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47 stories · latest 4 Nov

  1. CEO and Daughters Shot During Mansion Break-In
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    CEO David Morton and his daughters shot in Toronto home invasion

    Morton's wife, Doriana Zohil-Morton, was struck with a hammer, and two of the four family members have life-altering injuries, Toronto police say.

    By Threadline World Desk
    30 Oct
  2. Tourist Drops 1,000 Feet Taking a Picture
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    Michelle Rubio Leiva, 36, dies in 300-metre fall in the Dolomites

    Italian press reports say Rubio Leiva stepped off the marked path for a photograph; the rescue service's account says only that she slipped.

    By Threadline World Desk
    23 Oct
  3. Airman Killed in 170-Foot Drop at Game
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    Air Force identifies Tech. Sgt. Ian Patterson in Alamodome rappel death

    Patterson was one of four airmen set to rappel to the field, and the American Conference says the game resumed before his death was confirmed.

    By Threadline World Desk
    19 Oct
  4. Coast guard patrol boat in open Mediterranean water
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    Cargo ship spots cruise passenger alive off Zakynthos

    Odyssey of the Seas skipped its Naples call after about 14 hours searching; the woman was treated for hypothermia.

    By Threadline World Desk
    11 Oct
  5. Hills of eastern Congo near the Burundi border
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    Ambush on Erik Prince's Congo force wounds Tim Kennedy

    The September 17 attack in South Kivu left about 20 people dead or wounded and marked the first known casualties for Prince's Vectus Global in Congo.

    By Threadline World Desk
    11 Oct
  6. Apartment buildings along the Athens seafront
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    Margaret Papandreou, architect of Greek family law reform, dies at 102

    Born Margaret Chant in Oak Park, Illinois, she pressed Greek lawmakers to abolish dowries and legalize divorce by mutual consent.

    By Threadline World Desk
    9 Oct
  7. Osprey aircraft parked at Futenma air station
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    Japan protests to Washington after Marine arrested in Okinawa killing

    Prosecutors in Naha began examining the case on Monday and have weeks to decide whether to charge Lance Corporal Devin Jacob Ballard, 20.

    By Threadline World Desk
    5 Oct
  8. Coast Guard crew scanning open water off Nantucket
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    Latitude Air Ambulance says six aboard missing jet presumed dead

    Four Canadian crew and two Bermudian passengers were aboard the Gulfstream G100, which fell from 24,000 feet before vanishing off Nantucket.

    By Threadline World Desk
    5 Oct
  9. Floodwater pouring over a low earthen dam
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    New Mexico county lifts four of five McLeod Dam evacuations

    Dam operators reported imminent failure of the 25-foot earthen structure, which a 2023 inspection rated in poor condition with no emergency action plan.

    By Threadline World Desk
    30 Sep
  10. Relatives waiting at a hospital morgue in Kathmandu
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    Rescuers dig for 12 missing after Himlung base camp avalanche

    Eight guides dug through snow at the 7,126-metre peak on Monday; all of the dead and missing are Nepali expedition workers.

    By Threadline World Desk
    28 Sep
  11. Rubble and crushed cars on a narrow Athens street
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    Athens explosion kills six, including four American tourists

    The State Department said four Americans died in a gas explosion in the Plaka district of Athens, where residents had warned of gas risks a year earlier.

    By Threadline World Desk
    27 Sep
  12. Darkened Havana skyline during a power outage
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    Army Reserve canvasses units for Cuba planning within 120 days

    No deployment orders have been issued, and the message never names Cuba, but U.S. officials told CBS News the planning is aimed at the island.

    By Threadline World Desk
    25 Sep
  13. Lebanese soldiers standing guard on a city street
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    Lebanon arrests Islamic State member over plot to kill Pope Leo XIV

    Lebanese Army Intelligence detained a Syrian Islamic State member in Batroun and handed him to the Military Court, where he is expected to face terrorism charges.

    By Threadline World Desk
    24 Sep
  14. Haitian police vehicles outside a Port-au-Prince court
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    Haiti extradites 18 suspects in Moïse assassination to U.S.

    Prosecutors have not named the 18, but those held in Haiti included 17 Colombian soldiers and a former justice ministry official.

    By Threadline World Desk
    21 Sep
  15. Police officers standing on a closed city beach
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    Shark kills swimmer off Perth's Sorrento Beach

    Almost 12 kilometres of coastline is closed until at least noon Saturday, four days after a shark seriously injured a surfer near Geraldton.

