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Chicago Teens Create World Record-Breaking Cereal Mosaic

Teenagers in Chicago armed with boxes of breakfast cereal created a Guinness world record-breaking mosaic on Thursday - and raised money for Ukraine in...

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Florida Moves to Ban Transgender Treatments on Children

Recently, the Florida Board of Medicine took a major step toward banning transgender treatments for minors by advancing a proposed rule prohibiting children and...

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South Africa’s Eskom To Resume Power Cuts After 11-Day Pause

South African power utility Eskom said it would implement "Stage 2" scheduled power cuts from 1600 until midnight local time (1400 to 2200 GMT)...

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Congo Expels U.N. Peacekeeping Mission Spokesman After Protests

Democratic Republic of Congo has asked the spokesman of the U.N. peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, to leave the country, blaming him for stoking tensions that...

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Crude Prices Fall After OPEC+ Agrees To Raise Output Targets

Oil prices fell Monday after OPEC+ agreed to further increase its output targets from August. Exports from key producers via the Strait of Hormuz are also recovering, potentially adding to global supplies. Brent crude futures fell 41 cents, or 0.57%, to $71.71 a barrel in early trading after settling 0.45%...

Sierra Leone’s Fishermen Say Illegal Foreign Trawlers Destroying Livelihoods

On Sherbo Island off Sierra Leone's coast, local fishermen haul in their nets the traditional way — with a dozen or more hands pulling together to bring the catch ashore. But residents say hauls have been shrinking for years, and they point to one consistent cause: large...

25 Killed, 100 Injured in Sri Lanka Prison Clashes

At least 25 people have died and roughly 100 more were injured following clashes between two groups of inmates at a prison in Negombo, Sri Lanka, according to two police sources and a hospital source who spoke to Reuters. The violence broke out Sunday between convicted prisoners and...