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Today marks 80 year since Japan surrendered to allied forces — including China — at the end of World War II. Decades later, China-Japan relations are as complex as ever. Competition between the US and ...
North Korea has a secret army of workers applying for remote IT jobs around the world. They collect paychecks, sometimes steal company data and answer to a boss who isn’t at company headquarters, he’s ...
Vanna Howard was just 11 years old when she came to the US from Cambodia. She didn’t speak any English. Apart from fleeing the large-scale violence that plagued Cambodia, Howard also experienced ...
Ghana has approved the world’s first malaria drug for newborns, marking a breakthrough in infant care. But as rollout nears, US funding cuts are freezing critical research — threatening long-term ...
Pettorano sul Gizio, a small town in central Italy, is calling itself Europe’s first-ever “bear smart community,” interacting with bears that regularly visit in search of food.
US officials have unsealed an indictment against Haitian gang leader Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier and three Haiti-born naturalized US citizens for conspiring to violate US sanctions. The Miami Herald’s ...
Amid the hunger and devastation in Gaza, donkeys and horses are vital for survival. Cars are few and fuel is scarce. So, people use animals for transportation. But after months of almost no aid ...
Almost 1 in 4 Brazilians have been victims of cybercrime, making the country number one in the world for phishing via WhatsApp.
This week, the Trump administration announced funding cuts to mRNA vaccine development research in the US, but researchers have warned that the impacts will be felt internationally. To get a handle on ...
More than 4,000 athletes from across the globe have traveled to Chengdu, China, to take part in the 2025 World Games. The World’s Bianca Hillier reports on some of the obscure sports you can watch ...
Amid war and political instability, one Lebanese man has thrown himself into creating a new hiking path in his home country. Gilbert Moukheiber started the project during the COVID-19 pandemic, when ...
When Hiroshima became the site of the first-ever use of a nuclear weapon in war, two-thirds of the city was destroyed. Today, it’s a lively city of over a million people. And scattered throughout are ...