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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called off a meeting with his Greek counterpart over his call for the return of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon Sculptures from the British Museum.

Officials said all the workers appeared to be in good health in a happy ending to an ordeal that had gripped India and involved a huge rescue operation that overcame several setbacks.

The coast guard said that a rescue mission was underway near Yakushima, an island off the Kagoshima region on the southern main island of Kyushu.

Analysts dismissed it as an attempt to portray an image of a normal society rather than signaling any meaningful increase of rights in the authoritarian state.

The International Football Association Board gave the go-ahead for a "sin bin" trial that would force teams to temporarily play with a numerical disadvantage.

The necrophilia of an electrician who was later convicted of two murders went undetected for 15 years.

Ukrainian representatives presume the poisoning was carried out intentionally, possibly through food or drink.

“I am very happy that all the 41 trapped workers have come out and their lives have been saved,” Nitin Gadkari, the minister of road transport and highways, said on X.

Countries where there are laws against LGBTQ people, or which criminalize sex work or drug use, are largely the places seeing rises or plateaus in new infections.

"I don’t remember the threat ever being so serious and real,” said Alexei Sergeyev, an LGBTQ activist in St. Petersburg.

Hisham Awartani's family wanted him to spend the holidays in Burlington, Vermont, believing it was a safe place to be.