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ALAMEDA, Calif. — California marked a grim milestone Sunday as the number of acres burned during a record wildfire year surpassed 4 million, officials said. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, didn’t provide an exact amount of land that had been scorched this year, but it said in a daily […]

The body of a former major league baseball player was found Saturday at the Grand Canyon, according to police and local reports. The man, Charles Haeger, 37, is believed to have died by suicide after having become a suspect in the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend, Danielle Breed, who went by her maiden name, Long, […]

Hundreds of people have died in the outbreak of war over Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave that belongs to Azerbaijan but is populated by ethnic Armenians. YEREVAN — Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other on Monday of attacking civilian areas on a ninth day of fighting, the deadliest in the South Caucasus region for more than 25 […]

Russian investigators said Saturday they were looking into “a possible ecological catastrophe” in the eastern Kamchatka region, after scores of dead sea creatures washed up in one of it bays and surfers reported burns to their eyes and throats. Images of dead seals, octopi, starfish and urchins on the Khalaktyrsky Beach in the Avacha Bay […]

Frustrated with a lack of progress in talks, Prime Minister Boris Johnson introduced his own legislation to solve the Irish border question. LONDON — The European Union on Thursday launched legal action against the United Kingdom over London’s plan to unilaterally breach a Brexit withdrawal agreement both sides signed last year. In the latest setback […]

Rescuers are concerned the northern bottlenose whales will be distressed by the noise from next week’s NATO exercise LONDON — It’s not quite a simple as herding sheep. A flotilla of boats has gathered in a loch in northwest Scotland on Thursday to help herd a group of lost northern bottlenose whales and direct them […]

The woman died at a hospital after an apparent head injury, and the search for a male suspect was underway, police said An American woman who worked for the United States Embassy in Ukraine has died after she was found injured in a Kyiv park on Wednesday. Kyiv National Police said in a statement that […]