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NATO presses Turkey to approve Sweden’s membership, eyes Ukraine security plan as summit looms

The 31-member alliance is also looking at boosting Ukraine’s non-member status

Jun 1, 2023 8:41 AM Read more >

Threat to Queen Elizabeth during 1983 US trip detailed in FBI documents

The queen’s West Coast visit with her husband, Prince Philip, included a stop in San Francisco in March 1983

Jun 1, 2023 1:30 AM Read more >

China’s industry minister, Tesla’s Musk meet, discuss electric cars

Communist Party is trying to revive investor interest in China’s slowing economy

May 31, 2023 4:00 PM Read more >

Coast Guard suspends search for 4 missing after Alaska charter boat found partially submerged

The search spanned more than 20 hours and covered about 825 square miles

May 31, 2023 10:37 AM Read more >

Canadian Afghan advisers take government to court over alleged discrimination

Application alleges the government provided ‘superior immigration benefits’ to Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion

May 30, 2023 4:15 PM Read more >

Supporters of missing human-rights defender say he is being detained in China

A statement says that Dong Guangping is being held in the Zhengzhou No. 3 Detention Centre

May 30, 2023 4:00 PM Read more >

Elizabeth Holmes enters Texas prison to begin 11-year sentence for notorious blood-testing hoax

Holmes grew up aspiring to become a technology visionary along the lines of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs

May 30, 2023 3:15 PM Read more >

Russia says drones lightly damage Moscow buildings before dawn, while Ukraine’s capital bombarded

2 people received treatment for unspecified injuries

May 30, 2023 9:22 AM Read more >

Israeli army says Palestinian gunmen killed Israeli civilian in West Bank shooting

It came a day after Jewish settlers erected a religious seminary in a nearby dismantled settlement outpost

May 30, 2023 9:21 AM Read more >

Biden marks Memorial Day lauding generations of fallen US troops who ‘dared all and gave all’

President and the first lady were scheduled to return to their home near Wilmington, Delaware

May 29, 2023 2:30 PM Read more >