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Taiwan’s emergency response units worked for a second day to reach hundreds of miners, hotel staff and tourists who were stranded by debris and road closures more than a day after the island was struck by its biggest earthquake in 25 years.

Cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas are stalling again, Israeli officials say, with large gaps between the sides over hostages, prisoners and the future of Gaza.

Eight Bronx men were charged Wednesday with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of beer, mostly Modelo and Corona imported from Mexico, by robbing train yards and warehouses in dozens of thefts across the Northeast over the past two years.

The USS Boxer, one of the Navy's key "mini-carriers," has left San Diego for the Indo-Pacific following a series of costly engineering problems a Navy probe says could have been avoided.

Japan and the United States will announce a policy to strengthen “strategic cooperation” in areas such as security and advanced technology in a joint statement to be released in conjunction with a summit meeting between Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington in April.

Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in a quarter century leveled dozens of buildings on the eastern side of the island, killing at least nine people and disrupting semiconductor production at some of the world’s leading chipmakers.

President Vladimir Putin is determined to grind Ukraine into submission, betting he can outlast Kyiv’s Western backers and claim victory on the battlefield even as Russian troops make only halting progress.

JERUSALEM – Israel is telling the world that the last battle of the Gaza war will take place in a sand–blown city on the Egyptian border.

Iran vowed revenge on Israel after blaming it for a deadly air strike on its embassy in Syria — a rare direct confrontation in the adversaries’ escalating conflict over the war in Gaza.

Seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen were killed in an air strike by the Israeli military in Gaza, the disaster relief group founded by celebrity chef José Andrés said in a post on X. The U.S.-based group has helped oversee the construction of a pier and the delivery of aid through it to the northern Gaza Strip, where humanitarian agencies say hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are ...

Ukrainian drones struck Russia’s Tatarstan region early Tuesday for the first time since the start of the invasion, hitting targets that included a refinery about 930 miles from the border between the two countries.

It’s doubtful that James Bond would let his local village officials stop him from making any kind of improvements to his historic U.K. home, especially if he needed to create a private lake in his back yard so he could practice boat chases or rescues of Bond girls drowning in Venetian canals.

North Korea fired at least one suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile in a show of force that came just days ahead of national elections in South Korea for parliamentary seats.

At least three senior commanders and four officers overseeing Iran’s covert operations in the Middle East were killed Monday when Israeli warplanes struck a building in Damascus, Syria, that is part of the Iranian Embassy complex, according to Iranian and Syrian officials.

Gaza’s largest hospital has been gutted. Combat bulldozers have moved sand into the courtyards. The buildings are scorched. It smells like death. Israeli commandos pulled out before dawn on Monday.

India forecast hotter-than-usual temperatures over the coming months, raising the risk of water shortages, crop damages and higher coal use to avoid power blackouts in the planet’s most populous nation.