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Australia deports unvaccinated tennis champ	Russia leads troops into strife-torn Kazakhstan
Webb telescope heads for a special spot a million miles from Earth	Kentucky hardest hit as tornadoes leave dozens dead
Suspect’s parents also charged in Michigan school shooting	World scrambles to cope with coronavirus variant first seen in Botswana
Flooding strands thousands in British Columbia	Austria orders lockdown for the unvaccinated
Tanker explosion kills scores in Sierra Leone	Climate crisis brings world leaders to Scotland
Poaching tied to tuskless elephants in Mozambique	5 killed by bow-and-arrow attack in Norway
Lebanon slips into darkness as electricity grid shuts down	‘Squid Game’ sparks talk about inequality in South Korea
Volcanic eruption rocks Canary Islands	Faeroe Islands dolphin slaughter sparks debate over tradition
Pope Francis visiting impoverished Roma quarter in Slovakia	Hungry monkeys raid homes on Bali in Indonesia
Persian Gulf first stop for many Afghan evacuees	2 Pakistani children killed by bomb aimed at Chinese workers
Sicily reports highest temperature ever recorded in Europe	Thousands flee wildfires in Greece and Turkey
First group of interpreters fleeing Afghanistan arrive in U.S.	Death rates soar in Southeast Asia as virus wave spreads
Hunger and despair fuel rare protests in Cuba	Gunmen kill the president of Haiti in his bedroom
Collapse of condominium tower stuns Florida	Chocolate makers protected from lawsuit over child slavery in Ivory Coast
Nicaragua arrests opponents to president	Did a ‘killer robot’ attack soldiers in Libya?
China tests emotion-detection software on Uyghurs	Uruguay shows how to teach online in pandemic
Scores killed in Gaza as Israeli-Palestinian violence explodes	Dozens killed and hurt when rail bridge collapses in Mexico
Bulgaria probes for Russian link to explosions	India COVID-19 patients suffocate amid oxygen shortage
Russia masses troops and tanks on its border with Ukraine	Jordan’s king signals end to royal family feud
Ontario imposes third COVID-19 lockdown as cases surge	Many in Italy stay afloat by faking it on Amazon
Vietnam gets permission to sell edible insects to Europe	Brazil hospitals pushed to limit as COVID-19 death toll soars
Iceland shaken by a ‘swarm’ of earthquakes	Saudi Arabia’s crown prince tied to killing journalist
Bosnian villagers cheer as NASA lands rover on Mars	France sees baby bust after COVID-19 lockdown
Myanmar falls to a military coup d’etat	Taiwan warned that independence 'means war'
Sri Lanka official who promoted 'Covid syrup' tests positive	Joe the pigeon is spared the death sentence in Australia
Billions in ‘Brexit compensation’ demanded for Scotland	Volcano alerts issued on 2 islands in the Lesser Antilles
Mount Everest is 3 feet taller, says Nepal	Honduras president seeks storm aid and warns of migration surge
North Korea’s leader reported worried about COVID-19 and Biden	Ireland responds quickly to save a beloved zoo
Ethiopia conflict spills over its border	Denmark will kill all of its farmed mink because of coronavirus
Earthquake in Aegean Sea hits feuding neighbors	Dozens die in police brutality protests in Nigeria
2 West African presidents reject term limits	13 charged in plot to kidnap Michigan governor
Malta lets 7-year-old prince keep his shark’s tooth	Pandemic strands Pacific islanders 2,600 miles away from home
Caribbean nation of Barbados plans to fire the queen	Fires ravage refugee camp on Greece’s island of Lesbos
African migrants head for Canary Islands	Russians hold war games in the Bering Sea
Wisconsin and North Carolina lose convention booms to pandemic	United Arab Emirates agrees to ties with Israel
Lebanon’s people blame political leaders for massive explosion	Thousands in Germany protest coronavirus restrictions
California becomes the state hit hardest by Covid-19	Georgia's governor bars cities, counties from requiring face masks
Thailand denies monkeys are abused to harvest coconuts	Giant dust plume sweeps in from Sahara Desert
U.S. warns of pirates in the Gulf of Mexico	Statue of king who brutalized Congo is removed in Belgium
Peru is running out of oxygen for coronavirus patients	Protests over Minnesota death spread across nation
Bay of Bengal spawns another deadly cyclone	Top fugitive in Rwanda’s genocide is arrested
South Africa’s lockdown reveals a deadly habit	Canada bans assault-style weapons after Nova Scotia massacre
El Salvador authorizes use of lethal force against gangs	Melting ice reveals ancient Viking trade route in Norway
Boy in Estonia led neo-Nazis tied to bomb plots	NATO welcomes North Macedonia
U.S. charges Venezuela’s president with drug trafficking	U.S. charges Venezuela’s president with drug trafficking
Finland is still the ‘happiest’ nation	Syria’s civil war enters 10th year
Police fire tear gas at migrants on Greece-Turkey border	Gunfight between Haiti police and soldiers ends Carnival
Croatia’s attorney general steps down for being a Freemason	Russia trying to take over Belarus, leader says
New high temperature reported in Antarctica	Britain leaves the European Union
China locks down 50 million people as new virus spreads	Swarms of locusts plague East Africa

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