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Mar 27, 2026 - World

Police say a stabbing attack at a school in northern Chile left a member of staff dead and four other people injured

Mar 27, 2026 - World

A Florida man charged with planting a bomb near the U.S. military's Central Command has fled to China and his sister is under arrest in the plot, according to federal prosecutors.

Mar 27, 2026 - World

• UN votes to describe slave trade as ‘gravest crime against humanity’Despite resistance from states who had role in chattel slavery, many feel this is an idea whose time has comeJohn Mahama knows a thing or two about beating the establishment. On Wednesday, less than two years after completing a remarkable comeback as Ghana’s president with a landslide defeat of the ruling party candidate, he rallied the world to ratify a landmark vote against transatlantic chattel slavery, despite major opposition from the same western entities that drove it for centuries.The resolution to declare the practice as “the gravest crime against humanity” passed with a decisive majority at the UN general assembly and has been largely welcomed across Africa. Yet the details of the tally reveal a world still deeply divided on the gravity of the sin of enslaving more than 15 million people as chattel over the course of 400 years. Continue reading...

Mar 27, 2026 - World

China is launching investigations into U.S. trade practices, a tit-for-tat move ahead of President Trump's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in May.

Mar 27, 2026 - World

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been discharged from a hospital in the capital and will continue serving a 27-year sentence for a coup attempt at his residence in an upscale gated community