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Margaret Papandreou, American-Born Greek First Lady, Dies at 102
Born in Illinois, she spent her life rewriting another country's rules entirely.
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International affairs, conflict, diplomacy, and the world beyond America.
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Coast Guard Suspends Search for 6 on Air Ambulance Off Nantucket
Controllers kept asking the pilot to repeat himself. Then the radar went empty.
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Residents Told to Flee as Dam Nears Collapse
Operators called it imminent at 2:01 p.m. Five towns got the order.
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Rescuers Rush Up a Nepal Peak After 12 Disappear
The ground at that base camp is flat. That is what surprised the organizers.
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4 Americans Dead in Athens Blast
Six died below the Acropolis. Residents had warned of the gas risk in writing a year earlier.
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US Secretly Preps Military Action Against Cuba
Six kinds of units, a four-month window, and a document that never says Cuba.
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Lebanon Arrests ISIS Commander Over Plot to Kill Pope Leo XIV
A Syrian prison break, a papal route studied on foot, and the cordon that held.
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18 Accused in a President's Killing Are Bound for the U.S.
A military flight left Port-au-Prince on Sunday. The families in Colombia found out afterward.
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Shark Kills Swimmer Steps From City Beach
Two men swam out off a Perth city beach. Only one returned.
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Brianna Cronin, 29, Dies in Cliff Fall at Bali's Kelingking Beach
She took the other path at the top of the cliff. Rescuers were already coming.
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Putin Signs Three Secret Decrees During CIA Chief's Moscow Visit
Withholding a decree is routine in Moscow. The date these three carry is not.
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Hiker Lily Hooper Found Dead After Eight-Day Search in Nattai Park
A search volunteer's radio message reached the premier before anyone checked it. Police have apologised.
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Iran State TV Offers $10 Million Bounty on Barron Trump
A foreign government just spent three minutes of airtime on a 20-year-old college student.
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Overturned Big Rig Pins Mercedes on 210 Freeway, Injuring Three
A California commute turned into a 14-hour mess, and one driver had it worst.
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Car Salesman Set to Become Belgian Prince After DNA Test Confirms Paternity
He spent his childhood wondering. At 16, his mother told him the whole story.
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US Declares Scholar Min Zin Wrongfully Detained by China
Beijing invited him to an academic conference. He was detained inside the airport on arrival.
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Two Fishermen Found Alive on Cooler 150 Miles Off Mexico
Their boat sank before dawn. What kept them alive for four days is almost too simple.
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Woman Leaps From 11th Floor Into Firefighter's Basket in Berlin Fire
The ladder stopped two floors short, so she had one option left.
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Escaped Python Starts Fire at Virginia Middle School
Firefighters opened the classroom door and something eight feet long was staring back.
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Broken Fan Blade Sucked Ryanair Passenger's Head Through Window
Two clean inspections, four bird strikes, and a warning nobody could stop in time.