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LONDON -- Thomas Gainsborough's 18th century painting "The Blue Boy" goes on show at London's National Gallery this week, 100 years after it was bought and shipped from Britain to the United States. Read More … [Read more...] about Gainsborough’s ‘The Blue Boy’ back on show in London after 100 years

PORT-AU-PRINCE -- A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti's southern peninsula on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, sending panicked residents flooding into the streets in the city of Les Cayes just six months after a major tremor in the same area. Read More … [Read more...] about Haiti quake sends city residents flooding into the streets

BERLIN -- German police said on Monday a lone gunman wounded four people in an attack in a lecture hall in the southwestern university town of Heidelberg before shooting himself dead. Read More … [Read more...] about German police say lone Heidelberg gunman is dead after injuring four

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider limiting the scope of a landmark federal environmental law as it took up for the second time an Idaho couple's bid to build on property the federal government has deemed a protected wetland. Read More … [Read more...] about U.S. Supreme Court agrees to consider limiting wetlands regulation

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by Republican lawmakers to pandemic-related proxy voting rules set by Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the Democratic-led House of Representatives that were tailored to limit exposure to COVID-19. Read More … [Read more...] about U.S. Supreme Court rejects House Republicans’ challenge to pandemic-era voting rules

AMMAN -- Kurdish-led forces said they raided part of a prison seized by Islamic State fighters in northeastern Syria and forced at least 300 of the militants to surrender on Monday. Read More … [Read more...] about Syrian Kurds say Islamic State militants surrender after prison raid

Lebanon's leading Druze politician said on Monday Saad al-Hariri's decision not to run in a forthcoming parliamentary election and suspend his role in political life "means a free hand for Hezbollah and the Iranians." Read More … [Read more...] about Lebanese Druze leader says Hariri decision means ‘free hand for Hezbollah’

NEW YORK -- The trial of lawyer Michael Avenatti, a fierce critic of former President Donald Trump, on charges he defrauded his former client, adult film star Stormy Daniels, whom he represented in cases against Trump, got under way on Monday. Read More … [Read more...] about Fraud trial of Michael Avenatti, U.S. lawyer who battled Trump, starts

MEXICO CITY -- A Mexican journalist was shot dead in the northern border city of Tijuana on Sunday, the state government said, becoming the second killed in the area within a week. Read More … [Read more...] about Second journalist shot dead in a week in Mexico’s Tijuana