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Pacific Island leaders urge rich countries to do more to help control climate change

Fox News Pacific Island leaders criticized rich countries on Monday for not doing enough to control climate change despite being responsible for much of the problem, and for making money off of loans provided to vulnerable nations to mitigate the effects. Leaders and representatives from Pacific Island nations demanded at a U.N. climate change conference…

Finnish military training jet crashes, forcing pilots to eject

Fox News A military training jet crashed in central Finland and Monday, the Finnish Air Force said, adding the pilots ejected. The British made single-engine Hawk aircraft crashed south of Keuruu, which sits some 180 miles north of Helsinki. The air force said on Twitter that the pilots were undergoing health checks. Police said they…

Powerful cyclone along Burma’s western coast injures hundreds, at least 6 dead

Fox News Rescuers on Monday evacuated about 1,000 people trapped by seawater 12 feet deep along western Burma’s coast after a powerful cyclone injured hundreds and cut off communications. Six deaths were reported, but the true impact was not yet clear in one of Asia’s least developed countries. Strong winds injured more than 700 of…

Series of mysterious tremors in Denmark puzzle scientists

Fox News A series of minor tremors recorded on the Danish Baltic island of Bornholm Saturday has puzzled scientists, who now say they were caused by “acoustic pressure waves from an unknown source.” At first the tremors were thought to have been caused by earthquakes. Then, seismologists theorized that they originated from controlled explosions in…

Israel, Cyprus working on deal to build natural gas processing plant, pipeline in Cyprus

Fox News Cyprus and Israel are working on a deal to build a pipeline that will convey natural gas from both countries to the east Mediterranean island nation, where it will be liquefied for export by ship to Europe and potentially elsewhere, the Cypriot energy minister said Monday. Minister Giorgos Papanastasiou said Monday he would…

Take that! Philippines sends China message on contested islands as tussle brews

Fox News The Philippines have looked to deter Chinese aggression around islands it claims as its own in the South China Sea by putting up buoys in a show of ownership, as Beijing continues to threaten its sovereignty in the region. Five buoys carrying the Filipino flag were set up around the Spratly Islands within…

Children forced to starve in hot sun as part of doomsday cult mass suicide: reports

Fox News A Christian doomsday cult in Kenya targeted children to die first in its final days, starving them to death before the adults followed through with the same plan. Police are investigating what appeared to be a mass suicide in the southeast region of Kenya, where so far 201 bodies have been found in…

Madeleine McCann parents release video on missing daughter’s 20th birthday

Fox News The parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann released a statement on her 20th birthday Sunday. McCann was abducted in 2007, when she was 3 years old, from a ground-floor apartment where her family was staying on vacation in Praia da Luz, Portugal. “Happy birthday Madeleine. Still missing. Still very much missed. Still…

Two Rembrandt portraits, overlooked for nearly 200 years, are unearthed

Washington Post The small, oval-shaped paintings were last seen in 1824, when they were privately purchased. “They’re extraordinary,” said the auctioneer who rediscovered them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/05/15/rembrandt-portraits-discovered-christies/

Russian mercenary chief offered to give up Russian troop positions to Ukraine: Report

Fox News Russia’s Wagner mercenary group offered to give up Russian troop positions in exchange for Ukrainian forces pulling back from a city where Wagner was taking heavy casualties in late January, according to reports. Wagner Group owner Yevgeniy Prigozhin made the offer through back channels to Ukrainian intelligence, according to a trove of leaked…