
International
Premier League preseason tournament matches coming to Philly this summer
Pa. native Christian Pulisic’s Chelsea will kick off the inaugural Premier League Summer Series on July 22 at Lincoln Financial Field.
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Pope at Easter: Pray for Ukrainian, Russian people, refugees
Tens of thousands of faithful joined the 86-year-old pope on Sunday to celebrate Christianity's most joyful day at Mass in a flower-adorned St. Peter's Square.
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U.S. investigating whether Ukraine war documents were leaked
The Justice Department has launched an investigation into the possible release of Pentagon documents that were posted on several social media sites.
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Snake on a plane! South African pilot finds cobra under seat
Rudolf Erasmus had four passengers on board the light aircraft during the flight when he felt “something cold” slide across his lower back.
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Catan board game creator, Klaus Teuber, dies at 70
The board game, originally called The Settlers of Catan, has sold millions of copies and is available in more than 40 languages.
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Finland joins NATO in major blow to Russia over Ukraine war
With the Nordic nation entering the world’s biggest security alliance, NATO's land border with Russia has doubled.
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Guatemalans in Delaware hope to see improvement back home as they find success in the U.S.
Guatemalans make up 30% of the state’s population of Hispanic or Latino descent. They want to see better education, less crime in their home country.
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Listen 2:39Ryuichi Sakamoto, a godfather of electronic pop, has died
The influential Japanese composer died March 28 from cancer. A wide-ranging musician, the Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder was a synth-pop idol.
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Blinken: Russia must immediately free 2 detained Americans
Blinken urged his Russian counterpart to immediately release a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained last week as well as another imprisoned American, Paul Whelan.
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Russia arrests Wall Street Journal reporter on spying charge
The Federal Security Service said that Evan Gershkovich was detained in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg while allegedly trying to obtain classified information.
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Vatican: Pope to be hospitalized for days for lung infection
Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni says Francis, 86, does not have COVID-19, but requires several days of therapy.
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Senate votes to repeal Iraq War authorization
The Democratic-led U.S. Senate voted 66-30 on legislation to formally repeal the war authorizations that justified the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 Iraq War.
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Elephant in the dining room: Startup makes mammoth meatball
An Australian company has lifted the glass cloche on a meatball made of lab-grown cultured meat using the genetic sequence from the long-extinct mammoth.
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40 dead in fire at Mexico migrant center near U.S. border
Migrants fearing deportation set mattresses ablaze at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico, according to the Mexican president.
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Randall Robinson, human rights activist and lawyer, has died at 81
He died in St. Kitts of aspiration pneumonia. He was known for his advocacy against South African apartheid and for Haitian democracy.
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