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Egypt’s President: Attack on Mosque ‘will not go unpunished’

As the imam was about to deliver his Friday sermon in a mosque in Egypt’s volatile northern Sinai Peninsula, terrorists struck. Shouting Allahu Akbar, or God is great, the militants opened fire....

Report: N. Korea’s last nuclear test caused quake that killed dozens

An artificial earthquake caused by a North Korean nuclear test in September reportedly caused buildings to collapse and killed scores of people, including schoolchildren, South Korean media reported this week. On Sept....

Bali volcano threatens, but island still safe, officials say

Some international flights to and from Bali, Indonesia, were canceled after Bali's Mount Agung volcano started to spew smoke and ash hundreds of meters into the air Saturday, officials said. It was...

Most ocean plastic pollution carried by 10 rivers

https://av.voanews.com/Videoroot/Pangeavideo/2017/11/9/9a/9afc0001-382d-470b-a30d-80af01915992.mp4 WATCH: Henry Ridgwell's video report on ocean plastic waste LONDON — The equivalent of one garbage truck full of plastic waste is dumped into the world’s oceans every minute, equal to 8 million...

No casualties after gunshots reported at London Subway Station

London police found no casualties Friday after investigating reports of shots fired at a busy subway station. Police initially responded as if the incident were terror-related, but later said they "have not...

Texas company reports selling lethal weapons to Ukraine

A U.S. company says it has been selling lethal weapons to Ukraine since last year, ahead of an expected decision by the Trump administration on whether to provide such weapons to...

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