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CANBERRA, Australia — Legendary Vietnam War photographer, writer and counter-culture documenter Tim Page died Wednesday at his Australian home. He was 78 years old. The British-born, self-taught photographer died of liver cancer with friends at his bedside at his rural home at Fernmount in New South Wales state, friends posted […]

NIKOPOL, Ukraine — Ukrainians are once again anxious and alarmed about the fate of a nuclear power plant in a land that was home to the world’s worst atomic accident in 1986 at Chernobyl. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, has been occupied by Russian forces since the early days […]

HONG KONG — A tropical storm was forecast to make landfall in southern China later Thursday after bringing rain and stiff winds to Hong Kong overnight as it passed to the south of the Asian financial center. China’s National Meteorological Center said Tropical Storm Ma-on was heading northwest at 30 […]

A California man has pleaded guilty to importing wild animals into the country, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles announced Wednesday. Prosecutors said Jose Manuel Perez, 30, smuggled more than 1,700 wild animals, including 60 reptiles, worth $739,000 into the U.S. and was arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border in February. Officials […]

LONDON — At least one of the Palestinian NGOs raided and shuttered by Israeli forces last week has already resumed work. Shawan Jabarin, the director of Al-Haq, categorically denied Israel’s allegations in an interview with ABC News, describing them as “baseless.” Al-Haq is one of the first-ever human rights organizations […]

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Thursday said it found four new fever cases in its border region with China that may have been caused by coronavirus infections, two weeks after leader Kim Jong Un declared a widely disputed victory over COVID-19. North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency […]

President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Kim Cheatle to lead the United States Secret Service, the White House announced. “Kim has had a long and distinguished career at the Secret Service, having risen through the ranks during her 27 years with the agency, becoming the first woman in the role […]

Disgraced former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been granted an appeal in his New York sexual assault case. The New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, agreed Wednesday to hear his appeal of his 2020 sex crimes conviction in Manhattan. Weinstein, 70, was sentenced to 23 years following […]

CHICAGO — Four people near a high school on Chicago’s Northwest Side were wounded in a drive-by shooting Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. The four people — three juveniles and an adult — were outside an ice cream shop across the street from Carl Schurz High School when they were shot, […]

HARTFORD, Conn. — A new lawsuit has exposed a deep rift between two of Paul Newman’s daughters and the late actor’s charitable foundation funded by profits from the Newman’s Own line of food and drink products. The daughters, Susan Kendall Newman and Nell Newman, allege their own charity organizations are […]