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Rhino poaching on the rise in South Africa, new figures show
Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images(PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA) -- Rhino poaching increased in South Africa in 2023, the government said.The new data, released by South African officia...
Feb 28, 2024
UC Santa Barbara student body president allegedly targeted with 'antisemitic' signs on campus
Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images(SANTA BARBARA, C.A.) -- The student body president at the University of California, Santa Barbara is calling out alleged antisemitism on campus after she s...
Feb 28, 2024
Pope Francis visits Rome's Gemelli hospital for tests, returns to Vatican
TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images(ROME) -- Pope Francis on Wednesday visited Rome's Gemelli hospital following his general audience at the Vatican, the Vatican said."After the general audience Pope Fr...
Feb 28, 2024
Russian hackers using 'compromised' internet routers for cyber operations, US, international law enforcement warn
Master/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Federal and international law enforcement are warning of Russian cyber actors using "compromised" internet routers for cyber operations.Russian state-sponsored hacke...
Feb 28, 2024
'The worst situation I've ever seen': Aid workers reveal conditions of those living in Gaza
Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images(GAZA) -- For the last 25 years, pediatrician Dr. John Kahler has participated in humanitarian aid missions around the world from Syria to Haiti to Tanzania.Despite...
Feb 28, 2024
Russia jails well-known activist who criticized Ukraine war
Hannah Wagner/picture alliance via Getty Images(MOSCOW) -- One of Russia's best-known human rights defenders was sentenced by a Moscow court Tuesday to two and a half years in prison for criticizing t...
Feb 27, 2024
Americans missing from boat in the Caribbean: A timeline
Suellen Desmarais(NEW YORK) -- It's been over one week since an American couple went missing from their yacht in the Caribbean after three escaped prisoners boarded their boat.Police said Monday that ...
Feb 27, 2024
Armed bandits rob migrants crossing border illegally, border patrol chief says
Jason Owens/U.S. Border Patrol(WASHINGTON) -- A group of “armed bandits” near the U.S. southern border attempted to rob migrants crossing illegally, according to U.S. Border Patrol Chief J...
Feb 27, 2024
Alexei Navalny was raised in preliminary prisoner swap talks before his death: Official
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny attends a rally in support of political prisoners in Prospekt Sakharova Street in Moscow, Sept. 29, 2019. (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)(NEW YO...
Feb 27, 2024
Life on Mars: How volunteers in NASA's Mars simulator will live for a year
Bill Stafford/NASA(NEW YORK) -- NASA is offering volunteers an otherworldly experience here on Earth where participants eat, live and communicate as if they were over 200 miles away in space.Paving th...
Feb 27, 2024