(LONDON) -- King Charles III, 75, has cancer, Buckingham Palace announced on Monday. "During The King’s recent hospital procedure for benign prostate enlargement, a separate issue of concern was noted," Buckingham Palace said in a statement. "Subsequent diagnostic tests have identified a form of cancer." On Monday, Charles started "a…
(NEW YORK) -- Ten people died from unprovoked shark attacks globally in 2023, a slight uptick over the five-year average, according to a Florida-based database that tracks the rare events. After investigating 121 alleged shark-human interactions worldwide last year, the Florida Museum of Natural History’s International Shark Attack File determined…
(NEW YORK) -- The United States on Friday began to carry out airstrikes against Iran-backed militants and Iranian military targets in Iraq and Syria in retaliation for a drone attack on an American base in Jordan on Jan. 28 that killed three U.S. service members. Dozens of other American troops…
(WASHINGTON) -- After carrying out dozens of strikes in Iraq and Syria last week, the U.S. will take "more action" against Iran-backed militants in response to a deadly drone attack on an American base in Jordan, the White House's national security adviser said Sunday. "This was the beginning of our response,…
(PARIS) -- The schedule for Notre Dame's grand reopening in December was announced Saturday in a pastoral letter from Archbishop of Paris Mgr. Laurent Ulrich. The cathedral was heavily damaged in an April 2019 fire, causing the collapse of the landmark's upper section including its famous spire. The reopening of…
(LONDON) -- At least three people were killed and 298 others were injured late Thursday when a gas explosion sparked an inferno in Kenya's capital as residents were asleep, authorities said. A fire resulting from a gas explosion was reported in the Mradi area of Nairobi's Embakasi neighborhood at 11:30…
(NEW YORK) -- An American woman freed after being held hostage in Gaza and the families of two men killed in the Oct. 7 attack in Israel sued Binance, the leading cryptocurrency exchange, which they accused of providing a funding mechanism for Hamas. The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court…
(LONDON) -- The possibility of a "full-fledged famine" looms large across the entire Gaza Strip amid the Israel-Hamas war, humanitarian groups have warned -- but especially in northern Gaza, where some people there say they're using bird feed in place of flour to stave off starvation. Northern Gaza has been…
(LONDON) -- Nearly eight million people have been displaced by the war in Sudan as the conflict enters its 10th month, the United Nation has announced. The conflict, which erupted on April 15, 2023, between the Rapid Support Forces Paramilitary group (RSF) and the Sudanese Army (SAF) after weeks of…
(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. military forces early Thursday morning conducted what Central Command called a “self-defense” strike against Houthi unmanned aerial vehicles and a ground control station. According to Centcom, the U.S. had identified a UAV ground control station and a number of UAVs in the Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen. The…
