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  • A young boy is waving an Iranian flag next to the Iranian-made Zolfaghar missile on display at Azadi (Freedom) Square in western Tehran, Iran, on February 11, 2024, during a rally to mark the 45th anniversary of the victory of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. The Iranian Islamic Revolution, which led to the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979, replaced the Imperial State of Iran with the present-day Islamic Republic of Iran. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Politics

    Iran launches limited retaliation to U.S. attack on nuclear sites, indicating potential opening for de-escalation

    By David Rising, Jon Gambrell, and others
  • Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defense, speaks during the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, on Saturday, May 31, 2025. The conference runs through June 1. Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    US defense secretary warns Indo-Pacific allies that China’s army is ‘rehearsing for the real deal’

    By Tara Copp, David Rising, and others
  • TOPSHOT – A monk walks past a collapsed building in Mandalay on April 1, 2025, a few days after the deadly Myanmar earthquake. After a night sprawled out on cardboard panels under hastily erected plastic tarps, hundreds of Mandalay residents arose to another day of earthquake recovery, wondering when they can return safely to permanent shelter. (Photo by Sai Aung MAIN / AFP) (Photo by SAI AUNG MAINSAI AUNG MAIN/AFP via Getty Images)Environment

    Myanmar rescuers save 63-year-old woman from rubble 91 hours after being buried but hope of finding more earthquake survivors fades after death toll passes 2,700

    By David Rising and The Associated Press
  • TOPSHOT – People drive on a motorbike past a collapsed building in Mandalay on March 28, 2025, after an earthquake in central Myanmar. A powerful earthquake rocked central Myanmar on March 28, buckling roads in capital Naypyidaw, damaging buildings and forcing people to flee into the streets in neighbouring Thailand. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)Environment

    Myanmar death toll passes 2,000 as tragic tales mount: 200 Buddhist monks in a collapsed monastery, 50 children in a crumbled preschool, 700 Muslims praying at mosques

    By David Rising and The Associated Press
  • NAYPYIDAW, MYANMAR – MARCH 28: (—-EDITORIAL USE ONLY – MANDATORY CREDIT – ‘MYANMAR RED CROSS SOCIETY FACEBOOK ACCOUNT / HANDOUT’ – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS—-) Myanmar Red Cross Society workers transport an earthquake casualty in the compound of a hospital in Naypyidaw, Myanmar on March 28, 2025, after strong earthquake of 7.7 magnitude rocks Myanmar. A powerful earthquake rocked central Myanmar on March 28, buckling roads in capital Naypyidaw, damaging buildings and forcing people to flee into the streets in neighboring Thailand. (Photo by Myanmar Red Cross Facebook Account/Anadolu via Getty Images)Environment

    Myanmar hospitals overwhelmed as deaths from cataclysmic earthquake surge past 1,700: ‘The scale of deaths and injuries is not yet fully understood’

    By David Rising and The Associated Press
  • Joe Biden and Donald TrumpPolitics

    Since the pandemic, incumbents have been ousted in 40 of 54 elections in Western democracies — ‘A kind of electoral long COVID’

    By David Rising, Jill Lawless, and others
  • Buddhist pray with relatives of the victims of a mass killing attack gather for a Buddhist ceremony front on the Young Children’s Development Center in the rural town of Uthai Sawan, north eastern Thailand, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022. Thai police are investigating a report that a CNN crew inappropriately entered the daycare center where more than 20 preschoolers were slain as they were reporting on the attack, authorities said Sunday. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

    CNN pulls video of Thai massacre site and apologizes for filming crime scene without permission

    By David Rising and The Associated Press
  • Nurses perform timed breathing exercises on a COVID-19 patient on a ventilator in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at the la Timone hospital in Marseille, southern France, Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. The official global death toll from COVID-19 is on the verge of eclipsing 6 million — underscoring that the pandemic, now in its third year, is far from over.Health

    Global death toll nears 6 million as COVID-19 pandemic enters 3rd year

    By David Rising and The Associated Press
  • Donald TrumpPolitics

    Trump Says U.S. Destroyed Iranian Drone. Iran Says It Didn’t Happen

    By Amir Vahdat, David Rising, and others