BEIJING – China announced Wednesday a nationwide loosening of COVID restrictions following protests against the hardline strategy that grew into calls for greater political freedoms. Anger over China’s zero-COVID policy…

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KYIV – The United States said Tuesday it hadn’t “enabled” Ukraine to carry out strikes inside Russia, after a spate of drone attacks on military-linked facilities deep within Russian territory.…

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EBERSBACH, GERMANY – In the east German countryside, close to Dresden, a former abattoir is now home to the biggest indoor cannabis farm in Europe. Behind the recently renovated concrete…

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ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA – Thousands have braved freezing temperatures in Mongolia’s capital to protest alleged corruption in the country’s coal industry and soaring inflation. Protesters, many of them young people, rallied…

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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – A landslide engulfed a road Sunday in Colombia, killing three people and leaving some 20 trapped in the mud, authorities said. Crews were searching for people riding…

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