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The contradiction of the trim Parisian and the butter croissant now has a storefront.

The Kremlin said Wednesday that CIA Director John Ratcliffe joined Russian intelligence officials for talks Tuesday during his visit to Moscow but did not meet with President Vladimir Putin.

An avalanche of ice and rock triggered massive flash floods in Nepal on Wednesday, killing at least eight people and leaving hundreds missing while causing widespread damage to villages and infrastructure.

Thousands of revelers descended on Bunol on Wednesday for the annual La Tomatina food fight, where they painted the small Spanish town red with up to 165 tons of overripe tomatoes.

When teenager Atilla Azimov murdered a man in Stockholm last February, he didn't know he was carrying out the killing in support of Iran. He'd done it for a few hundred dollars, offered by a group tied to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

A fire triggered by an exploding air conditioner killed 14 newborns in a hospital nursery in Pakistan's capital on Wednesday, officials said.

The monumental collection of 76 statues in Suse Lowenstein's backyard captures the moment she and other women learned their loved ones were killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.

The commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces on Tuesday announced the official dissolution of the group, which once controlled a de facto autonomous zone in Syria's northeast.

The Pentagon and the Small Business Administration on Tuesday announced plans to establish a modern equivalent of the World War II-era Smaller War Plants Corp. to boost domestic production of military components.

All Navy personnel and their families face increased dangers of attacks from terrorism, drones and online threats since the Iran war began and are being urged to tighten security, Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao said in a recent security notice.