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World

9 Dec
US President Joe Biden announced the infusion of nearly $36 billion to shore up a financially troubled union pension plan, preventing severe cuts to the retirement incomes of about 350,000 Teamster workers and...
8 Dec
Heavy overnight rains flooded Portugal’s capital Lisbon into Thursday, submerging cars, streets and public transport stations, while blocking some metro lines. A 55-year-old woman died after becoming trapped...
8 Dec
The largest painting in the world entered the Guinness World Records on Wednesday when Qatar’s university football field was covered with an enormous art canvas. 9,652 square metres of the football field was...
8 Dec
Boeing said that the last Boeing 747 airplane, a 747-8 freighter, has left the company's wide body factory in Everett, in the northwestern U.S. state of Washington, in advance of its delivery to Atlas Air in...
8 Dec
A bombmaker in the 2002 Bali attacks that killed 202 people was released from an Indonesian prison on parole Wednesday after serving half his 20-year sentence, despite the opposition of Australia’s prime...
8 Dec
Boeing said on Wednesday that the last Boeing 747 airplane, a 747-8 freighter, has left the company's wide body factory in Everett, in the northwestern U.S. state of Washington, in advance of its delivery to...
8 Dec
The Italian town of Gubbio on Wednesday switched on the lights in a festive display of what the Guinness Book of World Records has billed as the world's largest Christmas tree by the Guinness Book of Records...
8 Dec
Washington's Metro Center station was closed Wednesday evening after a federal officer shot and killed a person along the platform, according to the city's Transit Police Department. The shooting...
8 Dec
A handful of centenarian survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor gathered at the scene of the Japanese bombing on Wednesday to commemorate those who perished 81 years ago. That's fewer than in recent years...
8 Dec
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called for a "peace pact with nature," as well as "a dramatic step up in climate action." Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-...

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