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Videos posted to social media on Monday show anarchic scenes at Kabul International Airport, with hopeful evacuees scrambling to catch a flight out of the country amid bursts of gunfire.  At least three people were shot and killed near the passenger terminal of the airport, the Wall Street Journal reported. Graphic …

Haiti’s civil protection agency raised the death toll on Sunday morning, a day after the country was shaken by a magnitude-7.2 earthquake. The quake struck the island nation’s southern peninsula, collapsing buildings in several towns and leaving streets strewn with rubble. A government press release noted that 500 people had …

The incident prompted a massive response from police and rescues. An array of ambulance cars have been spotted on the scene. The incident occurred around 12:40 p.m. on Saturday, and all of those hurt were taken to hospitals, some with serious injuries, New York State Police said in a statement. …

Panta Petrovic, who says he lives part of the year in a cave near the Serbian town of Pirot, became an overnight sensation after media outlets applauded his pro-vaccination stance, despite his allegedly extreme “social distancing” lifestyle. According to news agency AFP, the Serbian “hermit” got jabbed after Covid-19 vaccines became available, and urged everyone …

The highest possible Level 5 “special” weather warning was issued for Saga, Nagasaki and Fukuoka prefectures in the country’s southwest on Saturday, as rains continue to batter parts of Japan. Earlier, the same warning was issued for the city of Hiroshima after several rivers running through the region were deemed …

During the Tokyo Olympics that recently limped past us, I had a handful of friends and readers urge me to take on the controversial subject of superstar athlete Simone Biles and her withdrawal from competition for her gymnastics-related mental health issues.  Some suggested I comment on the softer than rotten …

“It’s time for us to resist. They can’t arrest all of us. They can’t keep all of your kids home from school. They can’t keep every government building closed – although I’ve kept a long list of ones they should,” Paul said in the video posted to his Twitter account.  …

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed a lot about social inequality, and led to a lot of talk about the impact of the pandemic on various groups of people. One of the biggest concerns was the revelation that there were disparities in the risks and outcomes of Covid-19 among BAME people, …

Cuomo engaged in “unwelcome and nonconsensual touching” as well as making comments of a “suggestive” sexual nature, creating a “hostile work environment for women,” state Attorney General Letitia James declared on Tuesday as she released the findings of a months-long investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by the three-term Democratic …

Despite being picked up by a major American publishing house, the Rupert Murdoch-owned HarperCollins, Belton displayed a profound lack of journalistic judgement in how she conducted the research behind her explosive claims. And that’s coming back to bite her. In one lawsuit brought by Mikhail Fridman and Pyotr Aven, the …