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Mar 27, 2026 - World

A United Nations inquiry Friday urged the Syrian government to investigate senior security officials involved in violations committed during sectarian clashes last summer in which at least 1,700 people died, the vast majority from the Druze religious minority.

Mar 27, 2026 - World

The 69 members of the security forces who died in a military plane crash in Colombia were honored Friday through their photographs, arranged before the altar of a church during a solemn ceremony held in the capital, Bogota.

Mar 27, 2026 - World

A whale that was stranded for days in shallow water at a Baltic Sea resort in Germany has swum free from a sandbank overnight after a last-ditch rescue effort. But it isn't out of danger yet.

Mar 27, 2026 - World

Mexico's government said in a new report on Friday that it has identified signs of life for a third of the country's 130,000 registered missing people, an announcement that was quickly criticized by a number of search groups which called it an attempt to undermine the depth of Mexico's disappearance crisis.

Mar 27, 2026 - World

Two convoy vessels that were supposed to get to Havana by Wednesday have made it to Cuba, says US Coast GuardTwo sailing boats that went missing while carrying humanitarian aid to Cuba have safely reached the Caribbean island, the US Coast Guard said on Friday.Earlier in the day Cuba’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, had said his country would do everything it could to save the people on the two boats that disappeared while travelling to Cuba from Mexico. Continue reading...