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Haiti’s airport is temporarily closing as gangs were attempting to take control of it, the US Embassy reported Monday.

Police in China’s financial capital were out in force over the weekend to crack down on Halloween festivities, after revelers last year wore politically sensitive costumes.

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Japanese anti-nuclear weapon group Nihon Hidankyo.

While the remains of Colleen Monfore were found in the belly of a shark after she disappeared during a dive excursion in Indonesia Sept. 26, her loved ones don’t believe the shark killed her. 

A well-known elephant sanctuary in Thailand appealed for help on Friday after torrential flash floods forced the evacuation of about 100 elephants.

More than a dozen tigers have died after contracting bird flu at a zoo in southern Vietnam.

Prosecutors say Amanda Hovanec, her lover and her mother all played roles in the death of her estranged husband amid a custody dispute.

An analysis of the industry in Vietnam, Indonesia and India, which provide about half the shrimp in the world’s top four markets, found a 20%-60% drop in earnings from pre-pandemic levels.

An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota.

The “Sarco” suicide capsule, which has never been used before, is designed to allow a person inside to push a button that injects nitrogen gas into the sealed chamber. The person is then supposed to fall asleep and die by suffocation in a few minutes.

Short corn developed by Bayer Crop Science is being tested on about 30,000 acres in the Midwest.

Yooree Kim marched into a police station in Paris and told an officer she wanted to report a crime. Forty years ago, she said, she was kidnapped from the other side of the world, and the French government endorsed it.

Indian authorities are investigating the work environment at a global accounting firm after the death of a 26-year-old employee whose mother said she was overworked. 

The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved more transparent procedures Friday for the hundreds of individuals, companies and other entities who are subject to U.N. sanctions and want to get off the blacklists.

The four-day wedding celebrations began Friday with the traditional Hindu wedding ceremony and will be followed by a grand reception to run through the weekend

Since the peak was first conquered in 1953, thousands of climbers have scaled it and many have left behind more than just their footprints.

Authorities have deployed 18 crafts for the clean-up efforts and laid close to 1,500 meters of container booms, temporary floating barriers to trap the oil spill.

It wasn’t a vintage red or white, but vintage it was. A man renovating his wine cellar in Austria discovered mammoth remains from the prehistoric era.

Mexico’s president made the announcement Friday evening after police forced their way into the Mexican embassy to arrest Ecuador’s former vice president.

Dutch police have detained a man who walked out of a nightclub where hostages were being held after a tense hours-long standoff.