7+ hour, 2+ min ago   (925+ words) The Ebola epidemic in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has now spread to a sixth province in the country. Concerns are growing that the life-threatening infectious disease could reach the capital, Kinshasa, which is home…...

6+ hour, 14+ min ago   (520+ words) A three-week military offensive in the Gaza Strip in 2009, which killed more than 1,400 people, including an estimated 1,100 civilians, spurred Venezuela’s Socialist president at the time, Hugo Chavez, to expel the Israeli ambassador in protest and end diplomatic relations. Seventeen years…...

6+ hour, 38+ min ago   (683+ words) Less than a month before the five-year anniversary of the Taliban retaking power in Afghanistan, the Islamist regime lost control of the Yaftal-e Payeen district capital in the northeastern province of Badakhshan. The disruption was temporary, but it nevertheless marked…...

7+ hour, 43+ min ago   (930+ words) North Korea is preparing a massive troop surge to help its ally Moscow in its war on Ukraine, with up to 50,000 North Koreans to be deployed in Russia, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In late July, the Ukrainian leader…...

8+ hour, 16+ min ago   (1024+ words) With its grain fields, meadows and lake, the countryside around the tiny village of Konotopie in central Poland is idyllic. Now, it’s dominated by a towering statue of the Virgin Mary. Home to just 120 residents and situated about 160 kilometers (99 miles)…...

8+ hour, 54+ min ago   (308+ words) BEIJING — A Chinese container vessel has set sail for Europe through the Arctic, part of new weekly service on a route that cuts shipment times in half but which environmental groups warn could speed up the melting of polar ice....

9+ hour, 22+ min ago   (118+ words) SYDNEY — A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off the coast of South Pacific nation Vanuatu on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. The tremor’s epicentre was about 56 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of the small coastal village of Port Olry, at a depth of…...

10+ hour, 29+ min ago   (164+ words) Indonesia plans to amend its citizenship law to allow dual nationality for some of its people, President Prabowo Subianto said Friday. In a speech outlining the draft state budget for next year, Prabowo said, “I conveyed to the parliament the…...

10+ hour, 35+ min ago   (113+ words) Inquirer.net Japan PM Takaichi avoids mentioning ‘remorse’ over WWII in anniv speech Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made no mention of Japan’s “remorse” over World War II in her speech at a memorial service in Tokyo on Saturday to mourn…...

11+ hour, 22+ min ago   (664+ words) TANEGASHIMA SPACE CENTER, Japan — Japanese scientists are readying a mission to Mars’ moons to retrieve samples that may unlock the origins of the Solar System and life on Earth, although a rival Chinese mission aims to make it back first....