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Russia launched its largest airstrike on Ukraine's capital Sunday, killing at least four people and damaging a building in the heavily protected government sector for the first time.

An Australian judge sentenced triple-murderer Erin Patterson to life in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years for poisoning four of her estranged husband's relatives with death cap mushrooms.

The president's arrival delayed the match and left many ticketholders waiting in line. He watched from Rolex's luxury box.

Nashville is home to the largest Kurdish population in the United States -- and a new podcast, "The Country In Our Hearts" from WPLN, tells the story of the diaspora.

In Brazil, Bolsonaro supporters rally on Independence Day as the verdict looms in the former President's historic coup plot trial.

Colombia's only Amazon port town could soon be cut off from the river that keeps it alive. As drought and a shifting river spark a tense border dispute with Peru, locals are scrambling to adapt--and politicians are raising flags, literally.

We look at what the U.S. block on Palestinian officials from attending the annual U.N. General Assembly meeting this month could mean for Palestinian statehood.

More than 300 South Korean workers were detained in an immigration raid on Friday. Presidential chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik said South Korea plans to send a charter plane to bring the workers home.

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has expressed his intention on Sunday to step down following growing calls from his party to take responsibility for a historic defeat in July's parliamentary election.

Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia at 15 in 2006, is known in the Catholic Church as "God's influencer" for harnessing technology to spread the word about miracles.