The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says he and his United Nations colleagues "escaped ...

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The Norwegian chess grandmaster was fined $200 and given a warning by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) to change ...

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Yellen told Congress her agency will need to start taking "extraordinary measures," or special accounting maneuvers intended ...

Hussey was 15 when director Franco Zeffirelli cast her in his adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy. The film won two Oscars ...

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The Kremlin said air defense systems were firing near Grozny due to a Ukrainian drone strike as the Azerbaijani airliner ...

NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with Brian Taylor, who teaches Russian politics at Syracuse University, about the call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leader of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev.

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The faiths in our family include skepticism. But we have come to think of prayers not as a list of wishes hurled into the ...