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Financial markets are in turmoil this week after the United Kingdom unveiled a series of historic tax cuts. The pound's value plunged, the International Monetary Fund urged the U.K. to reverse course and economist Larry Summers derided the move as "utterly irresponsible."

The U.S. Embassy in Moscow has warned all Americans in Russia to flee immediately in the wake of President Vladimir Putin's 'partial mobilization' decree.

Two air force fighter jets escorted a Singapore Airlines passenger plane traveling from San Francisco after a bomb threat allegedly made by a passenger on board -- which turned out to be false.

The ruptures in two undersea gas pipelines from Russia have unsettled European officials and exposed the vulnerability of the continent’s energy infrastructure.

Studies support the idea that the effects of trauma can reverberate down generations through epigenetics.

Hurricane Ian knocked out power across all of Cuba and devastated some of the country's most important tobacco farms when it slammed into the island's western tip as a major hurricane Tuesday.

Former presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard joins "Tucker Carlson Tonight" to outline America's role in settling global conflicts, such as the Russia-Ukraine war.

zUnited Nations — Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke live by video conference on Tuesday to world powers at the U.N. Security Council, slamming the illegitimate votes that Russia is forcing on citizens in occupied Ukraine. His speech came as Moscow-backed officials declared that all four regions voted in favor of joining Russia.

North Korean defectors speak out about challenges escaping and adjusting to life in a modern society. Kim Jong Un's regime has been accused of multiple human rights abuses.

The Kremlin paved the way Tuesday to annex part of Ukraine and escalate the war by claiming that residents of a large swath of occupied Ukraine overwhelmingly supported joining with Russia in stage-managed referendums that the U.S. and its Western allies have dismissed as illegitimate.

A Swedish seismologist says that leaks at the site of the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea were caused by explosions, not earthquakes.

King Charles III's new monogram was revealed Tuesday as the official period of mourning for his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, came to a close. The emblem, known as the king's cypher, will appear on government buildings, state documents and some post boxes in the coming months and years.

Russia on Tuesday claimed to have received up to 98% support in push to annex four regions in Ukrainian following what Western officials have dubbed a 'sham' election.

Vietnam enacted a curfew and evacuated more than 800,000 citizens after Typhoon Noru flooded several villages and left 8 dead in the Philippines on Tuesday.

Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi, a religious leader who led Arab revolts and championed the Arab Spring uprisings in 2011, has died at 96 years old.

Tehran has accused the U.S. and Europe of meddling in the nationwide protests over human rights abuses to boost its own self interests

Johannesburg — A mother has been killed in the second deadly shark attack to hit the same popular tourist area this year. South Africa's National Sea Rescue Institute said it was alerted just before 8 a.m. on Sunday morning and immediately launched a sea rescue craft off a beach in the Plettenberg Bay area. 

Ian was forecast to strengthen even more over warm Gulf of Mexico waters, reaching top winds of 140 mph before making landfall again.

Russian-led referendums in eastern and southern Ukraine are set to wrap Tuesday with results expected to claim support for Russian annexation.

The Kremlin-led polls have drawn broad international condemnation.

A rare moderate official in the Taliban is advocating to let girls continue school past middle school after the Taliban banned girls from attending middle and high school last August.

Syrian authorities have recovered 100 bodies from a Lebanese migrant boat that sank off Syria last week, state media reported about one of the deadliest recent shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean. The first bodies were found last Thursday and only 20 people were rescued out of as many as 150 passengers, officials said.

Newsy's Sasha Ingber and a small group of other descendants of Holocaust survivors met in D.C. where they welcomed a historian to give them insight.

The Kremlin’s spokesman tried to shift blame for errors in the call-up to regional agencies on Monday, the same day a gunman attacked a draft office in Siberia.

Russian officials are in "very sporadic" contact with the United States about nuclear issues, a spokesperson for the Kremlin said on Monday.

Ross Douthat, a New York Times columnist, argued that there may come a time when U.S. interests diverge from Ukraine's in order to prevent nuclear war.

The family of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in the custody of Iran's morality police, is speaking out as the anti-government protests sparked by her death grow louder. 

Snowden, a former contractor for the NSA, has lived in Russia since 2013 to escape prosecution in the U.S. for leaking classified documents.

Syria’s outbreak of cholera has infected 230 people and killed 29 people. The United Nations says this is the war-torn country’s worst outbreak in years.

State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Monday that U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden "may well be conscripted to fight in Russia's war in Ukraine."

Russia will impose harsh penalties on troops who voluntarily surrender to Ukrainian forces, imposing a 10-year prison sentence on those who fall into enemy hands.

Giorgia Meloni, poised to be the country’s first far-right leader since Mussolini, says she supports Ukraine and has moderated her harsh views on Europe, but there are doubts, given her partners.

At least 41 people are dead and more than 1,200 arrested as protests continue to spread across Iran. The regime has threatened a violent crackdown against demonstrators.

After opening fire at a school in Russia, which educates grades one to 11, the gunman then shot himself dead.

Typhoon Noru left a trail of destruction in northern Philippine provinces on Monday with at least eight people dead, including a group of rescuers who were scrambling to save villagers trapped in floodwaters, officials said.

Early results suggest that she could be Italy’s next prime minister, the first woman to hold the position, and the first with post-Fascist roots. It will still be weeks before a new government is formed.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Atlantic Canada remained without power Sunday and officials said they found the body of a woman swept into the sea after former Hurricane Fiona washed away houses, stripped off roofs and blocked roads across the country's Atlantic provinces.

This will be the vice president's second trip to Asia since taking office in January 2021.

As president and CEO of World Vision I recently visited a remote part of Kenya. What I experienced taught me three valuable lessons about family, community and faith.

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters canceled scheduled concerts in Poland following outrage over his controversial stance on Russia's war in Ukraine.

Amid growing repression, a sickly economy and bleak prospects, the death of one young woman was all it took.

United Nations — As the U.N. General Assembly winds to a close on Monday, the focus on the horrific images of death and destruction in Ukraine during hundreds of world leaders' speeches underscored the inability of the United Nations to prevent or to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 

Britain's royal family shared a photo on Saturday of the ledger stone marking the final resting place of Queen Elizabeth II, who died two weeks ago at the age of 96. She is interred in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, which is in the larger St. George's Chapel in Windsor.

The incident was the deadliest so far as a surging number of Lebanese, Syrians, and Palestinians have been trying to flee Lebanon by sea to Europe.

Russian human rights activist details the experience of Russian protestors when they stand up against their government. They must keep quite or face violent punishment when protesting.

Russian forces launched new deadly strikes overnight in Ukrainian cities, including Zaporizhzhia, where Kremlin-staged voting is underway. Saturday marks the second day that people in Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine are voting on whether to become part of Russia. 

Newly proposed bipartisan legislation introduced Thursday aims to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. It's being called the Solidify Iran Sanctions Act.

Taiwan's Counsel General James J.K. Lee rallies the world to help Taiwan amid growing threats from China. Taiwan continues to face daily threats from Beijing.

Finland became the latest European nation to close its borders to Russia's as thousands attempt to flee following Putin's order to send more conscripts to Ukraine.

NSC Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby echoed State Secretary Blinken's assessment that disagreement over the Iran nuclear deal has increased in recent weeks.