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KYIV, Ukraine -- My great-grandfather Jacob Estrin, who was from Ukraine, said goodbye to his family and landed at Ellis Island in 1912. Eight days later, the Titanic sink. According to family legend, his mother...

Unexpectedly, Afghanistan's Taliban rulers decided not to reopen schools Wednesday for girls above sixth grade. They reneged on a promise and chose to appease their hardline base at the cost of further alienating international...

Beijing -- A teenage Russian figure skater, Kamila Valieva, has been cleared to compete at the women's competition at The Winter Olympics. The Court of Arbitration for Sport issued its ruling within 12 hours of an extremely rushed...

Barcelona defeated Real Madrid 5-2 at the Camp Nou Stadium in the Champions League on Wednesday. This was a world record crowd of over 91,000. Barcelona organizers claimed that 91,553 people attended the event. The previous...

Tuesday's vote by Ethiopian lawmakers to end the country’s three-month-old state of emergency was a sign that mediation efforts to end the deadly war in northern Ethiopia continue. After Ethiopia's Council of Ministers was chaired...

Tens of thousands of Russians protested Alexei Navalny's arrest in January 2021. They demanded that the top Kremlin critic be freed and shouted slogans against President Vladimir Putin. Many were detained. Putin has launched the most...

Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary Of State, and his Japanese- and South Korean counterparts met Saturday in Hawaii to discuss North Korea's nuclear threat after Pyongyang launched a series missile tests. Blinken met in Honolulu alongside...

Wednesday's threat by Amazon to be investigated criminally was carried out by lawmakers. They asked the Justice Department to investigate if Amazon and its senior executives conspired to obstruct Congress or violated federal laws...

Simba, a lion named Akyla and a wolf called Akyla were evacuated from a Ukrainian zoo and taken to safety in Romania. The operation was described by animal rights groups as a four-day task...

Before the advent of COVID-19 tuberculosis had been the most deadly infectious disease. How did it become the terrible plague that it is today? This is the question Vidya Krishnan, a science journalist, explores in her book Phantom...