President-elect Donald Trump takes office with the world on a precipice. His commitment to fixing three major global dangers could secure him not one, but three Nobel Peace Prizes.

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A Finnish court today denied a request for the release of an oil tanker suspected by police of damaging an undersea power ...

The Fehmarnbelt tunnel between Fehmarn and Lolland is intended to drastically reduce travel times for trains and cars. An ...

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The Russian Armed Forces continue to advance in the Pokrovsky and Kurakhovsky directions, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have ...

Midori Kato is the last original member of the cast of “Sazae-san,” a cartoon series that premiered in 1969 and never quite joined the modern world. Lena Schilling, the youngest lawmaker in ...

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