tallest mountains was on Sunday given a traditional funeral at a Sherpa cremation ground as Buddhist monks officiated over a ceremony attended by family, friends and government officials.

Authorities say a gunman has killed 17 people and wounded 24 others in a school in central Russia.

A massive fire has sent flames and black smoke pouring from a 42-story skyscraper in central China belonging to the country’s largest telecoms operator, but no casualties were immediately reported.

A man who may have been keeping a wild kangaroo as a pet has been killed by the animal in southwest Australia.

Chinese state media say a man has been found safe after he spent two days aloft in a hydrogen balloon, traveling about 320 kilometers (200 miles), after it became untethered and flew away while he was using it to harvest pine nuts from a tree.

A woman sailing on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship that set sail from Port Canaveral was killed in a shark attack.

Fears are running high on an Indigenous reserve in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan after police warned that the suspect in a deadly stabbing rampage over the weekend might be nearby and officers surrounded a house with guns drawn.

A video shows an amusement park ride in India crashing to the ground with dozens of people on board.

Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, has died at 91, Russian media reported Thursday.

The UN says a "climate catastrophe" has led to more than 1,100 deaths as it launches a big aid appeal.

A 17-year-old pilot has become the youngest person to fly solo around the world in a small aircraft after he landed in Bulgaria.

As Russia’s war against Ukraine reaches the sixth-month mark, many refugees are coming to the bitter realization that they will not be returning home soon.

Deaths are reported in France, Austria and Italy in violent storms after weeks of heat and drought.

Two roller coaster trains crashed into each other at an amusement park in southern Germany, and German media report that at least 34 people were injured, two of them severely.

Authorities say a French woman has been injured when attacked by a polar bear in Norway’s remote Arctic Svalbard Islands.

The family of a comatose boy who have fought to prevent doctors from ending his life-support treatment have filed a legal action requesting permission to move their son from a London hospital to a hospice.

The family of a comatose British boy at the center of a life-support battle says it has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights in a last-ditch bid to stop a hospital ending his treatment.

Russian media have reported that a chess-playing robot broke the finger of a seven-year-old boy during the Moscow Chess Open tournament.

The move would allow the president to push his renewable energy agenda, which is stalled in Congress.

Thousands of homes are under threat as firefighters battle fast spreading blaze in sweltering heatwave.

Duke of Sussex highlights climate "havoc" and appears to refer to overturning of US abortion rights.

NASA astronauts will go back to riding Russian rockets under a new agreement.

People are being warned of heat risks to their health amid forecasts of record-breaking temperatures.

Simple advice from a friend to stay near the door may have saved Yenifer Yulisa Cardona Tomás from the deadly fate that befell 53 other migrants when they were abandoned trapped in a sweltering semi-trailer last week in Texas.

Danish police say three people were killed and three others are in critical condition after a shooting at a shopping mall in Copenhagen.

Police say they have discovered more than 110 dangerous snakes on a farm in central Germany after a woman who lived there sought medical treatment for a poisonous bite.

Its defence chief tells Asian partners that "devastating" climate change is his top security issue.

Supermarket chief says a review of how shops could use pounds and inches again is "utter nonsense".

Director-general Tim Davie says the move is part of a raft of cost-saving measures.

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The buy now pay later firm plans to axe around 700 workers ahead of a "likely recession".

World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury retained his WBC title with a brutal sixth-round stoppage of fellow Briton Dillian Whyte in front of more than 94,000 spectators at Wembley Stadium on Saturday. A right uppercut from Fury sent Whyte to the canvas and the champion raised his right hand in celebration. Whyte, who appeared to lose a tooth from the mighty punch, got to his feet and tried to show he was ready to continue but then staggered, leading the referee to end the fight.

The WHO chief says a fraction of the help given to Ukraine has been given to other humanitarian crises.

Shares in a company planning to buy Donald Trump's new social media business plunged Monday on a news report that two key staff members left, deepening losses from last week when it said it would miss a deadline to file its annual financial statements. Digital World Acquisition Corp. closed Monday down 10% following a Reuters report that the chief technology officer and chief products officer had left the company, citing two anonymous sources.

Bucha, Irpin and more - this is where civilians' bodies have been found scattered around as Russian troops pulled out.

Beyoncé and Billie Eilish will perform their nominated songs at Sunday's Oscars, the film academy announced Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Eilish and her brother and co-writer Finneas will perform “No Time To Die” from the James Bond film of the same name. The 007 song by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell has won a Golden Globe, a Grammy and now an Oscar for best original song. Having recorded the track at the age of 18, Eilish officially became the youngest-ever recording artist to work on a James Bond theme song. Three songs written by Billie Eilish and Finneas made it on the "Turning Red" soundtrack, pulling heavily from the likes of (asterisk)NSYNC and Backstreet Boys.

PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. — Port Canaveral’s cargo business is booming, but there is more demand than space available. Port officials hope a major renovation underway will help the port expand its operations and accommodate larger ships. It’s considered obsolete, but construction underway right now will allow for larger ships to dock and increase the port’s cargo capacity. Photos: Port Canaveral expanding to allow larger ships as cargo business boomsExpand Autoplay Image 1 of 13 Photos: Port Canaveral expanding to allow larger ships as cargo business boomsPort Canaveral’s North Cargo Berth 3 Renovation Project is well underway. And the port’s cargo business is only getting more diverse.

Beyoncé and Billie Eilish will perform their nominated songs at Sunday's Oscars, the film academy announced Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Eilish and her brother and co-writer Finneas will perform “No Time To Die” from the James Bond film of the same name. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File) (Matt Dunham)LOS ANGELES — (AP) — Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and other nominees for best original song will perform at Sunday's Oscars, the show's producers announced Tuesday. Sebastián Yatra will perform "Dos Oruguitas," the nominated song from "Encanto" written by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Van Morrison, who wrote and sings the nominated song “Down to Joy” from “Belfast,” will not be able to make the show because of his touring schedule.

SEE: World’s longest car, complete with helipad and jacuzzi, cruises into OrlandoMembers of the American Red Cross of Central Florida and Orlando Fire Rescue headed out into the neighborhood on Saturday. They installed 83 free smoke alarms in nearly 60 homes. Photos: Orange County firefighters, Red Cross volunteers install free smoke alarms in ParramoreExpand Autoplay Image 1 of 4 Orange County firefighters, Red Cross volunteers install free smoke alarms in ParramoreFirefighters also helped educate people living in the Parramore community about home fire safety. READ: Florida spring break shooting: 3 shot in South BeachThis was all part of the American Red Cross’ Home Fire Campaign, which started in 2014. AdventHealth is seeking to fill hundreds of positions across Central FloridaThe American Red Cross said it responds to a disaster every eight minutes, and the vast majority are home fires that claim around seven lives every day.

The boss of food firm 2 Sisters warns prices will jump as a result of the war in Ukraine.

Farmers are calling for urgent government action to help them produce enough to feed the nation.

So Solid Crew, Tinie Tempah and DJ Semtex are among the artists paying tribute to the jungle star.

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