    By Threadline World Desk
    18 Sep
  16. Investigators at a burned crash site in Chatsworth
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    NTSB to analyze live broadcast video from LA helicopter crash

    Reporter Eliana Moreno, pilot George Marciniw and Edy Gutierrez Mejia, 29, were killed; a preliminary report is due within about 30 days.

    By Threadline World Desk
    17 Sep
  17. Street scene in Blantyre, Malawi, at midday
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    Malawi police offer K30 million reward for abducted Nusrat Osman

    Police say the four men fled in a grey Nissan Dualis, registration CA 6956, and are now sending SMS appeals to the public in Blantyre.

    By Threadline World Desk
    15 Sep
  18. Clifftop lookout above Kelingking Beach at dawn
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    Brianna Cronin, 29, dies in fall at Bali's Kelingking Beach

    Rescuers carried her body up the cliff track for about 90 minutes after a sea recovery was ruled out; the fall is under investigation.

    By Threadline World Desk
    14 Sep
  19. Ambulance parked outside an Italian hospital
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    Italian police report calls ambulance driver Luca Spada a serial predator

    The Carabinieri profile was cited by the judge who refused to free Spada, who goes on trial on 15 October over the death of Deanna Mambelli, 85.

    By Threadline World Desk
    11 Sep
  20. Gray swells in the Bering Sea off Alaska
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    Boy, 15, survives days on overturned skiff in Bering Sea

    A Coast Guard plane spotted the boy on the hull in the Bering Sea at 10:30 a.m. Monday and laid a line of flares to guide a fishing vessel to him.

    By Threadline World Desk
    11 Sep
  21. Trump envoys seated across from Putin at the Kremlin
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    Retired general warns Kremlin car may have exposed Trump envoys' phones

    Witkoff and Kushner used Kremlin-provided Aurus limousines rather than US Embassy cars, breaking with custom for high-level diplomatic talks.

    By Threadline World Desk
    9 Sep
  22. Police vehicles outside an Aurora strip mall
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    500 teens swarm Aurora shopping center, police declare unlawful assembly

    More than 70 officers responded to the August 30 gathering, which police believe grew out of an influencer's community event.

    By Threadline World Desk
    2 Sep
  23. Police cordon around a Swiss horse racing track
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    Swiss police arrest 43-year-old in deadly Aarau rave shooting

    Aargau police say a lone perpetrator is believed responsible and have set a news conference for Wednesday; the motive remains unknown.

    By Threadline World Desk
    31 Aug
  24. Empty display case in a Vienna museum gallery
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    Thieves steal 673-diamond royal necklace from Vienna museum

    The Van Cleef necklace, made for the 1939 royal wedding of Princess Fawzia, was the most valuable object stolen in Vienna since 2003.

    By Threadline World Desk
    29 Aug
  25. Kyiv skyline under an air-defense alert at night
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    Russia warns it could strike British military targets over Kyiv's missiles

    Days earlier Ukraine reported 8,500 fresh North Korean troops massing in Kursk, part of a wider Russian escalation on several fronts.

    By Threadline World Desk
    28 Aug
  26. Large cruise ship departing a Miami port terminal
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    Man dies in balcony fall aboard Norwegian Getaway

    Miami-Dade homicide detectives are treating the death aboard the Miami-to-Bahamas sailing as an unclassified death investigation.

    By Threadline World Desk
    26 Aug
  27. Forested ridge and cliffs in Nattai National Park
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    Hiker Lily Hooper found dead after family wrongly told she survived

    Police and Premier Chris Minns apologised after Hooper's family was told she had been found alive, minutes before the death was confirmed.

    By Threadline World Desk
    26 Aug
  28. Newsroom monitors showing a state television broadcast
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    Iran state TV airs $10 million bounty on Barron Trump

    Iran International said the three-minute broadcast maps the university Barron Trump attends and his security detail, but could not verify its claims.

    By Threadline World Desk
    24 Aug
  29. Prime Minister Mark Carney at a news conference
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    Trump says Canada wants state benefits after trade talks collapse

    The 1 a.m. post landed after negotiators walked out in Washington, with Ottawa set to retaliate dollar for dollar on Sept. 8.

    By Threadline World Desk
    24 Aug
  30. Hillside road in the Damascus countryside
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    Syria says Israeli drone struck civilian car near Damascus

    Israel called the man a militant preparing an attack; Syria's foreign ministry said its drone hit a civilian on a public road near Beit Jinn.

    By Threadline World Desk
    23 Aug
  31. Semi-trucks queued at the Canada-US border crossing
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    US invokes 1930 law to impose 50% tariffs on Canada

    The duties cover hockey sticks, plywood and liquor but exempt energy and potash; Ottawa will impose matching counter-tariffs.

