Poland pushes for more tanks for Kyiv, will seek German OK
Poland wants to send German-built Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine. The country may send them to the non-NATO country, even without permission.
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What it means to be born in the Year of the Rabbit
East Asians around the world will ring in the Year of the Rabbit on Sunday, January 22.
Ukraine's Zelenskyy honors those killed in helicopter crash
A helicopter carrying Ukraine's interior minister and other top officials slammed into a kindergarten building, killing him and about a dozen others.
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Chris Hipkins to be New Zealand's next prime minister
The 44-year-old education minister must still get an endorsement Sunday from his Labour Party colleagues in Parliament.
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Comet not seen in 50,000 years to pass by Earth. Here's how to watch:
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is forecasted to be the brightest from January 31 to February 1. Experts say it will be most visible just before dawn.
Protests move into Peru's capital, met by tear gas and smoke
The protests have been marked by Peru's worst political violence in more than two decades.
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Defense leaders meet amid dissent over tanks for Ukraine
Nearly 11 months into the Russian invasion, Ukraine's Zelenskyy has expressed frustration about not obtaining enough weaponry from Western allies.
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Ukrainian theater lives on in a bunker
The Mykolaiv Art Drama Theatre was nearly destroyed by a Russian strike. Now, audiences fill seats in the bunker below.
Ukrainian troops are getting air defense training in the US
In Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Ukrainian solders are training on an advanced air defense platform called the Patriot missile system.
| Scripps News Staff
Strikes, protests test French plan to raise retirement age
French workers would have to work longer before receiving a pension under the new rules — with the retirement age rising from 62 to 64.
| AP and Scripps News Staff
New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern to leave office, sets October election
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's last day in office will be Feb. 7.
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A look inside a suspected Chinese police outpost in the US
Scripps News investigates a suspected Chinese police facility in New York.
NATO warns of Russia's long war in Ukraine, vows to be ready
NATO chiefs are expected to discuss how allies can expand the delivery of weapons, training and support to Ukraine in the coming months.
| AP and Rosie Birchard
Ukraine interior minister, others killed in helicopter crash
There was no immediate word on whether the morning crash was an accident or related to the war, but authorities have opened an investigation.
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Greta Thunberg carried away by police at German mine protest
Thunberg was among hundreds of people protesting coal mining at multiple locations in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Hidden treasures likely owned by Jews 80 years ago unearthed in Poland
Many suspect the hundreds of items construction crews dug up in Lodz, Poland belonged to Jews who were hiding their valuables from the Germans.
Norway archaeologists find 'world's oldest runestone'
The Svingerud stone has carved scribbles, which may be the earliest example of words recorded in writing in Scandinavia.
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China records 1st population fall in decades as births drop
China's National Bureau of Statistics reported that the country had 850,000 fewer people at the end of 2022 than the previous year.
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Official: Jihadis abduct at least 50 women in Burkina Faso
Jihadi violence linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group has overrun Burkina Faso, killing thousands and displacing nearly 2 million people.
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Royal Caribbean cruise ship rescues 17 migrants on its way to Bahamas
The crew of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship gave 17 people medical attention after rescuing them from an adrift boat, according to the company.
| Scripps News Staff
Indonesia soccer disaster trial begins for 5 charged
Three police officers involved in the use of tear gas, the Arema FC Organizing Committee chair and security chief face charges of negligence.
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Flight data, voice recorders retrieved from Nepal crash site
Rescuers combed through debris scattered down a 984-foot-deep gorge for three missing people after a fatal plane crash in Nepal.
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Italy arrests No. 1 fugitive Mafia boss, 30 years on the run
Matteo Messina Denaro was the last of three longtime fugitive top-level Mafia bosses in Italy who had eluded capture for decades.
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Final toll in Russian strike: 44 dead, including 5 children
The missile strike Saturday hit an apartment building in Dnipro, Ukraine.
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68 dead, 4 missing after plane crashes in Nepal resort town
At least one witness reported hearing cries for help from within the fiery wreck, the country's deadliest airplane accident in three decades.
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Russian missiles hit across Ukraine; UK to supply tanks to Ukraine
Photos showed a large gap in the nine-story building. Infrastructure facilities were also hit in the western Lviv region and northeastern Kharkiv.
| AP and Scripps News Staff
China reports 60,000 COVID-related deaths, says peak passed
The death toll included 5,503 deaths due to respiratory failure caused by COVID-19 and 54,435 fatalities from other ailments combined with COVID-19.
| AP and Scripps News Staff
How political unrest escalated into violence in Brazil
Thousands of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro broke through barriers to protest the inauguration of the country's new president.
Suspect charged with murder in assassination of Japan's Abe
Japanese law allows capital punishment for murder, but experts say the death penalty usually is handed down for multiple killings.
| AP and Scripps News Staff
6 stabbed in Paris train station, attacker shot by police
The suspect attacked several people, including a police officer, with a "bladed weapon" during morning rush hour in the Gare du Nord train station.
| AP and Scripps News Staff
