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[ad_1] An explosion that collapsed a residential building in France’s port city of Marseille early Sunday has rescuers racing to find any victims trapped under the debris as a fire burns beneath the rubble.  The five-story building collapsed just before 1 a.m., and six victims have been hospitalized with injuries, …

[ad_1] Births in Italy dropped to a new historic low below 400,000 in 2022, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Friday, as the population continued to shrink. Italy’s death of babies is considered a national emergency, and fixing the problem was a prominent policy pledge by Giorgia Meloni ahead of …

[ad_1] Nineteen Japanese men detained in Cambodia in January on suspicion of taking part in organized phone and online scams will be deported to their homeland, a Cambodian immigration police officer said Friday. Arrangements for their return are being made by the Japanese Embassy in Cambodia, but so far no …

[ad_1] Some 200 firefighters battled a huge blaze in Mexico City’s sprawling wholesale market Thursday night without any reported injuries. The Central de Abasto supplies the capital’s other neighborhood markets, restaurants and other parts of the country. Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said the fire started in an area of …

[ad_1] A veteran Spanish TV actress who paid for a surrogate pregnancy revealed this week that the child belonged to her deceased son.  “This was Aless’s final wish, to bring a child of his own into the world,” Ana Obregón said, revealing that the father of the child was her …

[ad_1] The British government remains locked in discussions with the Taliban to ensure the safe return of three British nationals, including a “danger tourist.”  “If there are risks to people’s safety, if they’re a British citizen abroad, then the UK government is going to do whatever it takes to ensure …

[ad_1] The Israeli military said Saturday that three rockets were launched from Syria toward Israeli territory, a rare attack from the country’s northeastern neighbor that comes after days of escalating violence on multiple fronts. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the rocket launches, which caused no damage or …

[ad_1] Ben Ferencz, the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, who tried Nazis for genocidal war crimes and was among the first outside witnesses to document the atrocities of Nazi labor and concentration camps, has died. He had just turned 103 in March. Ferencz died Friday evening in Boynton …

[ad_1] Chinese health officials are defending their search to find the source of the coronavirus and criticized the leader of the World Health Organization after saying that China should have shared genetic information earlier. Shen Hongbing, director of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention called the comments “offensive …

[ad_1] China sent warships and dozens of fighter jets toward Taiwan, according to the Taiwanese government. The move was in reaction to a meeting between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in California last week.  China’s military announced the start of three-day “combat readiness patrols” as a …