    By Threadline World Desk
    22 Aug
  32. Belgian royal palace gates in Brussels
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    Belgium's Prince Laurent recognizes son, making car salesman a prince

    Prince Laurent formally established paternity of the 26-year-old before a civil registrar in February, six months before the case became public.

    By Threadline World Desk
    21 Aug
  33. Candlelight held up at a night vigil in a city park
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    Hong Kong convicts Tiananmen vigil group and two leaders of inciting subversion

    The pair have been jailed since 2021; a third defendant, Albert Ho, pleaded guilty, and the vigil group itself was also convicted.

    By Threadline World Desk
    21 Aug
  34. Navy patrol vessel nearing fishermen on a cooler
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    Navy rescues two fishermen adrift on cooler 150 miles off Chiapas

    The two men last contacted their fishing cooperative on August 14, and a navy air and sea search found them alive after five days adrift.

    By Threadline World Desk
    20 Aug
  35. Storm clouds over a flooded Hawaii coastal road
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    Hurricane warning covers remote Hawaiian atolls in Lala's path

    A depression could form near Mexico this weekend and near Hawaii within days, after Lala killed at least one person and damaged more than 100 homes.

    By Threadline World Desk
    19 Aug
  36. Moscow bank district under an overcast sky
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    Russia fires economist who said it cannot win war of attrition

    The state development bank confirmed Klepach's exit but gave no reason; The Bell reported chairman Igor Shuvalov acted after a call from above.

    By Threadline World Desk
    18 Aug
  37. Cobbled courtyard inside a Cambridge college
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    Jason Arday, Cambridge's youngest Black professor, found dead at 41

    Police are treating the death of the 41-year-old academic as unexpected but not suspicious; his family says he faced a sustained campaign of abuse.

    By Threadline World Desk
    18 Aug
  38. French Constitutional Council chamber in Paris
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    France's top court strikes down under-15 social media ban

    Passed by Parliament last month, the law would have made France the first EU country to bar minors under 15 from social platforms.

    By Threadline World Desk
    14 Aug
  39. Emergency crews at a field where a helicopter crashed
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    Fort Hood Apache helicopter crash kills two soldiers in Texas

    The helicopter, assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division, crashed in a Bell County field about 20 miles from its base at Fort Hood.

    By Threadline World Desk
    19 Aug
  40. Collapsed apartment block on a debris-strewn street
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    Colombia's strongest quake this century kills at least 190, government says

    President Abelardo de la Espriella declared a national disaster as more than 2,700 people were reported missing across five cities.

    By Threadline World Desk
    12 Aug
  41. A president in a suit speaking at a lectern with the Colombian flag behind him
    De la Espriella was sworn in on Friday in Cali, which by Monday was his largest rescue site. Photo by Noamfein | Dreamstime.com

    The city where Colombia's president was sworn in is now digging out

    Colombia's new president declared a state of emergency on day three, as Washington pledged $15.5 million and El Salvador offered rescue crews.

    By Threadline World Desk
    11 Aug
  42. The full moon photographed against a black sky, its craters visible across the surface
    The impact happened on the lit side of the moon and was not visible to the naked eye. Photo by Anniphotography18 | Dreamstime.com

    A dead SpaceX rocket hit the moon and joined 209 tons of junk

    SpaceX's spent Falcon 9 stage struck at 5,400 miles an hour, 19 months after a launch that carried two landers toward the moon.

    By Threadline World Desk
    10 Aug
  43. A newly inaugurated president waves while wearing a presidential sash on a stage flanked by flags
    De la Espriella took the oath in Cali rather than Bogota, the first Colombian president to be inaugurated outside the capital. Photo by Alejobilustracion | Dreamstime.com

    Colombia's new president declares talks with armed groups over

    Sworn in at Cali, the first president to take office outside the capital, he gave armed groups 100 days to surrender. His party holds one Chamber seat and four in the Senate.

    By Threadline World Desk
    10 Aug
  44. Soldiers patrol an avocado grove in Michoacan
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    Mexico sends 1,500 troops to Michoacan after avocado inspection halt

    By Threadline World Desk
    7 Aug
  45. Migrants cross the shoreline into Ceuta from Morocco
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    Ceuta leader says 100 died as 78,000 migrants crossed from Morocco

    Nearly 75,000 have since gone back to Morocco, while many of the roughly 1,100 unaccompanied minors left behind sleep in warehouses or on the streets.

    By Threadline World Desk
    6 Aug
  46. Smoke over an oil refinery at dawn in Russia
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    Ukraine strikes Yaroslavl and Ufa oil refineries deep in Russia

    By Threadline World Desk
    6 Aug