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Taiwan has shuttered offices, schools and tourist sites across the island ahead of a powerful typhoon due to make landfall later Wednesday

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Yonhap news agency says North Korean trash balloons have fallen on the compound of South Korea’s presidential office

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John Mayall, the British blues musician whose influential band the Bluesbreakers was a training ground for Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood and many other superstars, has died

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What do you do when you travel in a chauffeur-driven Bentley but want to be known as the green king

July 23

Trash from at least one North Korean balloon fell on the South Korean presidential compound, raising worries about the security of key South Korean facilities from North Korean provocations

July 23

South Korea says North Korea is again flying balloons likely carrying trash toward South Korea

July 23

The town of Jasper and Jasper National Park in Alberta have closed.

July 23

British and Spanish maritime officials say a fishing boat carrying 27 people has sunk nearly 200 miles off the Falkland Islands, leaving at least six people dead and seven people missing

July 23

British and Spanish officials say at least 6 people dead and 7 missing after fishing boat sinks off Falkland Islands

July 23

A necropsy has shown that a polar bear who died after rough play with a fellow bear in a zoo in western Canada drowned after his throat was crushed

July 23

A group of 2,000 migrants from dozens of countries have set out on foot from Tapachula, a city in southern Mexico, as they attempt to reach the U.S.

July 23

Protesters on Capitol Hill are calling for a cease-fire in Gaza ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress on Wednesday.

July 23

The family of a Portuguese-Belgian aid worker detained in the Central African Republic for allegedly being in touch with armed groups to plot a coup have maintaining his innocence and called for his release, even as the African government says it had e...

July 23

France's Macron says he'll maintain a centrist caretaker government through the entire Olympics to avoid “disorder”

July 23

Palestinian factions and bitter foes Hamas and Fatah have signed a declaration in China vowing to form a unity government that would rule over the occupied West Bank and Gaza when the Israel-Hamas war ends

July 23

French President Emmanuel Macron says he'll maintain his centrist caretaker government through the end of the Olympic Games in mid-August to avoid “disorder.”

July 23

One of Russia’s internet pioneers has been sentenced to two years in prison on charges of abuse of office

July 23

Golden fields of wheat no longer produce the bounty they once did in Morocco

July 23

The death toll has risen to 229 from mudslides in a remote part of Ethiopia

July 23

Brazil’s Forest Service has announced a plan to bring a massive area of Amazon rainforest currently vulnerable to illegal deforestation under national governance Tuesday

July 23

Russia’s lower house of parliament has passed legislation expanding the reach of a law on declaring foreign-funded organizations undesirable

July 23

The Iraqi government has announced an official ban on a Kurdish separatist group which has been engaged in a long-running conflict with Turkey

July 23

Google is dropping plans to eliminate cookies from its Chrome web browser, making a sudden U-turn on four years of work to phase out the technology that tracks users for ad purposes

July 23

The British government says it will end the controversial use of a barge to house asylum-seekers off the south coast of England

July 23

A German court has ruled that there is no longer a general danger to all civilians from the long-running conflict in Syria

July 23

Authorities in St. Maarten say they have detained a suspect linked to the recent shooting of a politician in an attack that killed his wife and shocked many in the normally peaceful Dutch Caribbean territory

July 23

Croatian police say a suspected gunman in a mass shooting in a nursing home in Croatia is facing 11 criminal charges after he was accused of killing six people, including his own mother, and wounding as many more

July 23

Sebastián Caqueza says that a new law to ban bullfighting in Colombia in three years will not dampen his passion for the tradition that he has been practicing since has was a small boy

July 23

Belarus’ foreign minister has arrived in North Korea as experts predict that he and North Korean officials would discuss forming a trilateral anti-Western front also involving Russia

July 23

Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.

July 23

A Sierra Leone court found 11 people guilty of treason and other offenses following what authorities have called an attempted coup, with their leader sentenced to almost 200 years in prison

July 23

A Spanish court has given an 18-year prison sentence to a man found guilty of sending six letters containing explosives to Spanish government, military and diplomatic targets and the American and Ukrainian embassies

July 23

Multiple wildfires in the Canadian Rockies’ largest national park have sent up to 25,000 visitors and residents fleeing west over the last open mountain road

July 23

A consortium of international human rights organizations is calling for Belarus not to execute a German citizen recently condemned to death after being convicted of terrorism, extremism and mercenary activities

July 23

Pilots at Ireland’s national airline, Aer Lingus, have voted to accept a pay increase that ends a labor dispute that led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights

July 23

Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary has been convicted by a London jury of directing a terrorist group

July 23

Germany’s governing coalition and the conservative opposition have presented a plan to protect the country’s highest court against possible future manipulation or obstruction by extremist or authoritarian politicians

July 23

Britain's police chiefs say that violence against women and girls has reached epidemic levels and police are treating it as a threat on the same scale as terrorism

July 23

Malaysia has evacuated 123 of its citizens from Bangladesh in response to violent unrest that has killed dozens of people

July 23

Anti-government protesters in Kenya’s capital have clashed with an emerging pro-government group as weeks of turmoil continue

July 23

Ugandan security forces have arrested dozens of people who tried to walk to the parliamentary building in protest over official corruption

July 23

China's Baosteel says it will acquire Nippon Steel's 50% stake in their auto steel joint venture

July 23

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signaled that a cease-fire deal that would free dozens of hostages in Gaza could be taking shape

July 23

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to raise spending to create more jobs and spur economic growth

July 23

Britain’s defeated Conservatives will spend more than three months picking a new leader to replace former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the party has announced

July 23

Eleven prominent Algerian opposition figures have written an open letter this week, denouncing “the authoritarian climate” surrounding the country’s upcoming presidential election and calling for a broad democratic transition

July 23

Death toll in southern Ethiopia mudslides rises to at least 146 as search operations continue

July 23

Mudslides triggered by heavy rain in a remote part of Ethiopia have killed at least 229 people

July 23

Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have agreed to form a government together

July 23

Chinese state media: Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah sign a declaration in Beijing on ending yearslong rift

July 23