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UK court finds men who stole $6 million gold toilet guilty

The artwork, titled, America, was stolen from the palace where Winston Churchill was born.

March 20, 2025
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
Canadian investigators say a Delta Air Lines regional jet that crashed while attempting to land at the Toronto Pearson International Airport last month was descending too quickly. The plane flipped over after the hard landing. None of the 80 people on board died but two passengers were seriously injured.

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  • World

Investigators say a Delta jet descended too quickly before Toronto crash last month

Canadian investigators released a preliminary report into last month's Delta Air Lines regional jet rollover landing crash in Toronto. The plane was descending too quickly before it hit the runway.

March 20, 2025
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  • David Schaper
Palestinian children walk amid rubble of destroyed houses after Israeli attacks in Jenin camp, the occupied West Bank, on Feb. 26.

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  • World

West Bank Palestinians displaced by Israel's military fear they'll never go home again

Even as the war in Gaza continues, Israel's prime minister says a "larger and more intense front could be opened" in the West Bank, where more than 40,000 have been displaced in the current operation.

March 20, 2025
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  • Kat Lonsdorf
Palestinians recite a prayer over the bodies of victims of Israeli overnight airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip, in front of the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia on Thursday.

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  • Middle East

Israel expands its ground offensive in Gaza as Hamas fires rockets back

The Israeli military expanded its ground offensive in Gaza, and killed at least 80 Palestinians in a new wave of strikes Thursday. Hamas fired its first rockets since Israel broke a recent ceasefire.

March 20, 2025
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  • Anas Baba,
  • Kat Lonsdorf,
  • and 1 more
Student protesters gather inside their encampment on the Columbia University campus in New York on April 29, 2024.

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  • Politics

Weaponizing antisemitism makes students 'less safe,' says drafter of definition

Kenneth Stern, who drafted a widely used definition of antisemitism, says the Trump administration is using antisemitism claims to stifle speech and debate on the Middle East on college campuses.

March 20, 2025
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By:
  • Kaity Kline
Jiang Hui, whose mother was on the missing MH370 Malaysia Airlines passenger jet, wears a shirt "Remembering 239 Lives, MH370" as he talks to media on the 11th anniversary of the jet going missing on March 8, 2025, in Beijing, China.

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  • Asia

Malaysia approves a new search for MH370 wreckage in the Indian Ocean

The Boeing 777 plane vanished from radar shortly after taking off on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 people. The plane headed south to the far-southern Indian Ocean, where it is believed to have crashed.

March 20, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Canada Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly responds to a question during a news conference on tariffs, Wednesday, March 12, 2025, in Ottawa.

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  • Asia

Canada says China executed four Canadians earlier this year

Beijing's embassy in Ottawa said the executions were due to drug crimes and noted that China does not recognize dual citizenship.

March 20, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Rep. Greg Landsman, D-Ohio, is among a group of lawmakers who signed a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking whether a database of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia had been deleted.

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  • World

Trump admin. cuts funding for program that tracked Ukrainian children abducted by Russia

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Rep. Greg Landsman, a lawmaker who signed a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking whether a database of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia had been deleted.

March 19, 2025
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  • Ailsa Chang,
  • Tinbete Ermyas,
  • and 1 more
In this picture, taken from Israel's southern border with the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers patrol a street in northern Gaza on Wednesday. The Israeli military says it's launched a new ground offensive in Gaza, a day after Israel broke a ceasefire with a punishing series of airstrikes that killed more than 400 people.

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  • Middle East

Israel has launched a new ground invasion into Gaza after breaking ceasefire

Israel's military launched a new ground offensive in Gaza, sending troops into areas they retreated from during a two-month ceasefire. This comes a day after airstrikes killed more than 400 people.

March 19, 2025
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  • Russell Lewis,
  • Kat Lonsdorf,
  • and 1 more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a  joint press conference with the Finnish president at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki on Wednesday. Ukraine's President Zelensky and First Lady Zelenska are on an official visit to Finland.

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  • World

Zelenskyy and Trump speak after Trump's call with Putin

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke for about an hour with President Trump on Wednesday, following Trump's call on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

March 19, 2025
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  • Nick Spicer and
  • Eleanor Beardsley
The Trump administration has put journalists at government-funded broadcasters, including Prague-based Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFERL), on leave on March 15 as it froze funding to them.

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  • Media

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty sues Trump administration over canceled contract

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a government-backed overseas broadcaster, sued the Trump administration in an attempt to get it to release funds appropriated by Congress.

March 19, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
Former U.S. Agency for International Development employees terminated after the Trump administration effectively dismantled the agency collect their personal belongings at USAID headquarters on Feb. 27 in Washington, D.C.

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  • News

Musk, DOGE violated Constitution, judge says. And, when egg prices might drop

A federal judge ruled that Elon Musk and DOGE likely violated the Constitution when shuttering the USAID. And, a look at when egg prices are likely to drop.

March 19, 2025
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  • Brittney Melton
Children look on as people walk amid the rubble of a building destroyed in an overnight Israeli strike in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Israel's deadly strikes on Gaza drew global condemnation, as it said it had "no alternative" other than to resume military operations in order to bring home hostages.

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  • Middle East

Why did Israel resume the war in Gaza?

Israel launched deadly strikes in Gaza to pressure Hamas to agree to a new ceasefire. Hamas isn't budging, and more than half of recently freed hostages oppose the renewed war. Why is Israel doing it?

March 19, 2025
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  • Daniel Estrin
A U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II multi-role combat airplane flies over Ramstein Air Base during a day of fighter plane exercises on June 6, 2024, in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany.

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  • World

Trump's handling of Ukraine and tariffs has NATO rethinking the U.S.-made F-35 fighter

The F-35 was meant as a one-size-fits-all fighter that could be used across NATO. But strained U.S.-Europe relations are giving some member countries second thoughts about the U.S.-built plane.

March 19, 2025
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  • Scott Neuman
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends the High-Level Segment of the 58th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025.

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  • World

Sexual misconduct allegations in UN missions topped 100 in 2024

The United Nations has long been in the spotlight over allegations of child rape and other sexual abuses by its peacekeepers, especially by those based in Congo and the Central African Republic.

March 19, 2025
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