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Seeking more U.S. aid, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy will visit Washington

6:05pm December 11, 2023

by Deirdre Walsh

Ukrainian President Zelensky is coming to Washington Tuesday to make a plea for Congress to approve more money to help in the country's war against Russia.

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Young doctors are at COP28, and they've got a message for world leaders

6:05pm December 11, 2023

by Alejandra Borunda

Young doctors at COP28 say the climate crisis is a health crisis. And they're energized to solve both at the same time.

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A screen shows jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny as he arrives to listen to a hearing on an appeal lodged against a court decision to jail him for 19 years in a maximum security prison on extremism-linked charges, at a court in Moscow on Sept. 26.

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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has gone missing, his spokesperson says

2:06pm December 11, 2023

by Charles Maynes

Lawyers of jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny say they have not been able to confirm his whereabouts for several days, raising concern among his allies for his health and safety.

Sir David Attenborough with the restored pliosaur skull in the workshop of the Etches Collection Museum, Kimmeridge, Dorset, UK.

Scientists have found the mostly intact skull of a giant, deadly sea reptile

11:34am December 11, 2023

by Joe Hernandez

The pliosaur, which existed millions of years ago, would chomp down with its 130 teeth in a bite far stronger than a crocodile's and had a third eye for locating prey.

Veteran Chinese AIDS campaigner Doctor Gao Yaojie, right, talks with students about AIDS prevention during a series of university lectures in Shanghai, Nov. 30 2006.

Gao Yaojie, a pioneering activist who exposed China's AIDS epidemic, dies at 95

9:43am December 11, 2023

by Emily Feng

A trained gynecologist, Gao became well-known across China for her relentless activism in exposing a man-made AIDS crisis and for her educational work to remove the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS.

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An $800,000 diamond ring lost in Paris turned up at an unexpected place

7:11am December 11, 2023

A woman lost a diamond ring at the Ritz Paris and kicked off a search campaign by hotel and security staff.

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Morning news brief

5:06am December 11, 2023

World policy leaders meeting in Qatar discuss war in Gaza. Donald Trump plans to skip testifying for a second time in the New York civil fraud trial. Argentine President Javier Milei is inaugurated.

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Palestinian Hamas militants are seen during an event in the Bani Suheila district of Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on July 20, 2017.

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With the Israel-Hamas war, Sunni and Shia armed groups find uncommon unity

5:00am December 11, 2023

by Jane Arraf

The war draws together Iran-backed Shia and Sunni militants in what appears to be closer cooperation between groups that differ in ideology but are united by opposition to Israel and the U.S.

Dmytro Orlov, the exiled mayor of Enerhodar, in his office at a community center in Zaporizhzhia.

With an inconclusive counteroffensive, Ukraine looks toward an anxious winter

5:00am December 11, 2023

by Joanna Kakissis

Ukraine's government acknowledges the gains in its most recent counteroffensive have been small. And it worries Western allies are distracted by the war between Israel and Hamas.

Argentina's newly sworn-in President Javier Milei speaks outside the Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023.

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In first speech, Argentina's Javier Milei warns nation of painful economic shock

1:34am December 11, 2023

by The Associated Press

Argentina's newly empowered President Javier Milei presented figures to lay bare the scope of the nation's economic "emergency," and sought to prepare the public for drastic public spending cuts.