Desperate Venezuelans battled Thursday to rescue loved ones trapped alive beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings after two major earthquakes that killed at least 188 people.
Top US diplomat Marco Rubio said Thursday that there were limits to what Washington would accept in any deal with Iran, warning that permitting Tehran to charge fees in the Strait of Hormuz would open the door to "total chaos".
Colombia's hard-right president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella on Thursday gave the country's guerrilla groups one month to surrender, taking a tough stand on an issue that helped propel him to victory.
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Apple said Thursday it was raising prices for its MacBook computers, iPad tablets and other products, citing spiraling memory and storage costs sparked by the rise of artificial intelligence.
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Human Rights Watch on Thursday denounced Turkey's arrest of over 200 people ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara, saying it showed a "ruthless intolerance" of freedom of speech and assembly.
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Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, fresh from a spat with US leader Donald Trump, on Thursday met French President Emmanuel Macron to build on a nascent rapprochement and tighten ties.
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Double Formula One champion Fernando Alonso said he was committed to Aston Martin on Thursday despite being linked to othe teams, but did not rule out leaving Formula One to race in a different series next year.
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The US Supreme Court on Thursday backed a Trump administration move to strip deportation protections from some 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians living in the United States.
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Desperate Venezuelans battled Thursday to rescue loved ones trapped alive beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings after two major earthquakes that killed at least 164 people.
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South Africans President Cyril Ramaphosa vowed on Thursday to crush any attempts to destabilise the nation during planned anti-immigrant marches next week, amid a wave of xenophobia.
England captain Ben Stokes's endured a frustrating return to international duty as an unbroken opening stand between New Zealand skipper Tom Latham and Devon Conway continued to deny the hosts a breakthrough in the third Test at Trent Bridge.
Poland and Ukraine tried to strike a conciliatory tone Thursday as they opened the annual Ukraine Recovery Conference in the Polish port of Gdansk after weeks of squabbling over historical differences -- albeit without President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Kenyan police shut down much of the capital with a massive security operation on Thursday to prevent protests marking two years since a landmark "Gen Z" uprising.
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Once relics of a bygone way of life, the iconic dry-stone dwellings with conical roofs dotted across Puglia are in increasing demand as cool havens in Italy's sweltering south.
At least 101 million Europeans were forecast to swelter in temperatures of over 35C on Thursday, as scores of people were thought to have been killed by the heatwave.
A French court ordered oil and gas giant TotalEnergies on Thursday to account for the emissions from the use of its products by clients, in a high-stakes climate case brought by NGOs and the city of Paris.
French teaching unions on Thursday called for a strike to protest "unacceptable working conditions" as a severe heatwave shatters temperature records in the country.
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- US Fed's preferred inflation gauge hits fresh three-year high
- Venezuela twin quakes kill at least 164 with many trapped under rubble
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